{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "name": "DecisionOS Authority & Supersession Resolver",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "generatedAt": "2026-09-26T02:45:00Z",
  "governanceRule": "Authority resolution evaluates acceptance status, authority class, explicit supersession, scope, version, and date. A newer unaccepted source NEVER automatically supersedes an older accepted authority.",
  "resolution_hierarchy": [
    {
      "precedence_rank": 1,
      "authority_tier": "LATEST_ACCEPTED_CURRENT_TRUTH",
      "description": "Ratified production reconciliation overlays, verified test suites, and accepted runtime audits."
    },
    {
      "precedence_rank": 2,
      "authority_tier": "LATEST_ACCEPTED_ADDITIVE_EVIDENCE",
      "description": "Formally accepted incremental evidence deltas, peer-reviewed study packages, and audited pilot slices."
    },
    {
      "precedence_rank": 3,
      "authority_tier": "CURRENT_RECONCILIATION_AND_AUTHORITY_REGISTRY",
      "description": "Governed supersession maps, claim ceilings, and document authority registers."
    },
    {
      "precedence_rank": 4,
      "authority_tier": "CURRENT_SCIENTIFIC_CANON",
      "description": "Current scientific ledgers and canonical observable definitions."
    },
    {
      "precedence_rank": 5,
      "authority_tier": "HISTORICAL_CANON",
      "description": "Earlier ratified baselines preserved strictly for provenance and lineage."
    },
    {
      "precedence_rank": 6,
      "authority_tier": "LEGACY_PRODUCT_AND_VISION_DOCUMENTS",
      "description": "Historical blueprints, pitch decks, and early positioning papers (strictly quarantined)."
    }
  ],
  "binding_invariants": [
    "OLDER != MORE CANONICAL",
    "MORE DETAILED != MORE AUTHORITATIVE",
    "IMPLEMENTED != SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATED",
    "COMPUTABLE != AUTHORIZED TO CLAIM",
    "RESEARCH RESULT != PRODUCT AUTHORITY",
    "CRYPTOGRAPHIC INTEGRITY != LEGAL TRUTH",
    "STATIC CONTEXT DECLARATION != RUNTIME ENFORCEMENT",
    "NEWER_UNACCEPTED_SOURCE != AUTOMATIC_SUPERSESSOR_OF_ACCEPTED_AUTHORITY"
  ],
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    {
      "source_id": "SRC-CURRENT-TRUTH-RECON-v1",
      "source_name": "DecisionOS Capability Atlas Current Truth Reconciliation v1",
      "source_type": "CURRENT_TRUTH_RECONCILIATION",
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "version": "v1.0",
      "hash": "AUTHORITY_UNRESOLVED",
      "acceptance_status": "ACCEPTED_RATIFIED",
      "authority_class": "CURRENT_CAPABILITY_TRUTH",
      "scope": "ALL_PRODUCT_CAPABILITIES",
      "current_or_historical": "CURRENT",
      "supersedes": [
        "SRC-ATLAS-v2.0-HISTORICAL",
        "SRC-ATLAS-v2.1-HISTORICAL",
        "SRC-ATLAS-v2.2-HISTORICAL"
      ],
      "superseded_by": [],
      "allowed_use": [
        "current capability status determination",
        "Cross-Org PASS_BOUNDED confirmation",
        "Governed FTL PASS_BOUNDED confirmation",
        "Cryptographic integrity baseline"
      ],
      "prohibited_use": [
        "claiming live payment authorization",
        "claiming universal commercial release"
      ],
      "publication_scope": "PUBLIC"
    },
    {
      "source_id": "SRC-ARCHITECTURE-HTML-REVISED-v7",
      "source_name": "enterprise_architecture_v6_4_AUTHORITY_REVISED.html",
      "source_type": "REVISED_ARCHITECTURE_DOCUMENT",
      "date": "2026-09-26",
      "version": "v7.0-AUTHORITY-REVISED",
      "hash": "7ea138a3d83e6b9fff1655c2f70efe8f22dcb1d00b7cfdc4e2a6b373d23b2351",
      "acceptance_status": "ACCEPTED_RATIFIED",
      "authority_class": "ARCHITECTURE_PRESENTATION_TRUTH",
      "scope": "TECHNICAL_ARCHITECTURE_PRESENTATION",
      "current_or_historical": "CURRENT",
      "supersedes": [
        "SRC-ARCHITECTURE-HTML-ORIGINAL"
      ],
      "superseded_by": [],
      "allowed_use": [
        "architecture presentation",
        "governed FTL epistemic flow illustration",
        "ZKP research target architecture visualization",
        "implemented crypto integrity description"
      ],
      "prohibited_use": [
        "claiming production Groth16 runtime is active",
        "claiming exact failure countdown"
      ],
      "publication_scope": "PUBLIC"
    },
    {
      "source_id": "SRC-QUESTIONS-HTML-REVISED-v2",
      "source_name": "decisionos_questions_v2_AUTHORITY_REVISED.html",
      "source_type": "REVISED_QUESTIONS_CATALOG",
      "date": "2026-09-26",
      "version": "v2.0-AUTHORITY-REVISED",
      "hash": "08b66f1f943d46ce657690cb9cf583e593bf104fbbc2d9438ac4eb8f7025000e",
      "acceptance_status": "ACCEPTED_RATIFIED",
      "authority_class": "OPERATIONAL_QUESTIONS_TRUTH",
