Observed fact
Directly present in the record being examined.
PROJECT SHADOW 1.0.1 · CORRECTED R1 REFERENCE · PRELIVE · 2026-08-17
Project Shadow 1.0.1 contains no Myth package. Generic Myth v0.2.0 and Full-Canon Myth v0.3.5 are separate optional companions; both default off, neither is required by R1, and neither can authorize action or change an R1 result. ARM remains a civic repair workshop, not a certification service; publication transfers no authority and is not operational deployment, efficacy, safety, certification, a legal-compliance finding, permission to act, or a global green.
ECOSYSTEMARM
One civic lifecycle / six distinct public doors
The RecordremembersCivic QAinspectsPBHPpausesARMrepairsProject Shadowinstruments + testsALMSIVIpreserves optional originCHAMBER 05 / PUBLIC WORKS LEDGER
Make the model visible before it acts on someone else.
Evidence discipline is not decorative sourcing. It prevents observation, interpretation, prediction, and institutional preference from being laundered into one confident sentence.
CLAIM STATES
Do not let fluent prose erase uncertainty.
Every consequential statement should reveal what kind of claim it is and how much decision weight it has earned.
Verified fact
Confirmed against an independent, attributable source.
Inference
A reasoned conclusion with confidence and competing explanations visible.
Hypothesis
A plausible interpretation that has not yet earned decision weight.
Unknown
A gap that could change the decision and must remain explicit.
MINIMUM PUBLIC LEDGER
A citation is the beginning of the receipt.
The ledger preserves how evidence was used, what remains unknown, how the claim changed, and what downstream decisions depend on it.
CLAIM
The smallest consequential statement that can be checked without hiding multiple propositions inside one sentence.
STATE
Observed fact, verified fact, inference, hypothesis, or unknown.
SOURCE
Direct link or stable reference, publisher, date, access date, and the exact portion supporting the claim.
COVERAGE
What the source establishes—and what it does not establish.
CHALLENGE
The strongest competing account, missing context, counterevidence, or reason the claim may fail.
CHANGE
Correction history, who changed it, why, and what downstream analysis must be reopened.
REQUIRED RECEIPTA skeptical reader can reproduce the path from source to claim to decision without trusting the author’s confidence.
CORRECTION POLICY
A public record must be able to admit it changed.
Corrections should never silently replace the old state. Preserve the prior claim, the reason for change, the evidence that triggered it, the date, and which conclusions need reevaluation.
CLAIM→CHALLENGE→REVIEW→CORRECTION→DOWNSTREAM REOPEN
Integrity rule: disagreement is not automatically misinformation, uncertainty is not a defect to conceal, and a large source count does not compensate for weak source coverage.