Engineering acceptance
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The scope and authority required for a meaningful acceptance disposition.
Engineering acceptance asks whether the retained evidence contains an authoritative disposition for the exact candidate. It is a different question from “did its checks pass?”
The frozen Project 03 examples make the distinction concrete:
- Operations: verification
SUCCESS_OBSERVED, engineering acceptanceESTABLISHED, supported by explicit candidate-specific review records. - Processor: verification
SUCCESS_OBSERVED, acceptanceNOT_ESTABLISHED. - Replication Projection: verification
SUCCESS_OBSERVED, acceptanceUNKNOWN.
The only ESTABLISHED acceptance in the frozen 15-repository comparison is Operations; do not infer a common approval policy across repositories. NOT_ESTABLISHED is not rejection. UNKNOWN is not a synonym for it. Preserve the source’s unresolved state rather than making a binary decision the evidence does not support.
Acceptance of a W0–W8 evidence package is also different from engineering acceptance of the software. A reviewed package can faithfully preserve failed checks, uncertainty or missing authority.
Read the connected investigation and Candidate verification. Neither a model explanation nor a proposed action establishes acceptance; see Agent vs deterministic inspector.
Research basis: original connected Project 03 story/concept and frozen schema-v1.1 comparison. Exact private tab, range, screenshot and claim pointers are retained in the internal review matrix; no source-workbook links are published.
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Completion and acceptance · 5 linked pages
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- A local model can explain a record without being trusted with itlinks out
- Candidate verificationboth ways
- A small evaluation is not a deploymentlinks here
- What the records establish across 15 repositoriesboth ways
- Passing checks and software acceptance are different findingsboth ways
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- Candidate verificationlinks here
- Noteslinks here
- A small evaluation is not a deploymentlinks here
- What the records establish across 15 repositorieslinks here
- Passing checks and software acceptance are different findingslinks here