Institutional review

Example evidence artifact

A synthetic Australian livestock case, carried end to end. The artifact states what evidence is present, what was reviewed, which profile was applied, what limitations remain — and what it does not establish.

Case

AU-LIVESTOCK-001

Evidence family

Methane intervention dosing

Records

14 signed events, 2 source manifests

Profile applied

au.livestock.v1

External reliance

Not recorded

Artifact body

Structure

artifact.json (abridged)
{
  "artifact_id": "art_01HP2K...",
  "case": "AU-LIVESTOCK-001",
  "generated_at": "2026-04-02T03:11:20Z",
  "profile": { "name": "au.livestock.v1", "version": "1.2.0" },
  "evidence_present": [
    { "evidence_id": "ev_01HN7...", "type": "dosing", "integrity": "ok" },
    { "evidence_id": "ev_01HN9...", "type": "delivery", "integrity": "ok" },
    { "evidence_id": "mf_01HNB...", "type": "manifest", "integrity": "ok" }
  ],
  "gaps": [
    { "code": "CALIBRATION_LINK_MISSING", "severity": "material" },
    { "code": "REVIEWER_ATTESTATION_PARTIAL", "severity": "advisory" }
  ],
  "reviews": [
    { "reviewer": "reviewer@example-assurance", "at": "2026-04-01T22:40:00Z",
      "scope": "identity + authority bindings", "outcome": "accepted-with-notes" }
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "Model domain validated for feedlot contexts only.",
    "Calibration evidence supplied out-of-band and not cryptographically bound."
  ],
  "supports": [
    "Inspection of dosing lineage from device to herd identity.",
    "Method-compatibility assessment against au.livestock.v1."
  ],
  "does_not_establish": [
    "Scientific efficacy of the intervention.",
    "Methodology eligibility or registry acceptance.",
    "Claim ownership or any external party's reliance decision."
  ],
  "verification": { "cli": "agev artifact verify artifact.json",
                    "digest": "sha256:1a77..." }
}

Trust states

Read the artifact in four separate registers

Technical integrity

Working

All included records hash-verified against their commitments.

Scientific interpretation

Research-only

Efficacy is determined by scientific evidence outside this artifact.

Method compatibility

Partial

Assessed against au.livestock.v1; one material gap remains.

External reliance

Recorded only

No buyer, verifier or institution has recorded a decision.

Verify it yourself

Local verification

  • download the artifact and its fixtures from the tagged release;
  • run the CLI verifier against the artifact digest;
  • reconstruct the source manifest from your own store;
  • compare expected outputs with the published fixture outputs;
  • reproduce the documented failure cases.
verify
agev artifact verify artifact.json --strict
# integrity ......... ok (3/3 records)
# manifest .......... reconstructed
# profile ........... au.livestock.v1 (1.2.0)
# gaps .............. 1 material, 1 advisory
# reliance .......... none recorded
# exit 0

Boundary

What this artifact is not

A valid signature is not proof of scientific efficacy. Method compatibility is not registry approval. Artifact generation is not external acceptance. Payment is not evidence quality.