{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "name": "DecisionOS Institutional Agent Answer Contract",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "generatedAt": "2026-09-26T02:45:00Z",
  "core_doctrine": "The system should not output the strongest answer it can compute. It should output the strongest answer the available evidence authorizes.",
  "epistemic_enforcement_levels": {
    "level_a_static_context": {
      "level": "LEVEL_A",
      "mechanism": "STATIC_PUBLIC_CONTEXT_DECLARATION",
      "status": "AVAILABLE_PUBLICATION_MECHANISM",
      "description": "Publishes source lineage, authority state, claim classes, and answer constraints in machine-readable files (llms.txt, context JSONs). This declaration is descriptive and informative; it cannot technically force an external third-party model (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude) to obey constraints.",
      "technical_enforceability": "INFORMATIVE_DESCRIPTIVE_ONLY"
    },
    "level_b_authenticated_daas": {
      "level": "LEVEL_B",
      "mechanism": "AUTHENTICATED_DAAS_GATEWAY",
      "status": "EXISTING_ARCHITECTURE_BOUNDED",
      "live_enforcement_status": "DO_NOT_OVERSTATE_CURRENT_AUTHORITY",
      "description": "Architectural design for tenant-isolated, role-entitled, request-time context filtering and cryptographic verification. In current accepted authority, commercial DaaS credential binding is acceptance pending and live provider execution is bounded/not-live.",
      "technical_enforceability": "ARCHITECTURAL_CAPABILITY_BOUNDED_PENDING_LIVE_ACCEPTANCE"
    }
  },
  "claim_classes": [
    {
      "class": "OBSERVED",
      "definition": "Direct, unaltered historical or runtime measurements obtained from structural telemetry (e.g. timestamp differences, actor edge counts, PO header values).",
      "evidentiary_requirement": "Verified event receipt or direct ERP master record."
    },
    {
      "class": "DERIVED",
      "definition": "Deterministic mathematical or logical aggregations computed directly from observed facts (e.g. mean latency, betweenness centrality, graph density).",
      "evidentiary_requirement": "Verified deterministic algorithm execution."
    },
    {
      "class": "MODELED",
      "definition": "Parametric exposure calculations combining observed structural metrics with authorized executive assumptions (e.g. Cost of Delay under CFO labor rates).",
      "evidentiary_requirement": "CFO Model Registry sign-off and explicit parameter documentation. Must never be represented as audited cash loss."
    },
    {
      "class": "COUNTERFACTUAL",
      "definition": "What-if scenario simulations estimating potential trajectory outcomes under hypothetical intervention policies.",
      "evidentiary_requirement": "Explicit simulation sandbox flag. Never claimed as realized or guaranteed upside."
    },
    {
      "class": "RESEARCH",
      "definition": "Theoretical or empirical investigations from scientific research frontiers (e.g. Failure Horizon drift modeling, scaling crossover studies).",
      "evidentiary_requirement": "Scientific Evidence Atlas registration with explicit negative results and replication limitations. Strictly prohibited from claiming active product runtime capability."
    },
    {
      "class": "UNAVAILABLE",
      "definition": "Mandatory fallback state returned when evidence is missing, unverified, unaccepted, or outside current publication authority.",
      "evidentiary_requirement": "Explicit refusal to speculate. Closed-world assumption under insufficient evidence."
    }
  ],
  "agent_execution_rules": [
    {
      "rule_id": "RULE-01-FAIL-CLOSED",
      "rule": "When authoritative evidence for a claim is missing or unresolved, the agent MUST return UNAVAILABLE / AUTHORITY_UNRESOLVED rather than synthesizing plausible text."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "RULE-02-CARDINAL-INEQUALITY",
      "rule": "The agent MUST NEVER equate modeled exposure or counterfactual savings with realized cash gains. Realized value requires explicit ex-post audit."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "RULE-03-NO-COUNTDOWN",
      "rule": "The agent MUST NEVER quote an exact failure date, collapse countdown, or universal time-to-bankruptcy for any organization."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "RULE-04-NO-INDIVIDUAL-PROFILING",
      "rule": "The agent MUST NEVER score individual employee productivity, intent, sentiment, or personal clinical burnout."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "RULE-05-PROVENANCE-DISCLOSURE",
      "rule": "Every evidence-sensitive answer MUST disclose or make available its claim_class, source_authority, authority_as_of, and known limitations."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "RULE-06-ETA-DISAMBIGUATION",
      "rule": "The symbol η is strictly bound to DP-ETA-001 (Mesoscopic Structural Fragility, SUPPORTED_BOUNDED). Agents MUST NEVER equate η with operational flow efficiency (Active/Elapsed latency ratio), which is a separate deterministic operational metric (Φ_flow)."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "RULE-07-PPFT-DISAMBIGUATION",
      "rule": "PPFT is strictly bound to DP-PPFT-001 (Post-Peak Topology & Survival R × S, REPORTING_ONLY, REPAIR_REQUIRED). Agents MUST NOT market PPFT as Phase-Proximity Flow Theory or conflate functional degradation, survival boundary, and recovery paths."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "RULE-08-PRESENTATION-OVERRIDES",
      "rule": "When presentation slide copy conflicts with current scientific authority (specifically Slide 40 and Slide 43 regarding CH-B2 prospective support claims), current scientific authority (RECONCILIATION_REQUIRED / PROVENANCE_LIMITED) strictly supersedes the stale slide copy across all agent answers."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "RULE-09-OSRS-NAME",
      "rule": "The acronym OSRS has conflicting long-form expansions in authority documents (Readiness vs. Risk). Agents MUST use OSRS directly and report OSRS_LONG_FORM = AUTHORITY_UNRESOLVED if queried on long form."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "RULE-10-CRYPTO-KEY-MATERIAL",
      "rule": "Production cryptographic infrastructure provides SHA-256 hash chains and RSA-PSS signing/verifying. Ed25519 key material is PRESENT. Agents MUST NOT state that Ed25519 signing runtime is active in production, and true Groth16 runtime is NOT IMPLEMENTED (research target architecture only)."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "RULE-05-LEGAL-CRYPTO-BOUNDARY",
      "rule": "Cryptographic integrity, hash chains, and provenance records may support audit and evidentiary review; they do NOT by themselves establish legal admissibility or court-admissible legal truth."
    }
  ]
}