Continuity Analyzer

Pre-action governance continuity analyzer with machine-readable failure codes and vocabulary-aligned semantics.

Continuity Analyzer is part of the Default Settlement machine trust infrastructure for autonomous systems. It answers the core trust question:

Is this still the same agent I trusted?

Default Settlement Context

Default Settlement provides machine trust infrastructure for autonomous systems: verifiable evidence, receipts, profiles, badges, and public trust reporting that let humans and machines evaluate whether an autonomous action matched the claimed specification and preserved the expected agent continuity.

Continuity Analyzer complements Specification Adherence Receipt (SAR) verification:

• SAR answers: did execution match the claimed specification?
• Continuity answers: did the same identity, authority, constraints, and execution context persist?

Evidence Lifecycle

Agent Activation -> SAR Verification -> Continuity Verification -> Chained Evidence -> Explorer Agent Profile -> Badge Verification -> Public Trust Report

Continuity Predicates

Continuity verification evaluates five predicates:

• object_continuity
• constraint_continuity
• temporal_continuity
• authority_continuity
• executor_continuity

Each predicate can produce one of three outcomes:

• pass
• fail
• unknown

Chained Evidence Fields

Continuity evidence can be chained to SAR evidence using fields such as:

• continuity_receipt_id
• sar_receipt_id
• verdict_correlation
• executor_continuity_status
• time_delta_seconds

Public Surfaces

Continuity Analyzer evidence can appear across Default Settlement public trust surfaces:

• SAR Explorer
• Agent Profiles
• Badge verification
• Public Trust Reports

Links

• Default Verifier
• Start
• Explorer
• Specification