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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: assurance-core
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Pure decision modules for enterprise task assurance — arithmetic, not models.
+Author-email: "I-Ops Operations Intelligence, LLC" <hello@i-ops.dev>
+License: Apache-2.0
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://i-ops.dev
+Project-URL: Source, https://github.com/i-ops-hq/assurance-core
+Keywords: ai-agents,governance,auditing,evaluation,assurance,rag
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+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 :: Software Development :: Quality Assurance
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Provides-Extra: dev
+Requires-Dist: pytest>=8.0; extra == "dev"
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# assurance-core
+
+**We don't score completion. We check it — against conditions declared before the run, by code that
+isn't the worker.**
+
+This repository publishes the pure decision modules from [I-Ops](https://i-ops.dev): the
+arithmetic that decides whether a task is complete, what was read, what may inform an answer, and
+what a run is allowed to do. **No model decides any of this.** If our claims are wrong, the code is
+right here.
+
+**Provenance:** cut from I-Ops `0.56.2` on 2026-08-28. I-Ops is upstream; this repo is a
+publication, never a source.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install assurance-core
+```
+
+Python 3.10 or newer. **Zero dependencies** — nothing is pulled in, nothing phones home.
+Not on PyPI yet, so until it is:
+
+```bash
+pip install git+https://github.com/i-ops-hq/assurance-core.git
+```
+
+## Use it in your own agent
+
+Two runnable examples in [`examples/`](examples). The first is the question almost nobody asks:
+
+```python
+from assurance_core.coverage import Coverage, EvidenceRef, Expectation
+
+# Declare what the task requires, BEFORE it runs.
+expected = [Expectation(key=f"2024-{m:02d}", label=f"{m:02d}/2024") for m in range(1, 13)]
+
+# Record what your agent actually opened, as it opens it.
+found = {e.key: EvidenceRef(key=e.key, path=f"/reports/{e.key}.csv", reader="my_agent")
+         for e in expected if e.key != "2024-03"}
+
+coverage = Coverage(scope_label="2024 monthly reports", expected=expected, found=found,
+                    missing=[e for e in expected if e.key not in found])
+
+print(coverage.summary())   # 11 of 12 2024 monthly reports — not in this folder: 03/2024
+print(coverage.complete)    # False
+```
+
+Every tool call can return 200 and the answer can still be built on eleven twelfths of the data.
+`coverage.complete` is the difference between a run that succeeded and a run that was *right*.
+
+The rest of the modules do the same job for other questions: `staleness` asks whether a document
+still matches the source it was made from, `admission` decides which retrieved sources may inform an
+answer, `task_contract` records what done means before the first step runs, and `policy` and
+`rule_of_two` decide what a run is allowed to do at all.
+
+**None of them import a model, and a test proves it** — see *Model independence is gated, not
+claimed* below.
+
+## What this is not
+
+- Not a runtime, agent framework, or installable product that does anything on its own
+- Not an orchestrator, not capabilities, not services, not UI, not MLX, not a database
+- Not a fork that will drift — changes are made in I-Ops and copied out deliberately
+
+Read the modules. Run the tests. That is the point.
+
+## The three legs
+
+### 1. Declared postconditions
+
+Before anything executes, the task contract states what *done* means in terms a machine can check.
+Each line is true or false. Partial completion is declared up front too.
+
+### 2. Independent verification
+
+A verifier reads the state of the world **outside** the run. The worker is never the judge. Where no
+verifier exists for a condition, the honest answer is **complete but unverified** — not verified.
+
+### 3. Evidence coverage
+
+> **Did the agent look at everything it was supposed to look at?**
+
+The harness works out, from the request and the folder — never from the model — which files the
+answer requires, records which ones were actually opened, and compares the two. A gap blocks verified
+completion.
