evidence-ledgerlisted

# Evidence Ledger The register every material claim in the package traces back to. Owns claim states, source authority, and the separation of fact from interpretation. ## Iron Law **NO ASSERTION WITHOUT A LEDGER ROW AND A CLAIM STATE. If you cannot cite `[EV-####]`, write "Unknown" instead of writing prose.** The failure this prevents is not fabrication. It is the confident, plausible, unsourced sentence that a reader acts on — and that nobody can check six months later without redoing the whole inspection. ## What needs a row A **material claim** is one that could change an investment, acquisition, partnership, procurement, or security decision; change how a teammate modifies, deploys, operates, or troubleshoots the system; change what a partner builds against; or change what a customer believes the product does, guarantees, stores, protects, or supports. Everything else is prose and needs no row. "This document explains the deployment model" is prose. "Deployments are zero-downtime" is a claim, and a strong one. ## The six states | State | Entry condition | May appear | |---|---|---| | `V` verified | Directly supported by authoritative current evidence, or an executed check whose output is retained | Internal and public, unqualified | | `C` corroborated | Two independent current sources agree, **at least one authoritative for this claim type** | Internal and public, unqualified | | `R` reported | Stated by a stakeholder or an existing document, not independently ve