KRINEIA HUMMBL Proof

Open standard · Draft

Judgment leaves
a receipt.

KRINEIA is a draft open standard for append-only, cryptographically chained governance receipts: a durable record of who observed a decision, what they claimed, and which exact bytes came before it.

Read the invariants See the assurance boundary

v1.0-rc2 invariants · v2.1 signed receipt schema proposed

CHAIN / 0042
040
observedecision.requested
7d9a…31c2
041
appenddecision.recorded
3f08…9ab1
042
reviewdeviation.examined
e14b…700d

Illustrative structure · not a live chain

01 / Premise

A log can describe the past.
A receipt can be tested against it.

A KRINEIA receipt binds an observer’s signed claim about an actor, state, time, and deviation to a hash-linked record. The chain makes changes visible. It does not make the observer infallible.

02 / Five invariants

The shape of the standard

These declared properties distinguish a tamper-evident governance record from a self-referential optimization target.

  1. 01

    Append only

    The record grows. Existing receipts are neither rewritten nor deleted.

  2. 02

    No reward-path self-reference

    Receipt contents never enter an agent’s reward, gradient, or training signal.

  3. 03

    Minimal operators

    Exactly three operations—append, project, and cut—keep the boundary legible.

  4. 04

    External analysis

    The record is inspected after the fact by tools outside the observed system.

  5. 05

    Separate trust roots

    The observed actor does not control the process that writes its receipt.

03 / Operators

Three verbs. No hidden fourth.

append()

Add evidence

Extend a chain with one new, linked receipt.

project()

Read a view

Derive an inspectable view without changing the record.

cut()

Bound a slice

Select a reviewable segment while preserving its provenance.

04 / Assurance boundary

Integrity is a precise claim.

A valid chain can show internal consistency: receipt hashes match, links connect, and signatures verify under the supplied registry. It cannot prove that the described event occurred or that the observer told the truth.

Can test exact bytes, links, signatures, and a retained head/count checkpoint.

Does not prove event truth, observer competence, or completeness without an external checkpoint.

05 / Current state

Open to inspect.
Careful about claims.

Invariants

v1.0-rc2

Signed schema

v2.1 proposed

Current chain

unsigned v0.1 legacy format

Reference tools

watcher and verifier in the canonical repository

Strict v2.1 is proposed until its constitutional amendment, external receipt, and ratification are complete. Legacy structural inspection remains explicitly unauthenticated.

06 / Constellation

A peer satellite in the HUMMBL mesh.

KRINEIA stays runtime-agnostic so systems beyond HUMMBL can adopt the standard. HUMMBL depends on KRINEIA; KRINEIA does not import HUMMBL.

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