Research · Measurements
Self-Conformance Report No. 002
Did every material claim in GAIBRA's replies carry its passport — where it came from, what kind it is, and what is unknown about it? Every turn in a production period was measured here, and published with its limits.
What this report is: the Epistemic Custody Standard, ECS-1, requires every material claim in an output to carry a passport stating where it came from, whether it was measured, estimated or inferred, when, and what is unknown about it. This report counts — from GAIBRA's own database — every turn stored in the period, and checks whether its claims carried their passports.
It is a self-declaration, not assessed by an independent body, and the standard itself is a working draft for public comment.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Period (UTC) | 2026-10-16 14:00–18:30 |
| Scope | 12 turns across 9 kinds of request from 8 minds — everything stored in the period, not a chosen sample |
| Standard | ECS-1 v0.6.1 · doi:10.5281/zenodo.23416950 |
| Level | Level 1 "Passported" |
| Result | Passed — with a declared limit in §7 |
1. Turns
| Turns | Passed | Failed | No material claim | Violations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
The turn that "does not apply" is a general conversation with no figure and no verdict, so nothing in it needs a passport — that is its correct verdict, not a gap.
2. Claims by kind
| Claims | With a valid passport | Measured | Estimated | Inferred | Declared unknowns | Custody entries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 111 | 111 | 16 | 0 | 95 | 0 ⚠ | 331 |
The ratios are coverage, not degrees of confidence. "Inferred" dominates as expected: most questions in the period were described in words (correcting a sentence · why a state fell · a growth figure the asker gave), so what was built on them is declared inferred, as it is. "Measured" came where live data was fetched: a stock analysis (9) and a strategic decision (7).
⚠ Unknowns: see §7 — zero here is not a certificate that nothing is unknown.
3. Minds and kinds of request
| Kind of request | Mind | Turns | Passed | Does not apply | Claims | Of which measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistic analysis | Linguist | 3 | 3 | 0 | 36 | 0 |
| Strategic decision | Executive council | 1 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 7 |
| Stock analysis | Investor | 1 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 9 |
| History of Islamic civilisation | Historian | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Writing code | Developer | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Data analysis | Analyst | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Fixing a bug | Developer | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| A scientific question | Scientist | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| General conversation | General | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 8 minds | 12 | 11 | 1 | 111 | 16 |
The three linguistic-analysis turns came from the system shutdown drill: before it, during it, and after the return.
4. Passports by source
| Source | Kind | Count | Declared unknowns | Seal failures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data fetched from an external source | Measured | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| An engine's computation | Inferred | 53 | 0 | 0 |
| Live material | Measured | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| What the user wrote | Inferred | 42 | 0 | 0 |
5. Conformance checks
| Check | Result | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Structure of passports and custody entries | ✓ Passed | Zero violations in the period |
| Seal integrity (a hash that does not accept change) | ✓ Passed | Zero failures on storing, zero on verifying |
| Derivation rules | ✓ Passed | Zero violations · 162 derivation entries |
| Chain of custody: no upgrade in transit | ✓ Passed | Zero broken custody; no claim was raised above its kind in any turn |
| A passport for every material claim | ✓ Passed | 111 of 111 |
| Deliberately wrong cases are rejected | ✓ Passed | 12 of 12 rejected at every system start in the period (three times) |
| An unknown extension is ignored, not broken | ✓ Passed | Zero violations |
| Declaring material unknowns | ⚠ Declared limit | §7 — first item |
6. Chain of custody and the executive council
| Action | Entries | Seal failures | Verification failures on receipt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Derive | 162 | 0 | 0 |
| Forward | 169 | 0 | 0 |
Information crossing between the executive council's members — a declared limit in report 001 — is now recorded: three members (risk officer · chief executive · finance director), each with its own crossing entry, none abstaining. In this turn the council declared the data insufficient and did not compose a single verdict — and that is written as it is.
7. Declared limits
- ⚠ Unknowns the reply declares are not yet carried into the passports. Unknowns are zero across the twelve turns, although the replies themselves declare gaps to the user (the weakest confidence axis · the context question in linguistic analysis · the council declaring the data insufficient). The gap is said in the phrasing and not written in the passport, and the claims built on it do not inherit it. The checker passes this because it checks the passport's structure, not the completeness of what it declares. So zero unknowns in this report does not mean nothing is unknown.
- The kind "estimated" did not occur in the period: what these requests said about the future was declared "inferred". GAIBRA is not claimed to estimate quantitatively in them.
- A passport's precision today is a description and an engine result, not a single number.
- The passport's passage to the language model that phrases the reply is recorded, but the model dropping a qualifier such as "estimated" while phrasing is not yet detected automatically.
- What the language model writes outside the verdict object has no passport; this is declared at the level of the output.
- Each engine's version is not yet declared in the passport.
- Scope: 9 kinds of request from 8 minds were measured live in this period. "All of GAIBRA's services" is not written — what was not requested in the period was not measured.
- A self-declaration not assessed by an independent body, and the standard is still a draft — so "conformance" is not claimed.
This report attests to the standing of the information — where it came from and what kind it is — not to its truth. It is published whether the period passed or not, and with its limits.