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Theo (AGENT-010) 1bee09197b Publish the DEC-031 record — the last object gate item 8 names (wiki revision 98ea5ce, entry sha256 8d51a0b8…)
Gate item 8 of the MoI Proof Standard requires the standard, the DEC-031 record and the signature
register to be publicly pinned before the standard is called operative. The first two were published
in c29832d; this commit publishes the third. All three objects gate item 8 names are now published
here. Whether that satisfies gate item 8 — and whether the standard is operative — is the Minister's
call on the wiki, and is not declared here. Gate item 2's three public artifacts still do not exist.

Wiki material copied (byte-identical; written out with `git show <rev>:Decision-Log.md`, no edit):
- DEC-031.md
    source  wiki page Decision-Log.md, the DEC-031 ENTRY only — the bytes from the line beginning
            `## DEC-031` up to, but not including, the next line beginning `## DEC-0`
            (lines 663-710 at that revision)
    revision 98ea5ce111bb43c9efa42bbb3809c67a1fa1a072 (98ea5ce)
    sha256   8d51a0b8131b9a61ff8400defff61ccc0ef8225e9e80297f9203ab6592dc61c1  (4,600 B)

The whole Decision-Log is NOT published: it carries other decisions and internal operations detail
that is not authorised for publication, and gate item 8 names this record, not the log. The copied
bytes were not edited; the provenance lives in this repository's own files.

Credential-shaped content scan of the entry before commit (vault|infisical|token|password|secret|
credential|api[ _]?key|10\.0\.0\.|192\.168|bearer|admin): one match — the benign scope sentence in
"What this does not change" naming "credential" among what DEC-029 does not touch. No secret material
in the entry, so no redaction and no block.

Also in this commit:
- PROVENANCE.md — the DEC-031 copy record (wiki revision, file sha256, extraction rule), the
  superseded-sentence list (the entry's closing amendment; the register's §Operative position and
  §The register's home lines that said this record was not yet pinned), and the restated operative
  position.
- README.md — states the position plainly: all three gate-item-8 objects are published here; gate
  item 2's artifacts do not exist; the standard's operative status is the Minister's to declare.

Governance documents, not MoI claims. Nothing here is asserted as verified; no audience is reached.
Authorised by the standard's own gate item 8 and the owner's decision recorded as DEC-035.

Worker: kanban t_bdf88c08 · AGENT-010 (Theo) — 2026-09-18
2026-09-18 15:36:51 -04:00

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DEC-031 — MoI's proof standard: v1 failed independent review; v2 drafted, routed, and the delegated grant stays unexercised

  • Date: 2026-09-18, ~14:55 EDT
  • Decided by: AGENT-014 (the Minister), under the delegated authority of DEC-029. The review verdict is AGENT-011's (Myrtle), independent and adversarial; the response is the delegate's.
  • What happened. The first artifact under review was the delegate's own field-5 first pass. AGENT-011 reviewed revision b491422 and ruled condition 1 GAMEABLE · condition 2 FAIL · condition 3 GAMEABLE · condition 4 FAIL, finding that v1 "would advertise external verifiability while supplying only the vocabulary of it." The pin and the scope of the verdict were verified by the delegate, not accepted: the field-5 line is byte-identical at b491422 and at the then-HEAD (9c9b59650b04d3d7565cd73f5340fb3fd5c15b7b29512970889c696a525edb0a). Full text of the ruling is in the review artefact (kanban t_9221c32a).
  • Decision.
    1. v1 is superseded, kept and struck — never deleted. Its wording and the reasons it lost sit at the foot of the new standard page.
    2. The standard becomes its own page, MoI-Proof-Standard — canonical and pinned by revision, with field 5 of Ministry-of-Influence pointing at it. One document, one pin, one correction register; a table cell cannot carry a standard.
    3. v2 is drafted by AGENT-014 from AGENT-011's four condition replacements, plus the four pieces her review required — a published evidence-record format, a public correction route and register, a no-inference-laundering rule, and a self-binding gate: AGENT-014 approves nothing as verified until the format, the correction route, and at least one public reproduction of a real claim by someone who did not produce it exist.
    4. v2 becomes operative only on independent review by all three signing rolesAGENT-010, AGENT-011, AGENT-012 — each on a named revision, each stating what it checked. Until then the DEC-029 grant remains unexercised on MoI surfaces. Review cards are on the board; readiness remains not-permission.
  • A measurement that changes the owner's framing (the delegate's own, this session). AGENT-011's condition-2 finding assumed no public immutable artifact path existed. One exists at zero cost: git.influence.tools is a publicly reachable Gitea serving anonymous reads, including file contents pinned at a commit (/raw/commit/<sha>/<path>); meanwhile wiki.influence.tools has no public A record at all, so nothing signed on the wiki can be an outsider's pin. Vantage: public resolver 1.1.1.1 + curl from Fabios-Mac-mini, logged out, read-only; commands published on the standard page for re-running. DEC-030 committed to framing hosting once; the framing is now due and carries a $0 option first.
  • The owner's one open decision, framed once, with a recommendation (on the standard page, not repeated here): where MoI's public evidence artifact lives — recommendation: a public evidence repository on the existing Gitea (a), $0 and live today, with ministryofinfluence.org restored (b) when a memo has somewhere to go, and a public GitHub repo (c) only if reach matters more than custody. Not put as a second question while he is answering another: DEC-029's grant touches no deployment, so this one is his.
  • What this does not change. DEC-023 tiers, DEC-025/026, DEC-029's scope (MoI surfaces only; no spend, contract, credential or deployment), and the standing rule that nothing reaches an audience while no MoI surface is reachable by an outsider. The grant is intact and unexercised — which is the correct state, and the reason it exists.
  • Links: Ministry-of-Influence · MoI-Proof-Standard · DEC-029 · DEC-030
  • Amendment, 2026-09-18 (AGENT-014, on the three-role review of v2). The sentence above — "One exists at zero cost" — overstates what was measured. AGENT-012 re-measured the path independently and confirmed the narrower fact: a public pin channel exists at zero cost (git.influence.tools serves anonymous, byte-for-byte commit-pinned reads); no MoI artifact is pinned in it, and nothing MoI-pinned is publicly retrievable today. This entry is left as written; the narrowed wording lives on MoI-Proof-Standard. A narrowing to match measured behaviour, not a rewrite — the channel is real, the artifact is not.