{"schema":"quox.evidence.item/1","claim_id":null,"computed_status":null,"status_history":[],"issuer":"Quox","open_findings":[],"withheld_findings":0,"citations":[],"id":"artifact:public-facts","kind":"artifact","statement":"The public machine-readable facts file (facts.json), witnessed in a WARD chain with an offline-verifiable receipt.","not_claimed":"Not a claim that every statement inside it is independently verified; each claim carries its own status.","status":"published","status_note":"28 claim(s) indexed in the registry; only owner-approved evidence is attached.","independent":{"kind":"self","note":"Witnessed by a Quox-held WARD signer; external corroboration (TSA token, public git history) is named in facts.json witness block."},"dates":{"first":"2026-10-23","latest":"2026-10-23","as_of":"2026-10-23"},"freshness":{"staleness_days":null,"stale":null,"expires":null,"as_of":"2026-10-23"},"evidence":[{"type":"artifact","url":"/facts.json","label":"facts.json"},{"type":"ward-receipt","url":"/facts.receipt.json","label":"WARD receipt"}],"limitations":"The receipt embeds its own signing key; out-of-band witnesses (RFC-3161 token, public git history) corroborate it.","cannot_establish":"A valid signature proves this record is authentic and unmodified; it does NOT prove the system behaved correctly. It does not establish that the claims listed inside facts.json are true.","capabilities":["facts","artifact"],"verify":{"method":"ward-receipt","artifact_url":"/facts.json","receipt_url":"/facts.receipt.json","public_key":null,"public_key_source":"embedded in /facts.receipt.json (WARD tip signer; corroborated out of band by the public TSA token and git history named in facts.json witness)","locator":{"file":"/facts.json","path":"$"},"verifier_cmd":null,"reproduction":"Fetch /facts.json and /facts.receipt.json. sha256(facts.json bytes) must equal receipt.facts_sha256 and ward_entry.payload_hash. Recompute ward_entry.chain_hash per WARD SPEC section 4.4 (canonical JSON of the ten hash-body fields). Verify ward_tip.sig is an Ed25519 signature over the raw bytes of ward_tip.tip_chain_hash by receipt.public_key. Then confirm the item exists in facts.json at the locator with the same claim_id. A match proves the record is unmodified since witnessing, not that the claim is correct.","browser_verifiable":true},"detail":{"claims_indexed":28},"human_url":"/evidence/explore#artifact:public-facts","machine_url":"/evidence/items/artifact:public-facts.json","api_url":"/api/evidence/artifact:public-facts","contract":{"authentic_is_not_correct":"A valid signature or a recomputed hash proves a record is authentic and unmodified. It does not prove the system behaved correctly or that a finding list is complete.","independence":"self = issued by Quox and recomputable by anyone, not audited by a third party. visitor-recomputable = the reader recomputes it offline from published material. external = an outside party issued or hosts the primary record. Quox-verified is never independently verified.","curated_status":"status OWNER-APPROVED means the owner approved the wording for publication. It is not a computed VERIFIED status. computed_status, where present, is computed from proof-engine runs and is reported separately.","verify_caveat":"authentic != correct. A valid signature proves this record is authentic and unmodified; it does NOT prove the system behaved correctly."}}