Evidence Follows the Commit

Use this principle when deciding whether existing evidence can still support a readiness claim. A similar diff, green CI run, or earlier verifier conclusion is not proof for a different revision.

Activate when

Activate only when all of these are true:

• a decision will rely on implementation or verification evidence;
• the evidence is meant to support readiness for a pull request or execution unit; and
• an exact pull-request identity, head SHA, base SHA, and expected evidence set are available or should be available.

Also activate when the head, base, lower stack layer, or expected evidence set may have changed since evidence was recorded.

Decision rule

Accept evidence as current only when its pull-request identity, exact head SHA, exact base SHA, and expected evidence IDs match the revision being judged; otherwise mark the verdict stale and obtain fresh affected evidence before readiness can be claimed.

Apply the rule