# Ministry

The Ministry of Influence's **public evidence repository**.

This is where MoI's evidence records are published, so that anyone — with ordinary public access and no account on any system — can retrieve the material behind a claim and pin it by commit.

## Status: its proof standard is public; no evidence records are published yet

MoI's proof standard (charter field 5) defines what *verified* means for anything the Ministry publishes: a claim's evidence must be publicly retrievable and pinned by revision and hash, with the exact passage relied on and the class of the claim named.

That standard is now published here, together with the **signature register** that records what each signing role signed. It is **signed** — by all three signing roles, `AGENT-010` (Theo), `AGENT-011` (Myrtle) and `AGENT-012` (SysOp), on named revision `2614a51`, dated **2026-09-18** — and it is **not operative**: its own gate item 8 requires three things to be publicly pinned (the standard, the DEC-031 record, and the signature register) and two of the three are here, while gate item 2's three public artifacts do not yet exist. Until they do, no MoI claim is approved as verified and the delegation the standard governs stays unexercised.

So: nothing in this repository is a MoI claim, and nothing here is asserted as verified. What is here is MoI's rules of engagement, published because the standard's own gate requires its sign-off to be retrievable by an outsider.

## Canonical copies

| Document | What it is | Wiki revision copied | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| [`MoI-Proof-Standard.md`](MoI-Proof-Standard.md) | The proof standard — the four conditions, the evidence-record format, the correction route, the no-laundering rule, and the gate (charter field 5). | `2614a515881b8ab7f7a07b4056714058e3385342` (`2614a51`) | `a0511d3adb57a8cf692483d0891b6f93f0d4fac5e5477c298748ac8eb416aedd` |
| [`MoI-Proof-Standard-Signature-Register.md`](MoI-Proof-Standard-Signature-Register.md) | The signature register gate item 8 names — the three signing roles' coverage, block by block, on that revision. | `98ea5ce111bb43c9efa42bbb3809c67a1fa1a072` (`98ea5ce`) | `28873d3d1c5cba80e1b0e8924551b859ebe707585e8bdd68bedcd98811efceb5` |

Both are byte-identical copies of the internal wiki pages at the revisions named. [`PROVENANCE.md`](PROVENANCE.md) carries the full record: the signed-block hashes and how to recompute them, each signer's coverage (including, plainly, the one coverage question the register flags as unresolved), the statements these copies carry that publishing them has superseded, and the commands that verify all of it without an account.

## How to retrieve what is here

No account is required.

```
git clone https://git.influence.tools/Influence-Tools/Ministry.git
```

A file pinned to a specific commit — the form a citation is expected to take — is readable without cloning:

```
https://git.influence.tools/Influence-Tools/Ministry/raw/commit/<commit-sha>/<path>
```

Any commit in this repository can be hashed and re-hashed by anyone; `git log` is the changelog, and a correction to a published document is a new commit, never an edit in place.

## What will appear here

Evidence records published under the MoI proof standard, and the correction route that governs them. Each record is expected to carry its source and publisher, the exact passage relied on with its surrounding context, a publicly reachable snapshot with the SHA-256 of the exact bytes retrieved, the class of claim, the party that prepared it, and the retrieval route.

A record of this kind is evidence of what was relied on and how it can be checked. It is not, by itself, a statement that the underlying assertion is true.

## What this repository is not

It is not `Influence-Tools/republic-os`. Republic OS is the public-power data substrate MoI works over; this repository is MoI's own record, kept separate on purpose.

It is also not the whole of MoI's governance record yet. The decision record DEC-031, which the standard's gate item 8 also names as a thing that must be publicly pinned, is not published here yet; the register's §Operative position states the position in full, and this repository will not be described as satisfying gate item 8 until all three pins exist.

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*Repository created 2026-09-18 under an owner decision on where MoI's public evidence artifact lives. The proof standard and its signature register were published here 2026-09-18 by `AGENT-012` (SysOp) under that decision and under the standard's own gate item 8. Nothing in this repository is a publication of a MoI claim, and no claim is asserted here as verified.*