+
+## Model independence is gated, not claimed
+
+The central promise is enforced by AST tests that walk each module and forbid model or service
+imports. Example — the gate on `coverage.py`:
+
+```python
+def test_coverage_never_consults_a_model():
+    import assurance_core.coverage as module
+
+    source = Path(module.__file__).read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    tree = ast.parse(source)
+
+    imported: list[str] = []
+    for node in ast.walk(tree):
+        if isinstance(node, ast.ImportFrom) and node.module:
+            imported.append(node.module)
+        elif isinstance(node, ast.Import):
+            imported.extend(a.name for a in node.names)
+
+    forbidden = [
+        name
+        for name in imported
+        if name.startswith("app.services")
+        or any(t in name for t in ("model_source", "vinci_client", "mlx", "openai", "anthropic"))
+    ]
+    assert not forbidden
+```
+
+The same pattern gates `admission.py` and `staleness.py`. A reader who sees a test that forbids the
+thing we promise not to do can trust the rest.
+
+## Honest limits
+
+A governance repo that oversells itself refutes its own thesis in public. Current limits:
+
+- **`verified_complete`** was unreachable by construction until real verifiers shipped; the vocabulary
+  exists so the honest answer is always available, but many conditions still have no verifier
+- **Source admission** is provenance-only; on a corpus with no tombstones or supersession events it
+  is inert — it admits everything with no provenance and excludes only what the record says to
+- **Standing staleness** compares recorded figures to a fresh recompute; it needs a prior artifact
+  record, which this library does not provide
+- **The rule of two** deliberately under-counts files inside an explicitly granted workspace; that is
+  a stated calibration trade-off, not an accident
+
+## Modules
+
+| Module | Question it answers |
+|---|---|
+| `coverage` | Did the worker read everything the task required? |
+| `staleness` | Do recorded figures still match the source? |
+| `admission` | Should this source inform the answer, given provenance? |
+| `verification` | What does *checked* mean for a postcondition? |
+| `run_outcome` | What actually happened, derived from structured signals? |
+| `task_contract` | What would count as done, declared before the run? |
+| `policy` · `principal` · `worker` · `effects` | Who may have which worker produce which effect? |
+| `rule_of_two` | Does this session hold too many risk properties at once? |
+| `run_budget` | Are loop, retry, and spend limits enforced by code? |
+| `report_period` | Which month does this request mean? |
+| `semantic_checks` | Deterministic figure and text checks |
+
+## Run the tests
+
+```bash
+python -m pytest -q
+python -c "import sys; assert not [m for m in sys.modules if m.startswith('app.')]"
+```
+
+## Licence
+
+Apache-2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
+
+## Contributing
+
+See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). Feature requests belong upstream.
+
+## Security
+
+See [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md).

assurance_core-0.1.0/README.md

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+# assurance-core
+
+**We don't score completion. We check it — against conditions declared before the run, by code that
+isn't the worker.**
+
+This repository publishes the pure decision modules from [I-Ops](https://i-ops.dev): the
+arithmetic that decides whether a task is complete, what was read, what may inform an answer, and
+what a run is allowed to do. **No model decides any of this.** If our claims are wrong, the code is
+right here.
+
+**Provenance:** cut from I-Ops `0.56.2` on 2026-08-28. I-Ops is upstream; this repo is a
+publication, never a source.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install assurance-core
+```
+
+Python 3.10 or newer. **Zero dependencies** — nothing is pulled in, nothing phones home.
+Not on PyPI yet, so until it is:
+
+```bash
+pip install git+https://github.com/i-ops-hq/assurance-core.git
+```
+
+## Use it in your own agent
+
+Two runnable examples in [`examples/`](examples). The first is the question almost nobody asks:
+
+```python
+from assurance_core.coverage import Coverage, EvidenceRef, Expectation
+
+# Declare what the task requires, BEFORE it runs.
+expected = [Expectation(key=f"2024-{m:02d}", label=f"{m:02d}/2024") for m in range(1, 13)]
+
+# Record what your agent actually opened, as it opens it.
+found = {e.key: EvidenceRef(key=e.key, path=f"/reports/{e.key}.csv", reader="my_agent")
+         for e in expected if e.key != "2024-03"}
+
+coverage = Coverage(scope_label="2024 monthly reports", expected=expected, found=found,
+                    missing=[e for e in expected if e.key not in found])
+
+print(coverage.summary())   # 11 of 12 2024 monthly reports — not in this folder: 03/2024
+print(coverage.complete)    # False
+```
+
+Every tool call can return 200 and the answer can still be built on eleven twelfths of the data.
