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Publication decision record — v0.1.0 draft candidate

Decision status: not approved
External publication: not authorized
Official numeric output: prohibited Independence stage: I0 — founding stewardship; no Commission or independent governance is operational

Complete this record for the exact source manifest. A founding-steward signature cannot waive a failed specialist gate.

This is an unsigned template, not a decision record. An unassigned role, unchecked item, blank signature, repository commit, passing software test, or deployed preview must never be interpreted as approval.

Candidate identity

Field	Value
Release ID	`fde-benchmark-0.1.0-draft-candidate`
Source-manifest digest	Draft source manifest present; regenerate after candidate files freeze and before approval
Git tag / commit	Local Git repository exists; remote, immutable commit reference, and release tag pending
Archive / DOI	Pending
Intended public URL	`https://fdebenchmark.org` (canonical since September 3, 2026; live indexable public draft, formerly `benchmark.lockedinlabs.ai`)
Proposed publication date	Pending
FDE Benchmark Commission	Proposed; not seated; not required to approve a synthetic-only GL-1/GL-2 draft but required before any future official human output
Structural-entity decision	Not conducted; required before any future official human assessment, tier, or credential, not asserted as a universal incorporation requirement

Citable-authority packet

Artifact	Candidate state	Release requirement
Root and public `CITATION.cff`	Present for draft inspection	Confirm exact byte parity, title/version, corporate and individual authorship, canonical URL, license, archive, and persistent identifier for the approved candidate
Authors and contributors record	Present; individual authors, guarantor, and reviewers unassigned	Approved authorship, CRediT roles, affiliations, accountability acceptance, corresponding contact, and review records
Publication disclosures	Present; funding, person-specific conflicts, licenses, and operational routes incomplete	Signed funding, competing-interest, AI-use, ethics/privacy, licensing, data/materials, and review statements
Prospective job-analysis preregistration	Draft candidate only; not registered	Permanent study ID, frozen protocol, named accountable roles, ethics/privacy decision, independent review, immutable registration receipt, and recruitment authorization
Synthetic reproducibility demonstration	Executable synthetic fixture; runner verifies frozen output and direct-input SHA-256 receipts	Approved environment receipt, current package and release manifests, retained output log, and exact limitation language
Archive / DOI / canonical publication	Not assigned or approved	Preservation owner, archive deposit, DOI or declared identifier policy, canonical URL, version links, and citation-resolution check
Corrections and reporting routes	Policies drafted; monitored routes not operational	Public corrections route plus private security and conduct routes, owners, service levels, monitoring, and test receipts
Named reviewer intake and signed dispositions	Appointment/review protocol and strict schema present; no real record	Verified person, qualifications, conflicts, independent assessment, exact scope/material digests, findings, response, signed disposition, access closeout
Research-operations receipts	Strict schemas and synthetic held fixtures present	Real fieldwork, claim, integrity, and archive receipts must be separately authorized; synthetic fixtures confer no authority

Presence is not a gate pass. The named release authority must review the final bytes and supporting receipts for each row.

Gate decisions

Gate	Accountable decision maker	Required evidence	Decision	Evidence reference
Measurement and claims	Named Head of Measurement plus independent reviewer	Construct/limitations review; no-score invariant; synthetic labels; claim substantiation	Not complete	Pending
Governance and conflicts	Named governance authority plus conflict officer	Founding-steward authority; independence-stage statement; conflicts/recusals; funding register; role-firewall boundary; decision minutes; no unsupported independent/official claim	Not complete	Pending
Privacy and data governance	Named privacy owner plus qualified counsel/DPO as applicable	Data-flow/retention review; no real data; participant-facing claims; future-use boundaries	Not complete	Pending
Security	Named security owner plus independent reviewer	Threat review; secret/dependency scans; reporting channel; no-intake boundary	Not complete	Pending
Accessibility	Named accessibility owner plus independent specialist	WCAG 2.2 AA automated/manual evidence; keyboard, screen reader, zoom/reflow, contrast, reduced motion	Not complete	Pending
Legal and employment use	Qualified counsel	Trademark/name; marketing claims; intended licenses; employment/AI/privacy posture; terms	Not complete	Pending
Licensing and provenance	Named licensing owner plus counsel	Operative content/code licenses; contributor rights; third-party asset/source ledger	Not complete	Pending
Editorial/research integrity	Named editorial owner plus independent methods editor	Source ledger; citation/metadata; failure/correction/retraction paths; publication copy audit	Not complete	Pending
Engineering quality	Named engineering owner	Clean install; schema/contract/scorer/evaluator/type/build/link/claims/security tests; browser evidence	Not complete	Pending
Operations	Named publication owner	Hosting target; domain/DNS; monitoring; rollback; status page; reporting channels	Not complete	Hosting, custom domain, and TLS are live. CI, commit-pinned deployment, live-verification, monitoring, and rollback controls exist in source; repository/environment activation, named owners, rollback drill, status page, and reporting channels remain pending.

Allowed decisions are pass, conditional pass with an expiring noncritical condition, or fail. A critical gate cannot be conditional. Attach evidence; a checked box without an artifact is not a pass.

Final decision

Every critical gate passed for this exact manifest.
Any conditional noncritical item has an owner, deadline, and rollback/hold rule.
Release copy and screenshots match the tested build.
Live Versus Planned and the changelog were updated.
Licenses, private reporting routes, and owner identities are operational.
Root and deployed CITATION.cff resolve to the exact approved title, version, authorship, archive, and identifier.
Authors, contributors, reviewers, guarantor, funding, conflicts, AI use, rights, and corrections ownership are approved for the exact candidate.
The reproducibility log and all package digests match the exact approved source bytes.
Publication does not activate intake, scoring, verification, credentials, or employment use.
Publication states independence stage I0, does not imply the proposed Commission is seated, and does not use “official,” “independent,” “certified,” or “accredited” beyond the exact negative-status boundary.
Training, employment, staffing/recruiting, sales, services, platform, and benchmark roles are disclosed without presenting a commercial pathway as neutral benchmark authority.
Named reviews conform to the review protocol and no review wording exceeds the signed scope.
Every public claim resolves to a current receipt for its exact wording and surfaces.
Archive deposit passes independent download, checksum, metadata, identifier-resolution, canonical-link, and preservation verification.
Public correction, private security, and participant/conduct routes have named owners and current end-to-end test receipts.

Authority	Name	Decision	Date	Signature / decision-record reference
Founding steward	Unassigned	Not approved	—	—
Release manager	Unassigned	Not approved	—	—

If any input, source byte, gate evidence, or public claim changes after approval, regenerate the manifest and repeat the affected gate decisions.