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ardguard-0.1.0b1/CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes follow Keep a Changelog conventions. Versions follow semantic
+versioning with Python prerelease identifiers.
+
+## [0.1.0b1] - 2026-09-09
+
+### Added
+
+- Versioned Candidate, TaskContract, FactSet, Policy, CandidateVerdict, and Decision
+  contracts.
+- Deterministic eligibility composition across capability, evidence applicability, and
+  operator-defined authority facts.
+- Rank-preserving fallback with explicit `SELECT`, `DEFER`, `ABSTAIN`, and `ERROR`
+  outcomes.
+- Stable reason codes and a deterministic decision body hash.
+- ARD v0.91 and hf-discover 1.3.7 adapters pinned to exact upstream commits.
+- Offline demo, doctor, validation, evaluation, explanation, support, and adapter CLI
+  commands.
+- Experimental network-denied PyPI and Sigstore command-provider boundary with exact
+  artifact naming, explicit trust seeds, and typed operational errors.
+- JSON Schemas, integration examples, security model, support matrix, contribution
+  policy, package hygiene checks, and Trusted Publishing workflow.
+
+### Security
+
+- Relevance scores cannot establish eligibility.
+- Input observations cannot assert final eligibility.
+- Missing facts and provider failures fail closed.
+- Operational verifier errors cannot become cryptographic invalidity.
+- Evidence subject, selected resource, artifact digest, signer, trust, and predicate
+  checks remain distinct.
+- The package never installs or invokes a selected resource.

ardguard-0.1.0b1/CITATION.cff

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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "Citation metadata for the ARDGuard software release."
+title: ARDGuard
+authors:
+  - family-names: Chauhan
+    given-names: Lokesh
+    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1544-6424"
+type: software
+version: 0.1.0b1
+license: Apache-2.0
+repository-code: "https://github.com/lokesh0186/ardguard"
+url: "https://github.com/lokesh0186/ardguard"
+abstract: "ARDGuard is a deterministic eligibility and fallback layer between agentic resource discovery and final selection or invocation."
+keywords:
+  - agentic-resource-discovery
+  - security
+  - eligibility
+  - policy
+  - fallback

ardguard-0.1.0b1/CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing
+
+ARDGuard welcomes small, reviewable improvements backed by deterministic tests.
+
+## Useful contributions
+
+- adapter compatibility fixes with pinned real wire fixtures;
+- provider implementations with explicit observation and provenance contracts;
+- reason-code and explanation improvements;
+- malformed-input and fail-closed regressions;
+- integration examples that preserve external ranking and caller-owned invocation;
+- documentation and first-run ergonomics.
+
+Open an issue before adding a new trust surface, network behavior, policy language,
+registry, installer, or invocation mechanism.
+
+## Development setup
+
+```bash
+python3.12 -m venv .venv
+.venv/bin/pip install -e '.[dev]'
+.venv/bin/ruff check .
+.venv/bin/mypy src/ardguard
+.venv/bin/pytest --cov=ardguard --cov-branch
+```
+
+Run package checks before a pull request:
+
+```bash
+.venv/bin/python -m build
+.venv/bin/python scripts/check_package.py dist
+```
+
+## Required boundaries
+
+- Do not add automatic resource installation or invocation.
+- Do not convert relevance scores into trust or eligibility.
+- Do not let callers or providers submit a final eligibility verdict.
+- Do not turn absence, unavailability, or operational error into success.
+- Do not collapse evidence authenticity and applicability.
+- Do not add implicit network access or telemetry.
+- Do not commit credentials, private evidence, local absolute paths, or generated
+  package artifacts.
+
+Security-relevant changes need a failing-before and passing-after test. Changed
+security-critical modules should retain at least 90 percent branch coverage. Do not
+delete, skip, or weaken a regression to satisfy CI.
+
+## Pull requests
+
+Keep each pull request focused. State the exact contract or compatibility behavior,
+include the pinned upstream version when applicable, and explain any public schema or
+reason-code impact. Public claims should describe reproduced behavior without calling
+an external project insecure.

