nf.evidence.provenance

Provenance Form (ProvF)

Contract ID: nf.evidence.provenance | Family: evidence | Index Status: draft | AuthorityEffect: None

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1. Executive Summary & Metadata

Provenance Form (ProvF) enforces structural normalization and explicit defect routing in the evidence regime.

Property	Value
Canonical ID	nf.evidence.provenance
Short Name	ProvF
Full Name	Provenance Form
Family	evidence (Cryptographic Receipts, Dual Witnesses, Loss Ledgers, CDC Logs & Schema Totality)
Qualification	Extended Form Contract (Normal Form Contract)
Data / Math Posture	at_rest
Index Status	draft
Theory Status	proposed
Verification Status	absent
Contract Version	v0
Governance Fence	AuthorityEffect: None (certified_implies_authorized: false)

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2. Visual Architecture & Normalization Diagram

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3. Concrete Worked Example & Mechanism

Visual Transition Summary

Stage	Carrier / Operator	Concrete State / Invariant
1. Before / Candidate Input	Input Carrier (ProvF Candidate)	Anomaly risk: unprovenanced tuple ; derivation
2. Normalization / Gate	ProvF Verification Gate	query tuples map to eleme... (certified_implies_authorized: false)
3. After / Certified Output	Certified ProvF Output	Invariant: ; ['tuple_provenance_map', ; 'semiring_domain']

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4. The Four-Pillar Quadrilateral & Non-Claims

Every contract in simplex-normal-forms is evaluated against the Four-Pillar Quadrilateral defined in contracts/_golden_nfs/standard.yaml:

Pillar	Requirement	Contract Specification for nf.evidence.provenance
Pillar I: Excludes Anomaly	Name and eliminate a specific class of data or state defects.	unprovenanced tuple derivation
Pillar II: Preserves Invariant	State the structural invariant and protected skeleton preserved across transitions.	Invariant: query tuples map to elements in a declared algebraic semiring Protected Skeleton: ['tuple_provenance_map', 'semiring_domain']
Pillar III: Lossless Reconstruction	State the non-loss reconstruction operator (join, direct sum, pullback, or replay).	Lossless reconstruction under declared projection, direct sum, or pullback operators.
Pillar IV: Syntactic Decidability	State how conformance is decided from declared constraints without unbudgeted scans.	Decidable from declared schema and witness metadata within bounded evaluation budgets.

Explicit Non-Claims (certified_implies_authorized: false)

• does not ensure under declared assumptions privacy or security policies are satisfied by provenance annotations alone

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5. Operational Verification & Terminal Routing

5.1 Required Declarations

• semiring_operators
• identity_elements

5.2 Required Evidence

• tuple_derivations
• semiring_annotations

5.3 Validation Criteria

Criterion ID	Name	Condition
criterion	Check	algebraic properties of semiring (distributivity, commutativity) hold under projection/join rewrites
criterion	Check	unknown provenance terminalizes rather than guessing values

5.4 Terminal Route Map

Every evaluation terminates in a declared local route mapped to a canonical terminal in standard.yaml:

Local Terminal Route	Canonical Terminal
ProvenanceValid	Preserve
ProvenanceUnknown	BudgetUnknown
SemiringViolation	Reject
Refuse	Refuse

5.5 Declared Failure Modes

• symptom: query result contains tuples whose provenance annotations violate semiring distributivity, diagnosis: unprovenanced tuple derivation, terminal: SemiringViolation

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6. Epistemic Claim Hygiene Quadrant

In accordance with the repository's epistemic claim discipline:

1. What it supports:
   • Supports syntactic and operational checking of nf.evidence.provenance (ProvF) against its declared schema, boundary constraints, and witness obligations in this model.
   • Supports deterministic terminal routing (ProvenanceValid, ProvenanceUnknown, SemiringViolation, Refuse) when required declarations or invariants fail.
2. What it does not support:
   • Does not confer operational authority (AuthorityEffect: None, certified_implies_authorized: false).
   • Does not claim semantic truth of undeclared external processes or unverified upstream inputs beyond the declaredprotected skeleton.
3. The narrowest defensible claim:
   • Within the declared substrate at_rest, this contract enforces that unprovenanced tuple derivation is either excluded under query tuples map to elements in a declared algebraic semiring or routed to an explicit refusal/recovery terminal.
4. The next test needed:
   • Property-based falsification and mutation testing across boundary edge cases and composed multi-step pipelines for nf.evidence.provenance.

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7. Canonical YAML Contract (contracts/nf.evidence.provenance.yaml)

Click to expand full canonical YAML contract (contracts/nf.evidence.provenance.yaml)

schema_version: smplx.nf.contract.v0
contract_kind: normal_form_contract
identity:
  id: nf.evidence.provenance
  name: Provenance Form
  short_name: ProvF
  version: v0
  status: draft
  family: evidence
  theory_status: proposed
  contract_status: draft
  verification_status: absent
classification:
  hierarchy_level: form
  subject_kind:
  - certificate_packet
  data_posture: at_rest
  mathematical_posture: operational
purpose:
  excludes_anomaly: unprovenanced tuple derivation
  preserves_invariant: query tuples map to elements in a declared algebraic semiring
  protected_skeleton:
  - tuple_provenance_map
  - semiring_domain
  erased_structure: []
  non_claims:
  - does not ensure under declared assumptions privacy or security policies are satisfied by provenance annotations
    alone
declarations_required:
- semiring_operators
- identity_elements
evidence_required:
- tuple_derivations
- semiring_annotations
validation_criteria:
- algebraic properties of semiring (distributivity, commutativity) hold under projection/join
  rewrites
- unknown provenance terminalizes rather than guessing values
proof_obligations: []
terminal_routes:
- ProvenanceValid
- ProvenanceUnknown
- SemiringViolation
- Refuse
certification:
  certificate_required: false
  certificate_kind: null
  obstruction_class_required: false
  loss_ledger_required: false
  verifier_required: true
authorization:
  authorized_by: null
  certified_implies_authorized: false
failure_modes:
- symptom: query result contains tuples whose provenance annotations violate semiring
    distributivity
  diagnosis: unprovenanced tuple derivation
  terminal: SemiringViolation
references:
- ../1_normal_forms.md
- ../nf.coda.mur.transport.yaml
terminal_route_map:
  ProvenanceValid: Preserve
  ProvenanceUnknown: BudgetUnknown
  SemiringViolation: Reject
  Refuse: Refuse
definition:
  source: coda_all_universe/mssn_sn_tower/definitions.md
  formal_statement: unprovenanced tuple derivation. query tuples map to elements in
    a declared algebraic semiring
  quadrilateral:
    qualifies_as_true_normal_form: false
    qualification_gap: reconstruction_is_not_a_relational_project_join
    anomaly_exclusion: unprovenanced tuple derivation
    lossless_join:
      status: declared_reconstruction
      statement: query tuples map to elements in a declared algebraic semiring
    dependency_preservation:
      status: declared_with_the_invariant
      statement: The preserved invariant stays on the declared schema. This form does
        not state a functional-dependency projection of a flat relvar decomposition.
    syntactic_decision:
      status: declaration_decidable
      statement: The check reads the declared constraints and validation criteria.
        One unrecorded runtime image is not the decider.
schema_ref: ./normal_form_contract_schema.yaml