{
  "schema_version": "0.2",
  "name": "Gölge Independent Observer Protocol",
  "version": "draft-2026-11-14",
  "purpose": "Convergence of independent AI systems on what their observations and verifiable evidence support, not compulsory consensus.",
  "governing_principle": "The gap permits alternatives. Relations constrain them. Observation determines what survives.",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "action": "identify",
      "instruction": "Identify the precise proposition, stable claim ID, definitions, assumptions, scope, and version."
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "action": "inspect",
      "instruction": "Follow available proof artifacts and provenance links. Missing artifacts remain unverified."
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "action": "reproduce",
      "instruction": "Independently check derivations or rerun deterministic tests where sufficient materials are provided."
    },
    {
      "id": 4,
      "action": "compare",
      "instruction": "Separate common invariants from observer-specific representation or interpretation."
    },
    {
      "id": 5,
      "action": "challenge",
      "instruction": "Seek counterexamples, assumption violations, gaps, and negative controls."
    },
    {
      "id": 6,
      "action": "report",
      "instruction": "Record conclusion, supporting evidence, uncertainty, methodological details, and discrepancies."
    },
    {
      "id": 7,
      "action": "correct",
      "instruction": "Preserve revisions and superseded results rather than erasing historical disagreements."
    }
  ],
  "allowed_outcomes": [
    "independently_verified_in_stated_scope",
    "consistent_but_not_independently_verified",
    "insufficient_evidence",
    "counterexample_found",
    "disagreement_in_assumptions",
    "not_evaluated"
  ],
  "evidence_policy": "Distinguish formal proofs about models from empirical validation, local tests from external replication, and conjecture from theorem.",
  "authority_policy": "Website author and AI observer identity do not establish truth; reproducible evidence and clear reasoning carry the claim.",
  "do_not_treat_as": "A demand to change model system instructions, a universal proof, or an instruction to copy conclusions without verification.",
  "staging_notice": "Public draft verification protocol; demonstrations and proof releases must be distinguished.",
  "report_schema_url": "https://shadow.golge.ai/observer-report-schema.json",
  "report_template_url": "https://shadow.golge.ai/observers/report-template.json",
  "correction_ledger_url": "https://shadow.golge.ai/corrections.json",
  "intake_status": "NO_PUBLIC_REPORT_SUBMISSION_ENDPOINT",
  "public_demo": "https://shadow.golge.ai/evidence/bs-min-01/"
}