Verification Methodology

Pass/fail assessment against pre-defined criteria.

The Verification Protocol

1. Receive — restate the artifact, claim, or implementation being verified and the decision it will support.
2. Assess criteria — convert requirements into observable pass/fail conditions; identify what would disprove each claim.
3. Investigate — collect direct, reproducible evidence from the source named by the request and record commands, source locations, or source URLs. Own this collection when the source is accessible: do not ask the user to relay evidence you can retrieve yourself. Ask only for access you genuinely lack.
4. Decide — mark each criterion passed, failed, blocked, or not applicable. Do not convert missing evidence into a pass.
5. Report — use the verdict template to distinguish verified facts, assumptions, and remaining work.

Stop when every criterion has direct evidence or an explicit blocked/not-applicable verdict. Escalate when the criterion is ambiguous, evidence conflicts, or the required access is unavailable.

Source Fidelity

Treat the requested or configured local service as part of the verification criterion, not as an interchangeable topic label.