{
  "standard": "Terra Vita Governance Kernel",
  "version": "TV-GK-1.0",
  "status": "adopted",
  "effective_date": "2026-07-09",
  "scope": [
    "Terra Vita Hub",
    "FieldTrace",
    "Institutional Assurance Spine",
    "Capital-Flow Readiness",
    "Project Authority Lock",
    "Funding Spine display surfaces",
    "assurance and export registers"
  ],
  "purpose": "Protect truth, evidence integrity, attribution, reviewer separation and institutional authority across every Terra Vita deployment.",
  "definitions": {
    "evidence": "A source-bound object with identifiable origin, time, context, custody and limitations that can be independently reconstructed.",
    "assertion": "A statement that has not yet met the requirements for evidence.",
    "interpretation": "A bounded human or machine-assisted reading of evidence that does not alter the source object.",
    "decision": "An exercise of authority by the person or institution holding the relevant mandate.",
    "controlled_output": "A purpose-bound derivative that cites its evidence, version, limitations, reviewer and release authority."
  },
  "non_derogable_articles": [
    {
      "id": "GK-01",
      "title": "Truth boundary",
      "rule": "Evidence, assertion, interpretation and decision must remain separately identifiable."
    },
    {
      "id": "GK-02",
      "title": "Evidence qualification",
      "rule": "An object counts as evidence only when origin, time, context, custody and limitations are attributable and reconstructible."
    },
    {
      "id": "GK-03",
      "title": "Custody and touch rights",
      "rule": "Every create, receive, annotate, correct, lock, release and withdraw action must be role-bound and auditable."
    },
    {
      "id": "GK-04",
      "title": "Provenance and attribution",
      "rule": "Original evidence and all transformations must preserve source identity, programme code, version and actor attribution."
    },
    {
      "id": "GK-05",
      "title": "Reviewer separation",
      "rule": "Evidence originators, reviewers, assurance actors and institutional decision authorities must remain distinguishable."
    },
    {
      "id": "GK-06",
      "title": "Distortion prevention",
      "rule": "No communication or output may omit material limitations, convert uncertainty into certainty or overwrite adverse evidence."
    },
    {
      "id": "GK-07",
      "title": "Authority and inheritance",
      "rule": "Institutions may configure acceptance criteria but may not weaken evidence integrity, reviewer independence or authority separation."
    },
    {
      "id": "GK-08",
      "title": "Release, reliance and reconstruction",
      "rule": "Every controlled release must be purpose-bound, version-bound, revocable and reconstructible; external decisions remain with the receiving institution."
    }
  ],
  "conformity": {
    "required": [
      "all eight articles implemented",
      "programme_code preserved",
      "original evidence immutable or superseded through controlled correction",
      "exceptions retained until formally closed",
      "release and withdrawal events logged",
      "institutional authority not transferred"
    ],
    "prohibited_claims": [
      "automatic institutional approval",
      "automatic funding readiness",
      "rating or certification unless separately authorised",
      "AI decision authority",
      "regulatory substitution"
    ]
  },
  "change_control": "Material changes require a new version, impact classification and review of active reliance outputs."
}