# Current Truth

> Readability, ancestry, uncertainty, correction, and ownership of the current account.

Current truth is the present reviewed account, not a claim that uncertainty has
ended.

## Current account

**TM-CUR-001 — One current selection.** Within a declared coherence boundary,
an implementation **MUST** provide one deterministic answer to which accepted
records or values are current.

**TM-CUR-002 — Accepted-only current state.** Proposed, failed, stale,
unreviewed, or merely observed claims **MUST NOT** appear as accepted current
truth.

**TM-CUR-003 — Explicit uncertainty.** Current truth **MUST** represent
material unknowns, conflicts, qualifications, and uncertainty explicitly
rather than laundering them into empty fields or confident prose.

**TM-CUR-004 — Human meaning.** Stored values whose meaning is not self-evident
**MUST** carry or deterministically resolve to the human meaning on which
people are expected to act.

## Ancestry

**TM-CUR-005 — Consequential ancestry.** Every consequential current record or
value **MUST** be traceable to the accepted change that established it and the
evidence supporting that change at the appropriate grain.

**TM-CUR-006 — Supersession without erasure.** Correcting current truth **MUST**
preserve the prior accepted record and the change that superseded it. The
system **MUST NOT** rewrite history to make the new account appear always true.

**TM-CUR-007 — Source versus judgment.** A current value **MUST** remain
distinguishable from a source observation about that value when the distinction
is material.

## Ownership

**TM-CUR-008 — No mirrored authority.** A truth system **MUST NOT** copy
another system's changing current state and represent the copy as independently
authoritative. It may retain exact-revision observations or conclusions whose
scope and staleness are explicit.

**TM-CUR-009 — Explicit handoff.** When authority for a class of current truth
moves to another system, the handoff **MUST** identify the receiving authority,
effective boundary, and durable transition. The predecessor **MUST NOT**
continue evolving a competing current account.

## Projection versus full record

A typed current projection over fuller records is a useful implementation
pattern, not a requirement. When used, the projection, human index, and full
records must not disagree. The reference implementation demonstrates that
pattern under the [Git-native profile](/docs/truth-machine/profiles/git-native/).