{
  "schema": "concresca.research-claim-types.v027",
  "site_version": "0.28.0-wip",
  "as_of": "2026-08-31",
  "purpose": "Keep observation, external records, interpretation, doctrine, and uncertainty visibly distinct while recording proposals under a separate implementation state.",
  "types": [
    {
      "id": "OBSERVED",
      "definition": "Directly witnessed or measured in an identified execution or artifact.",
      "may_authorize_action_alone": false,
      "requirements": [
        "identified observer or sensor",
        "time basis",
        "scope",
        "evidence path",
        "limitations"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "DOCUMENTED",
      "definition": "Supported by an accessible primary, official, or authenticated first-party record.",
      "may_authorize_action_alone": false,
      "requirements": [
        "record identity",
        "provenance",
        "version or date",
        "what the record actually supports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "REPORTED",
      "definition": "Asserted by an identified third party but not independently documented here.",
      "may_authorize_action_alone": false,
      "requirements": [
        "speaker or publisher",
        "date",
        "source route",
        "independence status"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "INTERPRETED",
      "definition": "An analytical conclusion drawn from identified evidence.",
      "may_authorize_action_alone": false,
      "requirements": [
        "evidence references",
        "reasoning summary",
        "competing interpretation",
        "uncertainty"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "DISPUTED",
      "definition": "Materially contradicted by credible evidence or interpretation.",
      "may_authorize_action_alone": false,
      "requirements": [
        "each major position",
        "supporting evidence",
        "unresolved question"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HYPOTHESIS",
      "definition": "A testable proposed explanation awaiting diagnostic evidence.",
      "may_authorize_action_alone": false,
      "requirements": [
        "test",
        "falsifier",
        "expected observation if false"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "DOCTRINE",
      "definition": "An operator-directed or institutional rule; a fact of policy rather than a fact of nature.",
      "may_authorize_action_alone": false,
      "requirements": [
        "owner",
        "scope",
        "effective version",
        "appeal or amendment route"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "SPECULATION",
      "definition": "A possibility without sufficient evidence for a testable or operational claim.",
      "may_authorize_action_alone": false,
      "requirements": [
        "explicit non-operational label",
        "reason evidence is insufficient"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "UNKNOWN",
      "definition": "A required fact, result, authority, or observation is unavailable.",
      "may_authorize_action_alone": false,
      "requirements": [
        "missing field",
        "why it matters",
        "how it could be resolved"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "global_rules": [
    "No claim class creates jurisdictional authority.",
    "No fluent text, repeated statement, link, screenshot, hash, or model output becomes proof by presentation alone.",
    "A claim may move between classes only through an attributable correction or new evidence record.",
    "Unknown and not-run states remain first-class outputs."
  ],
  "implementation_states": [
    "PROPOSED",
    "DEFINED",
    "LOCALLY_IMPLEMENTED",
    "LOCALLY_TESTED",
    "STAGING_OBSERVED",
    "OPERATIONAL_OBSERVED",
    "BLOCKED",
    "NOT_RUN",
    "NOT_OBSERVED",
    "FAILED",
    "SUPERSEDED"
  ],
  "source_basis": "Operator-supplied methodology report, adapted to Concresca; factual and standards claims in the report require source-level verification before external publication."
}