Core meaning
- Capability purpose
- Make profile knowledge explainable, revisable, and time-aware instead of assumed or silently inferred.
- Meaningful outcome
- A current assertion can be interpreted together with its authority, evidence, confidence, validity, and history.
- Boundaries — includes
- proposal/confirmation lineage, statement, class, evidence links, confidence, validity period, revision, dispute, supersession, and deprecation.
- Boundaries — excludes
- owner-authored profile documents, raw observations, pattern detection, dispute resolution itself, and presentation-specific profile screens.
- Terms and concepts
- A profile
assertion is a sourced claim about a subject, not an unqualified fact.
Interaction Contract MLEs
Establish or revise an assertion
- Actor
- The profile subject or a process acting through governed proposal/standing authority.
- Command / intent
- Establish, revise, supersede, or deprecate an evidence-backed profile assertion.
- Current state
- Evidence and any prior assertion/version are available.
- Policies / invariants
- Subject authority is explicit; evidence and provenance remain linked; model-generated claims begin non-authoritative; validity and confidence are not omitted when material; revisions do not erase prior state.
- Transition
- Validate authority and evidence, record the new lifecycle state/version, and retain supersession links.
- Result
- A traceable current or deprecated assertion, or a pending/rejected proposal.
- Events / effects
- Retrieval may use assertions according to status, validity, purpose, and authorization.
- Unknowns
- Exact confidence scales are profile-specific.
Rules and defaults
Rules / invariants
- Import or observation does not directly become confirmed profile knowledge.
- Owner-authored facts and owner review override inferred updates about the owner.
Recommended defaults
- Begin with few assertions rather than populate an authoritative-looking profile from weak evidence.
Unknown / unresolved
- Authority for profiles of people other than the owner requires later relationship/consent work.
Statement provenance
| Statement | Semantic class | Evidence status | Source / note |
|---|
| Profile assertions preserve evidence, confidence, validity, provenance, and lifecycle. | rule/invariant | sourced | K09–K10. |