Agent Assurance Case v0.2-candidate.8

Agent Assurance Case v0.2-candidate.8

Supersedes v0.2-candidate.7 without rewriting public history. No schema, verdict, or signature semantics changed — this is a release-hardening candidate.

Highlights

• Reproducible publication gate: the runtime dependency lock is now cross-platform and time-stable (uv pip compile --universal --exclude-newer), with a scripts/regenerate_dependency_lock.sh helper, so VERIFY-PUBLICATION-READY.sh reproduces from a clean clone on any platform.
• Tighter, honest framing: README tagline softened to "audit-oriented (draft)"; the constrained RFC 8785 (JCS) subset is disclosed in LIMITATIONS.md; new VALIDATION_BOUNDARY.md one-pager; explicit note that the DOI tag (not main) is the citable artifact.
• Hygiene: Hypothesis example DB kept out of the tree; .hypothesis/ covered by the junk gate.

Verify this release offline

git clone --branch v0.2-candidate.8 --depth 1 https://github.com/jlov7/agent-assurance-case
cd agent-assurance-case
python3 -m pip install -r verifier/requirements.txt -r verifier/requirements-dev.txt
./VERIFY-PUBLICATION-READY.sh
python3 verifier/check_vectors.py

This is personal, independent R&D — a draft specification and reference verifier, self-verified and not yet independently reviewed. It is not a certification. Critique welcome.