Status

A status snapshot is trustworthy exactly when every line traces to an artifact that exists on disk right now; the first inferred line turns the report into a guess wearing a report's clothes.

Report only observable local facts: available intent, subject-manifest, and verdict artifacts; their counts, digests, and timestamps; deterministic check results; and unavailable or corrupt sources. The canonical durable stores are .agents/ao/intents/sha256 and .agents/ao/verdicts/sha256; subject manifests remain caller-supplied unless the caller names their location. When .agents/ao evidence exists, report which stored artifact kind is newest and label that conclusion as evidence recency, not runtime phase or process activity.

Always disclose checked and not_checked. Runtime phase, execution elapsed time, tool-call activity, and remaining work are not_checked unless a caller provides a separate authoritative source for them.