+`coverage.complete` is the difference between a run that succeeded and a run that was *right*.
+
+The rest of the modules do the same job for other questions: `staleness` asks whether a document
+still matches the source it was made from, `admission` decides which retrieved sources may inform an
+answer, `task_contract` records what done means before the first step runs, and `policy` and
+`rule_of_two` decide what a run is allowed to do at all.
+
+**None of them import a model, and a test proves it** — see *Model independence is gated, not
+claimed* below.
+
+## What this is not
+
+- Not a runtime, agent framework, or installable product that does anything on its own
+- Not an orchestrator, not capabilities, not services, not UI, not MLX, not a database
+- Not a fork that will drift — changes are made in I-Ops and copied out deliberately
+
+Read the modules. Run the tests. That is the point.
+
+## The three legs
+
+### 1. Declared postconditions
+
+Before anything executes, the task contract states what *done* means in terms a machine can check.
+Each line is true or false. Partial completion is declared up front too.
+
+### 2. Independent verification
+
+A verifier reads the state of the world **outside** the run. The worker is never the judge. Where no
+verifier exists for a condition, the honest answer is **complete but unverified** — not verified.
+
+### 3. Evidence coverage
+
+> **Did the agent look at everything it was supposed to look at?**
+
+The harness works out, from the request and the folder — never from the model — which files the
+answer requires, records which ones were actually opened, and compares the two. A gap blocks verified
+completion.
+
+## Model independence is gated, not claimed
+
+The central promise is enforced by AST tests that walk each module and forbid model or service
+imports. Example — the gate on `coverage.py`:
+
+```python
+def test_coverage_never_consults_a_model():
+    import assurance_core.coverage as module
+
+    source = Path(module.__file__).read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    tree = ast.parse(source)
+
+    imported: list[str] = []
+    for node in ast.walk(tree):
+        if isinstance(node, ast.ImportFrom) and node.module:
+            imported.append(node.module)
+        elif isinstance(node, ast.Import):
+            imported.extend(a.name for a in node.names)
+
+    forbidden = [
+        name
+        for name in imported
+        if name.startswith("app.services")
+        or any(t in name for t in ("model_source", "vinci_client", "mlx", "openai", "anthropic"))
+    ]
+    assert not forbidden
+```
+
+The same pattern gates `admission.py` and `staleness.py`. A reader who sees a test that forbids the
+thing we promise not to do can trust the rest.
+
+## Honest limits
+
+A governance repo that oversells itself refutes its own thesis in public. Current limits:
+
+- **`verified_complete`** was unreachable by construction until real verifiers shipped; the vocabulary
+  exists so the honest answer is always available, but many conditions still have no verifier
+- **Source admission** is provenance-only; on a corpus with no tombstones or supersession events it
+  is inert — it admits everything with no provenance and excludes only what the record says to
+- **Standing staleness** compares recorded figures to a fresh recompute; it needs a prior artifact
+  record, which this library does not provide
+- **The rule of two** deliberately under-counts files inside an explicitly granted workspace; that is
+  a stated calibration trade-off, not an accident
+
+## Modules
+
+| Module | Question it answers |
+|---|---|
+| `coverage` | Did the worker read everything the task required? |
+| `staleness` | Do recorded figures still match the source? |
+| `admission` | Should this source inform the answer, given provenance? |
+| `verification` | What does *checked* mean for a postcondition? |
+| `run_outcome` | What actually happened, derived from structured signals? |
+| `task_contract` | What would count as done, declared before the run? |
+| `policy` · `principal` · `worker` · `effects` | Who may have which worker produce which effect? |
+| `rule_of_two` | Does this session hold too many risk properties at once? |
+| `run_budget` | Are loop, retry, and spend limits enforced by code? |
+| `report_period` | Which month does this request mean? |
+| `semantic_checks` | Deterministic figure and text checks |
+
+## Run the tests
+
+```bash
+python -m pytest -q
+python -c "import sys; assert not [m for m in sys.modules if m.startswith('app.')]"