      "scope": "EXECUTIVE_AND_OPERATIONAL_QUESTIONS",
      "current_or_historical": "CURRENT",
      "supersedes": [
        "SRC-QUESTIONS-HTML-ORIGINAL"
      ],
      "superseded_by": [],
      "allowed_use": [
        "operational and executive question routing",
        "bounded structural indicator explanations"
      ],
      "prohibited_use": [
        "hardcoded financial loss figures",
        "credit rating analogies",
        "burnout / cognitive fatigue scoring"
      ],
      "publication_scope": "PUBLIC"
    },
    {
      "source_id": "SRC-HISTORICAL-BLUEPRINT-2025",
      "source_name": "DecisionOS Architectural Blueprint & Early Positioning",
      "source_type": "HISTORICAL_VISION_DOCUMENT",
      "date": "2025-11-15",
      "version": "v1.0-HISTORICAL",
      "hash": "AUTHORITY_UNRESOLVED",
      "acceptance_status": "HISTORICAL_QUARANTINED",
      "authority_class": "LEGACY_VISION_DOCUMENT",
      "scope": "PHILOSOPHY_AND_LINEAGE",
      "current_or_historical": "HISTORICAL",
      "supersedes": [],
      "superseded_by": [
        "SRC-CURRENT-TRUTH-RECON-v1",
        "SRC-ARCHITECTURE-HTML-REVISED-v7"
      ],
      "allowed_use": [
        "founding philosophy",
        "category creation ambition (Resource as a Service)",
        "terminology lineage",
        "design history"
      ],
      "prohibited_use": [
        "current scientific authority",
        "current capability status",
        "failure countdown timing",
        "court-grade cryptographic claims",
        "current metric authority",
        "fixed-weight scoring formula authority"
      ],
      "publication_scope": "RESTRICTED_RESEARCH"
    },
    {
      "source_id": "SRC-RESEARCH-REPORT-2026-JAN",
      "source_name": "Decision Physics Academic Research Report",
      "source_type": "HISTORICAL_RESEARCH_REPORT",
      "date": "2026-01-20",
      "version": "v1.0",
      "hash": "AUTHORITY_UNRESOLVED",
      "acceptance_status": "HISTORICAL_LINEAGE",
      "authority_class": "RESEARCH_SCAFFOLD_SOURCE",
      "scope": "METHODOLOGICAL_FRAMEWORKS",
      "current_or_historical": "HISTORICAL",
      "supersedes": [],
      "superseded_by": [
        "SRC-CURRENT-TRUTH-RECON-v1"
      ],
      "allowed_use": [
        "Research Question Scaffold methodology",
        "Negative Capability documentation patterns",
        "Hypothesis Registration architecture",
        "qualitative observability insights"
      ],
      "prohibited_use": [
        "proof of current commercial product capabilities",
        "standalone scientific proof without subsequent validation"
      ],
      "publication_scope": "RESTRICTED_RESEARCH"
    }
  ],
  "granular_supersession_model": {
    "granularity": "CLAIM_AND_SCOPE_LEVEL",
    "doctrine": "A newer authority document supersedes older documents ONLY for the specific claims, capabilities, or scopes it explicitly addresses. Historical documents (e.g. Capability Atlas v2.0, technical implementation specs) remain authoritative for un-superseded technical mechanics, algorithms, and design rationale."
  },
  "presentation_claim_overrides": [
    {
      "override_id": "OVERRIDE-CHB2-CURRENT-AUTHORITY",
      "target_claim_family": "CH-B2_PROSPECTIVE_SUPPORT",
      "applies_to_slides": [
        {
          "slide_number": 40,
          "slide_id": "S41_ACADEMIC_FLYWHEEL",
          "stale_text": "CH-B2 is the first completed prospective reference case / CH-B2 H1 · SUPPORTED · Frozen V1.1.7"
        },
        {
          "slide_number": 43,
          "slide_id": "S41_CH_B2_REFERENCE_001",
          "stale_text": "SCIENTIFIC AUTHORITY: PROSPECTIVE_EMPIRICAL_SUPPORT · GRANTED / H1 SUPPORTED"
        }
      ],
      "applies_to_claims": [
        "CH-B2 H1 SUPPORTED",
        "completed prospective reference case",
        "prospective empirical support granted"
      ],
      "current_interpretation": {
        "empirical_adjudication": "EXISTS (H1 adjudicated supported under frozen V1.1.7 in Attempt-8)",
        "candidate_class": "CLASS_B_PROSPECTIVE_SUPPORT_CANDIDATE",
        "provenance": "PROVENANCE_LIMITED",
        "reconciliation": "RECONCILIATION_REQUIRED",
        "publication": "HOLD_REVIEW",
        "validation_grade": "NOT_CLASS_A_CLOSED_VALIDATION",
        "product_promotion": "BLOCKED_BY_ARCHITECTURE",
        "non_inheritance": "NO general Failure Horizon, NO eta validation, NO Recoverability authority"
      },
      "binding_directive": "Agents MUST resolve any presentation statement regarding CH-B2 through current scientific authority: empirical adjudication exists under frozen V1.1.7, but provenance is limited, reconciliation is required, publication is on hold, and broad promotion to product risk metrics is strictly unauthorized."
    }
  ]
}