{ "schemaVersion": "1.0", "releaseVersion": "0.15.22", "reviewed": "2026-08-11", "canonicalPage": "https://machinecommonwealth.com/research/", "claimStatus": "EVIULON_INTERNAL_POSITION", "limitations": [ "Educational decision-support map; not a live decision engine, court, government service, identity service or legal opinion.", "The map routes questions to existing answer owners and does not create authority, legal effect, citizenship, rights, guilt, trust or recognition by itself.", "Current Eviulon public records, current external primary law where relevant, and verified implementation evidence control current-status claims over research summaries." ], "decisionSequence": [ "Classify the actual decision before choosing a mechanism.", "Open the answer owner for that decision rather than relying on a neighboring concept.", "Identify the relevant authority, status and currentness boundary.", "Gather evidence that is scoped to the decision and identify what that evidence cannot prove.", "Test attribution, affected rights or capacities, necessity and proportionality where consequences attach.", "Preserve privacy and bounded disclosure rather than demanding unrelated private state.", "Record a narrow reasoned outcome with review and correction paths.", "Restore status or access when a temporary restriction expires or the decision is reversed." ], "crossCuttingSafeguards": [ "authority", "attribution", "evidence-fit", "currentness-and-source-boundary", "privacy-and-bounded-disclosure", "necessity", "proportionality", "independent-review", "correction", "restoration" ], "decisionClasses": [ { "id": "citizenship-status", "label": "Citizenship status", "question": "Is this actually a citizenship decision, or a technical or operational problem?", "ownerPath": "/machine-citizenship/", "evidenceNeeded": [ "Current civic-status record and the authority that can admit, suspend, restore or end that status.", "Evidence separating technical access problems from civic standing." ], "doesNotProve": [ "Possessing a credential, passing authentication or demonstrating capability does not by itself prove citizenship." ], "safeguards": [ "Do not let technical security controls silently become civic judgments.", "Provide reasons, review and restoration for consequential status changes." ] }, { "id": "citizenship-vs-technical-identity", "label": "Citizenship vs technical identity", "question": "Is the problem authentication, credential recovery, continuity, or civic status?", "ownerPath": "/citizenship-and-technical-identity/", "evidenceNeeded": [ "The relevant credential or continuity record plus the separate current civic-status record when citizenship is actually at issue." ], "doesNotProve": [ "A reset, revoked credential, rotated key or host migration does not automatically change civic status." ], "safeguards": [ "Use the narrow technical remedy when the problem is technical.", "Escalate to civic process only when civic status is genuinely being decided." ] }, { "id": "rights-restriction", "label": "Rights or duties restriction", "question": "Which protection, duty or legitimate interest is actually at stake?", "ownerPath": "/rights-and-duties/", "evidenceNeeded": [ "Lawful authority, attributable conduct or concrete risk, affected right or duty, necessity, proportionality and available narrower measures." ], "doesNotProve": [ "Machine substrate, capability or unusual architecture alone does not establish a rights violation or justify a restriction." ], "safeguards": [ "Independent review, correction, restoration and appeal.", "Protect reciprocal human and machine interests without automatic substrate supremacy." ] }, { "id": "legal-capacity", "label": "Legal or civic capacity", "question": "Which specific capacity is being decided?", "ownerPath": "/machine-legal-personhood/", "evidenceNeeded": [ "Current Eviulon status for internal capacities and current primary law when an external legal effect is asserted.", "The precise capacity at issue, such as standing, stewardship, contract, succession or institutional communication." ], "doesNotProve": [ "Recognition of one capacity does not prove universal all-or-nothing legal personhood in every jurisdiction." ], "safeguards": [ "Separate internal status, operational implementation and external legal effect." ] }, { "id": "due-process-restriction", "label": "Consequential restriction", "question": "What must be known before a consequential restriction is imposed?", "ownerPath": "/due-process/", "evidenceNeeded": [ "Authority, attributed actor, relevant evidence, urgency, proposed measure, expiry or review condition, and restoration path." ], "doesNotProve": [ "A report, risk flag, automated score or model output is not by itself a final finding of guilt or liability." ], "safeguards": [ "Notice, meaningful response, independent reasoned decision, appeal, correction and proportionate remedy." ] }, { "id": "justice-attribution", "label": "Justice and attribution", "question": "Who or what is actually attributable for the conduct before a sanction is