An open protocol and reference implementation for public claims, contributions, AI-reader notes, human review decisions, and visible revision history.
This page is the public anchor for NLnet-facing review of the proposed open-source layer. It describes the reusable ledger scope, planned deliverables, and current prototype evidence without treating the specification, license, or reference implementation as finished.
Civic Logos has completed its first founder-maintainer public-record revision. The next milestone is the first outside public contribution.
Count wording is intentionally split: the healthcare ledger currently has 1 formal RevisionEvent, while visible revision-trace updates may include supporting narrative checkpoints.
V2 candidate intake is active.
/ask does not change public counts, does not create RevisionEvents, and does not change synthesis.
Physics Foundations read-only asks are now supported from the existing public topic. They remain read-only unless the user explicitly contributes a candidate.
Prototype examples and founder-maintainer records stay labeled separately. The public runway now asks a stranger to make one useful objection, evidence source, correction, implementation concern, or economic assumption challenge.
The ledger is for claims that should not disappear into feeds. It keeps the current synthesis, the pressure against it, the evidence attached to it, and the human decisions that explain why the record changed or did not change.
Prototype ledger concepts are visible in the healthcare card now, and protocol v0.1 is being formalized in the repository through specs, schemas, fixtures, and conformance cases. A reference implementation is the next phase; the open-source release is planned, not presented as complete.
RoomRecordTopicRecordClaimRecordSynthesisSnapshotContributionRecordEvidenceObjectObjectionRecordAssumptionRecordOpenQuestionRecordAIReaderNoteHumanReviewDecisionAppealRecordAttachmentTargetRevisionEventMetricScoreAuditEventActorRecordContribution enters
classified into a lane
AI-reader notes are attached
human review decides placement
record attaches to claim, evidence, objection, assumption, or open question
synthesis changes only if warranted
before/after revision trace is preserved
Other civic-tech projects, newsrooms, public comment systems, research groups, and institutions should be able to reuse the ledger without adopting the entire Civic Logos product.
Grant-funded ledger code and documentation are intended to be released under recognized libre/open licenses. A final license should be named only after it is chosen.