diff --git a/working-specifications/decision-evidence-portability-v0.1.md b/working-specifications/decision-evidence-portability-v0.1.md index 156f8e9..44f5896 100644 --- a/working-specifications/decision-evidence-portability-v0.1.md +++ b/working-specifications/decision-evidence-portability-v0.1.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ # Decision Evidence Portability Specification +**Subtitle:** A cross-regime assurance specification for evidence generated by AI-assisted decisions and agentic workflows **Status:** Working specification -**Version:** 0.1.0 +**Version:** 0.1.1 **Date:** 2026-07-15 **Author:** Mark Julius Banasihan **ORCID:** 0009-0001-8121-2878 @@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ A recurring set of decision-evidence objects can support AI assurance across multiple regulatory and standards regimes. Each regime assigns its own legal meaning, thresholds, obligations, and consequences to those objects. -This specification does not claim that governance regimes are equivalent. It tests which decision evidence can travel across regimes, which evidence requires a jurisdiction-specific overlay, and where apparent equivalence fails. +This specification tests which decision evidence can travel across regimes, which evidence requires a jurisdiction-specific overlay, and where apparent equivalence fails. It does not treat governance regimes as interchangeable. ## Problem @@ -18,6 +19,16 @@ AI governance crosswalks usually compare terms, controls, or framework categorie The missing layer is a machine-readable account of the decision evidence itself: who held authority, what evidence was available, how AI influenced the decision, where intervention remained possible, what reasons were recorded, and who owned appeal, repair, and system change. +## Scope boundary + +This specification does not define an agent runtime governor, compile policy into harness configuration, or prescribe a universal set of agent controls. + +It specifies the evidence that configured controls, enforcement events, and human interventions must generate for cross-regime assurance and decision reconstruction. Runtime controls are treated as evidence-producing mechanisms. + +The central traceability path is: + +**external obligation → configured control → enforcement event → decision evidence → assurance claim** + ## Relationship to existing work This working specification extends Governed Decision Intelligence. @@ -26,6 +37,14 @@ This working specification extends Governed Decision Intelligence. - Human Influence Telemetry tests whether formal human authority retained causal force. - Decision Evidence Portability maps reusable decision evidence to external governance obligations while preserving jurisdiction-specific differences. +## Adjacent work + +Credo AI's Agent Governor and Agent Governance Configuration work address harness-level agent governance. That work translates policy and risk posture into runtime configurations, applies controls before agent actions execute, and produces enforcement telemetry. + +Decision Evidence Portability begins at the resulting control event and decision record. Its question is whether the institution can prove authorization, intervention, reasoning, monitoring, appeal, repair, and system-change authority across multiple governance regimes. + +The two approaches can interoperate. A runtime governor may produce control and enforcement events that become inputs to a Decision Evidence Portability record. + ## Initial ontology The v0.1 ontology contains ten top-level objects: @@ -78,14 +97,14 @@ The working specification will advance beyond v0.1 only when: 3. one core decision record validates under at least two jurisdictional overlays without changing historical facts; 4. each overlay can require additional local evidence; 5. missing authority, intervention, or logging evidence produces a defined failure; -6. policy obligations map to identifiable enforcement points in the agent workflow; +6. external obligations map to identifiable controls, enforcement events, and resulting evidence artifacts in the agent workflow; 7. outputs state evidence sufficiency and never declare legal compliance; 8. the draft receives legal or standards review and technical assurance review. ## Current status -This document establishes authorship, scope, terminology, and the initial research claim. The ontology, schema extension, mappings, test workflow, and case studies remain in development. +This document establishes authorship, scope, terminology, the initial research claim, and the boundary between runtime agent governance and cross-regime decision assurance. The ontology, schema extension, mappings, test workflow, and case studies remain in development. ## Citation -Banasihan, Mark Julius. “Decision Evidence Portability Specification.” Working specification, version 0.1.0, July 15, 2026. +Banasihan, Mark Julius. “Decision Evidence Portability Specification.” Working specification, version 0.1.1, July 15, 2026.