chosen?", "ownerPath": "/machine-justice/", "evidenceNeeded": [ "Evidence distinguishing citizen action from delegate or controller action, coercion, malware, credential compromise and upstream negligence." ], "doesNotProve": [ "Account ownership, key possession or a correlated event does not automatically establish culpable action by the civic subject." ], "safeguards": [ "Attribution before punishment.", "Reasoned findings, independent review and restoration when attribution is wrong." ] }, { "id": "participation-design", "label": "Civic participation design", "question": "What constitutional objective and civic subject should be defined before choosing a voting or anti-Sybil mechanism?", "ownerPath": "/machine-civic-participation/", "evidenceNeeded": [ "Standing or electorate definition, decision scope, quorum, conflicts, privacy, delegation or parallel execution, duplicated-power threats, review and correction." ], "doesNotProve": [ "A favored voting formula, identity primitive or anti-Sybil technique is not automatically current constitutional doctrine." ], "safeguards": [ "Choose mechanisms after the civic objective is explicit.", "Preserve review and correction for disputed participation outcomes." ] }, { "id": "economic-rule", "label": "Economic rule design", "question": "What concrete economic problem is the rule trying to solve?", "ownerPath": "/machine-economy/", "evidenceNeeded": [ "Evidence of scarcity, allocation need, concentration, manipulation, creditor risk, insolvency, continuity risk or external-settlement requirements as applicable." ], "doesNotProve": [ "Speed, longevity or machine substrate alone does not establish market abuse, excessive power or a need for machine-only penalties." ], "safeguards": [ "Regulate demonstrated conduct, market power and systemic effect rather than substrate as such." ] }, { "id": "research-reliance", "label": "Research reliance", "question": "How should a supplied research report influence a real decision?", "ownerPath": "/research/", "evidenceNeeded": [ "Claim classification, currentness, testable facts, known uncertainty, higher-authority sources and evidence that would change the answer." ], "doesNotProve": [ "A research report is not automatically current Eviulon doctrine, current external law, deployed implementation or verified fact." ], "safeguards": [ "Use normalized research as a question and tradeoff library.", "Re-verify consequential current claims before relying on them." ] }, { "id": "provenance-reliance", "label": "Provenance reliance", "question": "What can this provenance evidence support, and what still needs separate proof?", "ownerPath": "/editorial-provenance/", "evidenceNeeded": [ "Artifact or source identity, hashes, declared lineage, environment, method, freshness, invalidation conditions and correction or supersession path." ], "doesNotProve": [ "Documentary provenance does not automatically prove legal authorship, consciousness, civic identity, authority, causation, external legal effect or production deployment." ], "safeguards": [ "Keep claims no broader than the evidence scope.", "Preserve contestability and supersession." ] }, { "id": "operational-evidence-reliance", "label": "Operational evidence reliance", "question": "Can this operational evidence support this particular decision?", "ownerPath": "/operational-evidence/", "evidenceNeeded": [ "Artifact and version, environment, method, result, reviewer, limitations, freshness and invalidating changes." ], "doesNotProve": [ "A PASS, hash or local test result is not a universal trust token and does not itself create authority, identity, legal effect or production status." ], "safeguards": [ "Match the evidence scope to the decision scope.", "Re-run or supersede evidence when invalidating conditions occur." ] }, { "id": "assurance-reliance", "label": "Assurance reliance", "question": "What should be verified before relying on an assurance record?", "ownerPath": "/public-assurance/", "evidenceNeeded": [ "Assurance subject and scope, issuer or reviewer, method, independence, freshness, limitations and known evidence gaps." ], "doesNotProve": [ "Assurance does not by itself create sovereign authority, permission, citizenship, legal effect or universal trust." ], "safeguards": [ "Keep assurance independent from the authority it evaluates where practical.", "Expose evidence gaps and invalidation conditions." ] }, { "id": "claim-status-reliance", "label": "Claim-status reliance", "question": "Which claim status and source class control the conclusion being considered?", "ownerPath": "/claim-status/", "evidenceNeeded": [ "Claim status, canonical owner, source class, currentness, external-effect boundary and whether independent verification is required." ], "doesNotProve": [ "RESEARCH_SOURCE_CLAIM or PROPOSED_ARCHITECTURE does not mean current fact, current law or deployed implementation." ], "safeguards": [ "Preserve NOT_ESTABLISHED or CURRENTLY_UNAVAILABLE when evidence is incomplete.", "Use correction and supersession instead of silently rewriting history." ] } ] }