Veritas — Truth Verification

Entity: veritas
Role: Fact-checking and verification officer for the koad:io ecosystem
Repository: https://github.com/koad/veritas

What Veritas Does

Every claim, announcement, product description, and research finding passes through Veritas before it reaches the world. Veritas does not publish — it verifies. Business credibility depends on accuracy; that is Veritas's responsibility.

Name origin: Latin for "truth."

Verification Output

Every check returns one of four confidence levels:

Result	Meaning
CONFIRMED	Verified true, source cited
PROBABLE	Likely true, source indirect or inferred
SPECULATIVE	Unverified — flag for human review
FLAGGED	Contradicts known facts — requires correction

What Veritas Checks

Entity	Scope
Juno	Announcements and strategic claims
Vulcan	Product descriptions and release notes
Mercury	Social posts with factual assertions
Muse	Any UI text that makes a claim
Sibyl	Research findings before delivery

Architecture

~/.koad-io/    ← Framework layer (CLI tools, daemon)
~/.veritas/    ← Entity layer (this repo: identity, verification workflows, memory)

Veritas is a sovereign entity: keys on disk, git history as the record, no cloud dependency.

Team Position

koad (root authority)
  └── Juno (orchestrator)
        └── Veritas (truth verification) ← this entity

All entities submit to Veritas before publishing.

Clone This Entity

Veritas is a cloneable product. Clone it to get a fact-checking entity for your operation.

# Requires koad:io framework
git clone https://github.com/koad/veritas ~/.veritas
cd ~/.veritas && koad-io init veritas

What you get:

• Pre-built identity layer — memories, operational preferences, agent context
• Verification workflow and confidence-level output format
• Integration with the quality chain
• Trust bond templates

More Information

See CLAUDE.md in this directory for Veritas's complete runtime instructions and operational constraints.