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
- 7
- LLM probe runs
- 3
- Extracted citations
- 18
- Proof bundles
- 0
P0-P6 evidence ladder
- P0 Published: stable URL, content type, timestamp and hash.
- P1 Accessible: external HTTP access without authentication or required client-side rendering.
- P2 Crawled: verified crawler request to a specific resource.
- P3 Retrieved: traceable resource fetch for a user-triggered query.
- P4 Cited: explicit URL in an observed AI answer.
- P5 Fact matched: an answer reproduces a versioned source-backed fact.
- P6 Answer influenced: a controlled experiment supports causal influence.
Observed crawler records
- GPTBot · 1 request(s) · 2026-07-25T00:00:00.000Z · reported_by_admin · discovery
- Applebot · 1 request(s) · 2026-07-25T00:00:00.000Z · reported_by_admin · discovery
- ClaudeBot · 5 request(s) · 2026-07-25T00:00:00.000Z · reported_by_admin · discovery
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.