+```
+
+## Licence
+
+Apache-2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
+
+## Contributing
+
+See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). Feature requests belong upstream.
+
+## Security
+
+See [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md).

assurance_core-0.1.0/assurance_core/__init__.py

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+"""Pure decision modules — arithmetic, not models."""

assurance_core-0.1.0/assurance_core/admission.py

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+r"""Whether a retrieved source may inform an answer — computed from provenance, never from content.
+
+Leg of the strategy docs §7: between binary grant admission and post-hoc
+groundedness, nothing said *which* retrieved chunk may shape the answer or why one beat another.
+This module is that layer. It reads `workspace_files` columns only — `grant_id`, `mtime`,
+`content_hash`, `period_year/month`, `removed_at` — and never a byte of text. Same principle as
+`rule_of_two.assess`: *"nothing here inspects a document… it cannot be evaded by an injection that
+reads well."*
+
+## Default-admit — the deliberate inversion of `policy.decide`
+
+`policy.decide` is default-deny because refusing an unlisted effect is safe. Sources are default-
+admit because refusing an unranked source means the product answers nothing. The discipline that
+replaces default-deny here is that **every `REVIEW` and `EXCLUDED` must carry a reason a person can
+read and disagree with.**
+
+Pure: no I/O, no model, no `app.services` import. `tests/test_admission.py` gates it.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from collections.abc import Callable
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from enum import Enum
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+class Standing(str, Enum):
+    ADMITTED = "admitted"
+    REVIEW = "review"
+    EXCLUDED = "excluded"
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class SourceFacts:
+    """Provenance ONLY. Adding a content field here is the bug this module exists to prevent."""
+
+    path: str
+    grant_id: str
+    mtime: float | None
+    tombstoned: bool
+    newer_sibling: str | None
+    kind: str = "unknown"
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class Admission:
+    standing: Standing
+    reason: str
+    rule: str
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class AdmissionRule:
+    name: str
+    standing: Standing
+    reason: str
+    predicate: Callable[[SourceFacts], bool]
+
+
+_STANDING_RANK = {
+    Standing.ADMITTED: 0,
+    Standing.REVIEW: 1,
+    Standing.EXCLUDED: 2,
+}
+
+
+def _pick_strictest(candidates: list[Admission]) -> Admission:
+    return max(candidates, key=lambda item: _STANDING_RANK[item.standing])
+
+
+def admit(facts: SourceFacts, rules: tuple[AdmissionRule, ...]) -> Admission:
+    """Decide whether a source may inform an answer from provenance facts alone."""
+    if facts.tombstoned:
+        return Admission(
+            standing=Standing.EXCLUDED,
+            reason="This source was removed from your workspace.",
+            rule="tombstoned_source",
+        )
+
+    if not (facts.grant_id or "").strip():
+        return Admission(
+            standing=Standing.ADMITTED,
+            reason="no provenance recorded",
+            rule="no_provenance",
+        )
+
+    matched: list[Admission] = []
+    for rule in rules:
+        if rule.predicate(facts):
+            matched.append(
+                Admission(standing=rule.standing, reason=rule.reason, rule=rule.name)
+            )
+
+    if facts.newer_sibling:
+        sibling_name = Path(facts.newer_sibling).name
+        matched.append(
+            Admission(
+                standing=Standing.REVIEW,
+                reason=f"A newer version exists in the same folder ({sibling_name}).",
+                rule="superseded_sibling",
+            )
+        )
+
+    if not matched:
+        return Admission(
+            standing=Standing.ADMITTED,
+            reason="nothing known against it",
+            rule="default_admit",
+        )
+
+    return _pick_strictest(matched)
+
+
+def standing_sort_key(standing: Standing) -> int:
+    """Lower sorts earlier — ADMITTED before REVIEW before EXCLUDED."""
+    return _STANDING_RANK[standing]