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Separates evidence from truth
A source contributes claims only within its declared authority.
Reference architecture
Truth Machine
Turn changing evidence into current truth through exact, reviewed change.
Truth Machine is a reference architecture for systems that must maintain an attributable current account from incomplete, overlapping, or conflicting evidence.
Accepted specification 0.1.0Where it fits
The truth substrate
Teams whose decisions depend on durable shared claims and who need the prior account, proposed change, review, and reason to remain recoverable.
Capabilities
What it makes possible.
Makes change exact
Reconciliation proposes a bounded delta against an identified current state.
Binds review to the proposal
Stale, invalid, or partly applicable work advances nothing.
Publishes for people and peers
HTML, Markdown, manifests, schemas, and context files derive from the same source.
Working sequence
A clear path through the system.
- 01Gather evidence
Retain provenance, authority, uncertainty, and disagreement.
- 02Propose an exact change
Reconcile against an identified state and coherence boundary.
- 03Review and advance
Bind approval to exact bytes, then retain the new account and its reason together.
Boundary
What this page is not claiming.
- Truth Machine is a reference architecture, not a hosted service or universal database.
- An AI peer may do substantial work but gains no authority from fluency.
- The current maturity claim stops at a verified first-party publication; adoption or external conformance is not claimed.
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