{
  "$schema": "https://fp1.ai/data/schema/pipeline.json",
  "name": "FP1 evidence-to-decision pipeline",
  "method_of_record": "https://fp1.ai/ncb-004.html",
  "version": "0.3",
  "updated": "2026-09-04",
  "running_state": "Current published material is produced through all eight stages by people working under declared rules, with software supporting retrieval and formatting. A computational engine intended to occupy stages 1-4 is in development and does not produce current published material.",
  "accountability_labels": {
    "software_assisted": "Software supports retrieval, extraction, or formatting; acceptance remains attributable.",
    "rule_guided": "Published rules govern the step; a reviewer applies them in the current published workflow.",
    "accountable_judgment": "A named reviewer owns the consequential judgment."
  },
  "stages": [
    {"n": 1, "name": "Domain evidence", "produces": "Raw items from a monitored beat, timestamped", "how": "software_assisted", "human_accountable_for": "Choosing the beat and accepting the source set"},
    {"n": 2, "name": "Claims and observations", "produces": "Discrete claims separated from commentary", "how": "software_assisted", "human_accountable_for": "Checking extraction against the source"},
    {"n": 3, "name": "Source and independence grading", "produces": "Quality grade, and whether a claim rests on one source", "how": "rule_guided", "human_accountable_for": "Setting the rules; any override, on the record"},
    {"n": 4, "name": "Relationship mapping", "produces": "How each claim bears on the others", "how": "rule_guided", "human_accountable_for": "Every relationship asserted, and its confidence grade"},
    {"n": 5, "name": "Pivotal uncertainty", "produces": "The question the reading turns on", "how": "accountable_judgment", "human_accountable_for": "Naming it, and defending it against alternatives"},
    {"n": 6, "name": "Options opened or closed", "produces": "Effect on the decision holder's option set", "how": "accountable_judgment", "human_accountable_for": "The reasoning chain from evidence to option, in writing"},
    {"n": 7, "name": "Decision brief", "produces": "The seven-part briefing, same order every time", "how": "rule_guided", "human_accountable_for": "Sign-off before publication"},
    {"n": 8, "name": "Review, correction, and regrading", "produces": "Corrections that re-grade earlier ledger entries", "how": "accountable_judgment", "human_accountable_for": "Recording what was wrong and what changed"}
  ]
}