CAT-ALIGN-001: align veip-verifier-core with controlling Veraxis category thesis - #1
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Add the standard category role block and an explicit statement of the verifier's claim boundary. A PASS verifies the structural and integrity properties of a downstream VEIP Evidence Pack. It does not by itself establish that upstream institutional authority was legitimate, correctly interpreted, properly admitted or currently applicable unless those properties are themselves covered by the verified inputs or profile. A structurally sound Evidence Pack is evidence about a binding, not the origin of the authority it records. Documentation only, additive. Verification logic, CLI contract, exit codes, schema, security model and version alignment are unchanged, and the existing verifier claim ceiling is preserved rather than widened. Signed-off-by: Arkadiy Miteiko <am@veraxis.io> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Pkw68qW3iRaeJsiMPBEPvW
State the bound explicitly rather than by implication. A cryptographically valid Evidence Pack establishes only the bounded cryptographic and structural integrity properties actually verified under the applicable schema/profile, and not truth, completeness, institutional validity, correct upstream interpretation, consequence occurrence or observation coverage. Restrictive documentation change only. Verification logic, CLI contract, exit codes, schema and security model unchanged. Signed-off-by: Arkadiy Miteiko <am@veraxis.io> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Pkw68qW3iRaeJsiMPBEPvW
Independent evaluators reading this README in isolation reported that it 'never defines its function directly' for VEIP, leaving a required category answer unobtainable from the artifact alone. Expand the acronym and state VEIP's role and its three explicit non-roles in the role block. Documentation only, additive. Verification logic, CLI contract, exit codes, schema and security model unchanged; the verifier claim ceiling is untouched. Signed-off-by: Arkadiy Miteiko <am@veraxis.io> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Pkw68qW3iRaeJsiMPBEPvW
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Scope
Documentation only, additive.
README.mdgains a role block and a claim-boundary subsection near the top. Nothing is removed or reworded.Why
A verifier that returns PASS is the single easiest surface in the Veraxis stack to over-read. The existing README is careful about what the repository is not — not a registry, not a certification body, not a policy engine — but it does not say what a PASS itself does and does not establish. Without that sentence, "the Evidence Pack verified" slides into "the authorization was legitimate."
The added subsection states the boundary in the work order's terms:
with the corollary that a structurally sound Evidence Pack is evidence about a binding, not the origin of the authority it records, and does not certify its own upstream validity.
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README.md— 18 insertions, 0 deletionsWhat is explicitly preserved
0/2/3)veip-specand version-alignment ruleClaim impact
Restrictive only. No conformance, certification, maturity, adoption or deployment claim is made or broadened, and no enterprise adoption is asserted for any party. The role block carries its own qualifier pointing at the repository's existing scope sections.
No runtime change
No verification logic, canonicalization, CLI behavior, exit code, schema, test or fixture was changed. The diff touches one Markdown file.
Validation
make check— the structural + schema gate CI runs as part ofmake ci:e8b985920b60ba74f2e0e014ee107a5c4937b1fc:OK: schema JSON parses/OK: checks passed, exit 0OK: schema JSON parses/OK: checks passed, exit 0make test(pytest) could not be run in this environment —pytestis not installed here and the package is not pip-installed. That is an environment limitation, disclosed rather than worked around; CI runs the fullmake ciacross Python 3.10/3.11/3.12. The change adds no Python, so no test outcome can be affected by it.e8b985920b60ba74f2e0e014ee107a5c4937b1fc6df68f5667ea283b59d5e9cad51ae9cd41bc4b12Controlling thesis
veraxis-protocol/institutional-continuity#2 — Veraxis Category Thesis v1.0. Canonical location after merge: https://github.com/veraxis-protocol/institutional-continuity/blob/main/THESIS.md
DCO
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