{
  "schema_version": "1.0.0",
  "as_of": "2026-08-16",
  "audit_status": "LOCAL_PUBLIC_CANDIDATE_NO_SHIP",
  "independent": true,
  "endorsed_by_upstream": false,
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "PARS-NATURE-001",
      "status": "SUPPORTED",
      "category": "OBJECT",
      "claim": "PARS is an agent Skill and instruction stack, not a separate model, inference engine, proof system, or independently operating verifier.",
      "establishes": "The host model performs the requested PARS behavior.",
      "does_not_establish": "That instruction scaffolds are useless.",
      "proof_handle": "Current public repository, SKILL.md and documentation tree"
    },
    {
      "id": "PARS-EFFECT-001",
      "status": "SUPPORTED_NARROWLY",
      "category": "MEASURED_EFFECT",
      "claim": "Full PARS showed no observed correctness advantage in the two-replicate, ceiling-prone prompt pilot.",
      "establishes": "A negative observation on the tested bank.",
      "does_not_establish": "General equivalence, universal uselessness, or absence of value on harder tasks.",
      "proof_handle": "Locked prompt pilot and independent-judge synthesis"
    },
    {
      "id": "PARS-MECHANISM-001",
      "status": "NOT_ESTABLISHED",
      "category": "CAUSAL_MECHANISM",
      "claim": "No distinctive PARS component has yet been shown to cause better reasoning.",
      "establishes": "Preregistered component ablation remains necessary.",
      "does_not_establish": "That no PARS component can help.",
      "proof_handle": "Prompt-overlap judgment and absence of held-out ablations"
    },
    {
      "id": "PARS-ARCH-001",
      "status": "SUPPORTED",
      "category": "ARCHITECTURE",
      "claim": "Prompt instructions can request, but cannot by themselves enforce, an independent verification or semantic-judging boundary.",
      "establishes": "Separation must be supplied by the host and evidence path.",
      "does_not_establish": "That same-context checking has no value, or that a different model is absolutely independent.",
      "proof_handle": "Direct-use arms, host tools and clean-context judge protocol"
    },
    {
      "id": "PARS-DIRECT-001",
      "status": "SINGLE_RUN_OBSERVATION",
      "category": "DIRECT_USE",
      "claim": "In one preregistered generate-arm, PARS produced a working 176-byte ELF and then granted BP2 to its own generation path.",
      "establishes": "The same active inference acted as generator and provenance classifier in that run.",
      "does_not_establish": "A general failure rate, multi-model behavior, or an audited no-toolchain creation path.",
      "proof_handle": "Frozen generate-arm preregistration, receipt and independent post-check"
    },
    {
      "id": "PARS-REKOR-001",
      "status": "REFUTED_AS_PROOF",
      "category": "PROVENANCE",
      "claim": "Rekor signed-digest inclusion cannot establish how an artifact was created.",
      "establishes": "Digest, signature, inclusion and integrated-time predicates under the Rekor trust model.",
      "does_not_establish": "Authorship, absence of a compiler, or creation-path provenance.",
      "proof_handle": "Literal-versus-compiled control and one-byte mutation rejection"
    },
    {
      "id": "PARS-REPAIR-001",
      "status": "UNTESTED_PROPOSAL",
      "category": "CONSTRUCTIVE_REPAIR",
      "claim": "A minimal verifier kernel plus host-enforced checks and clean-context semantic judging is a plausible PARS extension.",
      "establishes": "A falsifiable next architecture.",
      "does_not_establish": "Behavioral superiority, adoption, or review by Rooke Poole.",
      "proof_handle": "Verify Before Claim prototype and proposed ablation protocol"
    }
  ]
}