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ardguard-0.1.0b1/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: ardguard
+Version: 0.1.0b1
+Summary: Eligibility-aware final selection and fallback for agentic resource discovery
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/lokesh0186/ardguard
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/lokesh0186/ardguard
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+Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/lokesh0186/ardguard/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
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+Author: Lokesh Chauhan
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+Keywords: agentic-resources,fallback,policy,resource-discovery,security
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+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
+Classifier: Topic :: Security
+Requires-Python: <3.14,>=3.10
+Requires-Dist: jsonschema<5,>=4.23
+Provides-Extra: dev
+Requires-Dist: build<2,>=1.2; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: mypy<3,>=1.15; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: pytest-cov<8,>=5; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: pytest<10,>=8; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: ruff<1,>=0.11; extra == 'dev'
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+# ARDGuard
+
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ardguard)](https://pypi.org/project/ardguard/)
+[![Python compatibility](https://github.com/lokesh0186/ardguard/actions/workflows/python-compat.yml/badge.svg?branch=main)](https://github.com/lokesh0186/ardguard/actions/workflows/python-compat.yml)
+[![Python](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/ardguard)](https://pypi.org/project/ardguard/)
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/ardguard)](LICENSE)
+
+**ARDGuard adds an eligibility boundary between agentic resource discovery and final use.**
+
+It consumes ranked discovery results, evaluates independently established task-specific
+capability, evidence, and authority observations, and selects the highest-ranked
+eligible resource or returns an explicit defer, abstain, or error decision. It never
+installs or invokes the selected resource.
+
+> **Status:** `0.1.0b1` Beta 1. The deterministic core and static observation path are
+> supported. The sandboxed PyPI and Sigstore command provider is experimental. See the
+> [support matrix](docs/SUPPORTED_SCOPE.md) before production use.
+
+```bash
+python -m pip install ardguard==0.1.0b1
+ardguard demo
+```
+
+```text
+ARDGuard offline demo (illustrative)
+rank 1: relevant but capability-ineligible
+rank 2: eligible
+top-ranked-only validation: ABSTAIN
+ARDGuard: SELECT urn:air:example.org:tool:rank-two
+reason: selection.fallback_to_lower_ranked_eligible
+invocation: NOT PERFORMED
+```
+
+Relevance answers **which resource looks useful**. Eligibility answers **which resource
+may this agent use for this task**.
+
+## Put it after discovery
+
+```text
+ARD-compatible discovery backend
+              |
+              v
+       ranked candidates
+              |
+              v
+          ARDGuard
+  facts + policy + fallback
+              |
+              v
+ SELECT / DEFER / ABSTAIN / ERROR
+              |
+              v
+      caller owns invocation
+```
+
+ARDGuard does not replace ARD, hf-discover, relevance ranking, Sigstore, OAuth, or
+Kubernetes RBAC. It makes the consumer's final eligibility decision explicit.
+
+## JSON in, decision JSON out
+
+Prepare a task contract, policy, and observations, then evaluate any supported ARD
+SearchResponse:
+
+```bash
+hf-discover search "read customer records" --json > discovery.json
+
+ardguard evaluate \
+  --adapter hf-discover \
+  --discovery-response discovery.json \
+  --task task.json \
+  --policy policy.json \
+  --facts facts.json \
+  --output decision.json
+
+ardguard explain decision.json
+```
+
+Example decision:
+
+```json
+{
+  "outcome": "SELECT",
+  "reason": "selection.fallback_to_lower_ranked_eligible",
+  "selected_candidate_id": "urn:air:example.org:tool:rank-two",
+  "selected_rank": 2
+}
+```
+
+The actual decision document also contains every candidate verdict, stable reason
+codes, provider identities, preserved backend scores, and a deterministic body hash.
+
+## Python integration
+
+```python
+from ardguard import FactSet, Policy, TaskContract, evaluate
+from ardguard.adapters import parse_search_response
+
+candidates = parse_search_response(discovery_response)
+decision = evaluate(
+    candidates=candidates,
+    task=TaskContract.from_mapping(task_document),
+    policy=Policy.from_mapping(policy_document),
+    facts=FactSet.from_mapping(fact_document),
+)
+
+if decision.outcome.value == "SELECT":
+    # The caller may now decide whether and how to invoke the resource.
+    print(decision.selected_candidate_id)
+```
+
+## Why fallback matters
+
+A top-ranked-only validator can reject an ineligible first result, but it also abandons
+the task when a lower-ranked candidate is eligible. ARDGuard evaluates the configured
+candidate set, preserves the backend's rank among eligible candidates, and returns the
+highest-ranked eligible candidate. It does not manufacture or reinterpret relevance
+scores.
+
+## Contracts, not self-asserted eligibility
+
+Public callers supply observations, not `eligible: true`. ARDGuard derives candidate
+verdicts from versioned contracts:
+
+- `TaskContract` states required operations, evidence, and authority limits.
+- `FactSet` binds typed observations to candidate and provider identities.
+- `Policy` controls required checks, uncertainty, and fallback.
+- `Decision` reports `SELECT`, `DEFER`, `ABSTAIN`, or `ERROR` with stable reasons.
+
+Missing facts, unavailable verifiers, and operational errors fail closed. An
+operational verifier failure is never reported as an invalid signature. Authentic
+evidence for artifact A never makes candidate B eligible.
+
+## Commands
+
+| Command | Purpose |
+| --- | --- |
+| `ardguard demo` | Run the deterministic offline fallback example. |
+| `ardguard doctor` | Report package, schema, adapter, and provider readiness. |
+| `ardguard validate` | Validate task, fact, policy, decision, ARD, or hf-discover JSON. |
+| `ardguard evaluate` | Produce a deterministic decision without invocation. |
+| `ardguard explain` | Validate the decision hash and explain its reason. |
+| `ardguard support` | Print the tested support matrix. |
+| `ardguard adapters` | Print exact adapter compatibility records. |
+
+## Documentation
+
+- [Five-minute integration guide](docs/INTEGRATION_GUIDE.md)
+- [Architecture](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md)
+- [Security model](docs/SECURITY_MODEL.md)
+- [Supported scope](docs/SUPPORTED_SCOPE.md)
+- [Decision and reason codes](docs/DECISIONS.md)
+- [Fact providers](docs/FACT_PROVIDERS.md)
+- [ARD v0.91 compatibility](docs/ARD_COMPATIBILITY.md)
+- [hf-discover integration](docs/HF_DISCOVER.md)
+- [Evidence](docs/EVIDENCE.md)
+- [Authority policy](docs/AUTHORITY.md)
+
+## Examples
+
+- [Basic capability decision](examples/basic/README.md)
+- [Rank-preserving fallback](examples/fallback/README.md)
+- [Authentic but non-applicable evidence](examples/evidence/README.md)
+- [Authority-aware fallback](examples/authority/README.md)
+- [ARD v0.91 SearchResponse](examples/ard_search_response/README.md)
+- [Pinned hf-discover response](examples/hf_discover/search-response-1.3.7.json)
+
+## Development
+
+```bash
+python3.12 -m venv .venv
+.venv/bin/pip install -e '.[dev]'
+.venv/bin/pytest
+.venv/bin/ruff check .
+.venv/bin/mypy src/ardguard
+```
+
+Small compatibility fixtures, provider implementations, reason-code improvements,
+and reproducible interoperability reports are welcome. Read [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)
+and [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md) first.
+
+## License
+
+Apache License 2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) and [NOTICE](NOTICE).