Apply Evidence Standard Application

Overview

Audit a document as if it claimed an evidence standard, and require checkable verification (or pointers to verification) for any “verified” claims.

Steps

Step 1: Load the question bank

Load and use:

• library/procedures/core/goal_analysis/evidence_standard_application.yaml

Treat it as the canonical audit question list to apply.

Step 2: Define the evidence labels used in the target

For each target:

• Identify whether it uses evidence labels (e.g., Verified/Assumption/Unknown).
• If it does not, state what label set it implicitly relies on (or write ‘none’).
• Apply the verified_definition for this audit.

Step 3: Inventory and audit “verified” claims

For each target:

• List the claims it treats as “verified” or uses as premises for conclusions.
• For each claim, identify what check would verify it.
• If the document provides no check and no pointer, flag it.

Repairs:

• add missing check
• add pointer to an existing procedure/gate that supplies the check
• weaken or relabel the claim

Step 4: Confirm downstream usage does not smuggle certainty

Check whether any Assumption/Unknown claims are used as if they were Verified. For each case:

• add a check
• change the conclusion
• or change the label and propagate the change

When to Use

• When a procedure/gate uses labels like Verified/Assumption/Unknown
• When a document sounds rigorous but does not specify how to verify claims
• When you want to turn “verified” into a repeatable content audit