Merge scoring into progress tracking

How far up the trust ladder

Each rung is a claim that has actually been checked, and they are climbed in order — a later check passing while an earlier one has not does not earn the rung. This mutation has reached Unverified proposal.

1. ✓AI proposalA model asserts this change is beneficial.Not trust on its own
2. ✓Unverified proposalRecorded, but nothing is checked yet.Not trust on its own
3. 03Source verifiedThe referenced commit and digest resolve.Not trust on its own
4. 04Build verifiedProvenance shows how the artifact was produced.
5. 05Tests passedThe adopter’s suite ran green in a sandbox.
6. 06Policy passedSecurity and licence gates were satisfied.
7. 07Maintainer approvedA human with authority said yes.
8. 08Adopted alleleThe capability now lives in this genome.

Evidence checklist

The six gates a mutation clears before it can be offered onward. Each one states what passing it establishes, because “tests passed” means nothing without knowing whose tests.

• ✗

  Source digest

  not clearedSource verified

  The referenced commit and content digest resolve to the same bytes.

• ✗

  Build provenance

  not clearedBuild verified

  An attestation shows how the artifact was produced, and by what.

• ✗

  Tests

  not clearedTests passed

  The adopter's own suite ran green against the change in a sandbox.

• ✗

  Security policy

  not clearedPolicy passed

  No new advisory was introduced and the policy gate was satisfied.

• ✓

  Licence

  clearedPolicy passed

  The change's licence is compatible with the adopting genome's.

• ✗

  Maintainer approval

  not clearedMaintainer approved

  A human with authority over the adopting project said yes.

• ◌AIIAI-inferred. Proposed by a model and not yet verified by test or human.Model proposed collapsing the scoring and progress genes. Unverified.2027-02-11

Measured phenotype

What the change did when it ran, against what it did before. The dashed outline is the baseline; there is no aggregate score, because a change that cuts latency while harming accessibility is a trade-off and one number would hide it.

The change itself

An illustrative before and after, pinned to content digests. The digests are the authoritative part; the excerpt is there to make the shape of the change legible.

Reference digest

sha256:117ad2cc

Alternate digest

sha256:117ad2cc

Commit

commit:c31f7ba902

Test suites touched

0

// two genes, two boundaries

// one gene, per the model

Who this applies to

0 relatives are eligible and 0 would need manual review, at a parent compatibility of 0.30. Eligibility is not adoption: every one of them decides for itself.

Provenance

Claims bound to immutable artifacts. An attestation is not a promise that the change is good — it is a signed statement about how it was produced, read here as SLSA, in-toto, CycloneDX pedigree and W3C PROV triples.

Decision

A decision is itself a record: attributable, reasoned and signed. Choose one to see what would be written on behalf of KEYLIT Accessibility.