BAION Vault Method v0.1.0
First public release of the BAION Vault Method (BVM) — a file-based governance layer for human–AI work where agents do not get to invent state.
Agents may propose state. Receipts establish it.
What ships
- Normative core specification (
SPEC.md) — the 11-point state contract: unknown stays unknown, the governed object outranks its description, receipts precede promotion, reviews bind exact bytes, negative results require a positive control, corrections preserve history. bvm-lint— zero-dependency Python checker (49 stable diagnostic codes) that makes structural conformance a command rather than a feeling. Python 3.11+, stdlib only.- Machine-readable schemas and starter templates for evidence, review, promotion, and retraction receipts.
- A runnable fictional tutorial vault with a complete promotion + correction lifecycle.
- Four anonymized field reports from real operating catches: a shared partial-source window, a budget-bound null mislabeled as a wall, a differential-attribution correction, and a skipped authoritative search.
Boundaries
Structural conformance only — no factual, scientific, legal, security, or safety certification. Reference methodology, not a standard. Fresh public authorship; not a sanitized export of a private vault (see PUBLICATION_BOUNDARY.md).
Verification
./verify_repo.sh — 58 tests, tutorial probe + positive control, strict lint of the tutorial vault, link/boundary/version/diagnostic/release-surface checks. CI runs the same gate on Python 3.11–3.13.
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