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Evidence without inflated claims

PKG records seven distinct evidence levels. A higher level is never inferred from a lower one.

Current observable state

Recorded crawler requests
200
LLM probe runs
5098
Extracted citations
23711
Proof bundles
1125

The crawler records currently include administrator-reported aggregates and are marked as discovery evidence, not citation proof.

P0-P6 evidence ladder

  1. P0 Published: A stable URL answers with a content type, a timestamp and a hash.
  2. P1 Accessible: External HTTP access without authentication and without client-side rendering.
  3. P2 Crawled: A crawler requested a specific resource, and the request was checked against the provider's published ranges or reverse DNS.
  4. P3 Retrieved: A resource fetch is traceable to a user-triggered query.
  5. P4 Cited: An observed AI answer contains the URL.
  6. P5 Fact matched: An answer reproduces a versioned, source-backed value from the record.
  7. P6 Answer influenced: A controlled experiment with one changed factor supports causal influence.

What a level does not mean

Version and changes

Version 1.0, 2026-09-21. The same definitions as data: methodology.json.

1.0 · 2026-09-21
First versioned publication. The seven levels were in use from 26.07.2026; this fixes their wording and publishes them as JSON.

Observed crawler records

AuthorityPrompt boundary

AuthorityPrompt establishes and measures the company-level delivery and citation layer. PKG separately records requests to product resources. The two traces will be compared by URL, timestamp, provider, version and evidence level.