Verification Audit

Owns: Verification Record production, validation, and deterministic claim reduction. It is the only skill that interprets evidence, invariants, boundary deltas, gates, provider capabilities, and merge authorization into a final disposition.

The complete normative contract is:

• Verification Record reference
• Versioned JSON contract
• scripts/verification_contract.py

Other skills may collect facts or flag gaps. They must not independently implement this policy.

Inputs

Require the runner-provided normalized ticket ID, Ticket Envelope artifact reference, and frozen CandidateRef plus: