Governance packs with receipts

if.gov

Decision packs designed to survive adversarial review — bound to if.trace receipts so third parties can verify the bytes you published.

This is not a compliance guarantee. It’s a verifiable packaging layer: scope, evidence, assumptions, and deltas.

Status (black/white): if.gov is preview on this host; the runtime is in preview tonight.

Black / white
What receipts prove
  • The bytes you download match the hashes on the public receipt.
  • A stable, no-login evidence link exists for disputes and audits.
What receipts do not prove
  • Factual correctness, policy effectiveness, or intent.
  • Compliance scope, certification, or legal sufficiency.

Deliberation timing targets (preview)

Design targets for convening a decision loop: triage and council in milliseconds; extended adapts from ms → minutes when real-time verification or supplemental data is required.

if.gov.triage

milliseconds target

  • Local-only routing + stop conditions
  • Decide: stop / hold / escalate (council vs extended)
  • Outputs: scope + assumptions + “what must be verified before approval”
if.gov.council

milliseconds target

  • Bounded options + explicit vote artifact
  • Preview roster: coded seats + simulated roles (see note below)
  • Delegates real-time verification to extended when needed
  • Outputs: decision pack with risks/controls + evidence links + receipts
if.gov.council.extended

adaptive: ms → minutes

  • May seek supplemental data for the question at hand
  • Duration depends on real-time verification/research needs
  • Adds expert findings + responses + deltas (new receipt on updated output)

Black/white: timing targets are design intent only; they do not imply a deployed runtime or measured latency on this host.

Preview runtime (tonight): the council runs with coded seats (pragmatist + contrarian voting) plus a non-voting jester; other roles are simulated and will be replaced over time by static JSON personas grounded in empirical data.

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