Change validation

Validate an Intelligence change against a fixed decision corpus and explain every intended movement in candidates, component results, ranking, posture, confidence, regret, or authority.

Change-to-proof map

Change	Required proof	Downstream review
candidate schema, filter, or fingerprint	valid/invalid, duplicate, exclusion, missing, stable identity, complete universe	review packet and stored candidate consumers
component metric	orientation, scale, boundaries, missingness, explanation, sensitivity	policy composition and public report
ranking or selection policy	fixed corpus, normalized policy, ties, constraints, alternatives, deterministic order	recommendation posture and Lab handoff
contradiction, falsifier, or skeptical posture	adverse, irrelevant, conflicting, and unresolved cases	Knowledge evidence linkage
confidence or calibration	named corpus, predicted/observed relationship, drift and outside-envelope behavior	public confidence language
regret or consequence model	alternative actions, cost assumptions, boundary values, reversal cases	Lab burden and outcome evidence
learning or adaptation	immutable prior policy, outcome lineage, new policy identity, before/after corpus	historical review records
decision brief or review artifact	complete lineage, round trip, stable assembly, authority and refusal	reader and operator interpretation

Validation route

flowchart TD
    E["Intelligence edit"] --> F["freeze evidence, candidates, and prior policy"]
    F --> C["compare complete decision records"]
    C --> H["run adverse, sensitivity, calibration, and regret proof"]
    H --> O{"movement explained and bounded?"}
    O -->|yes| B["review artifact and boundary tests"]
    O -->|no| R["reject or narrow change"]
    B --> V["validated"]

Do not approve a change because benchmark recommendations moved toward an expected answer. Establish why they moved and which cases became weaker, stronger, held, or refused. Unexpected non-movement is also a finding when a new contradiction or cost should have changed posture.

Validation record

State evidence revision, candidate universe, prior and new normalized policy, changed components, ties and alternatives, challenge findings, sensitivity, calibration corpus, regret assumptions, posture, authority, exact checks, and unresolved drift. Preserve both decision records for policy changes.