Validate

Validate

Freshly judge one finished candidate against its original acceptance, return PASS, FAIL, or NOT_PROVEN with criterion-level evidence, and stop. Neighbours: advice or a second look is Review; whether a stated claim holds is Reality Check. This file carries every rule the judgment needs. Linked files, including RPI boundaries and mechanics, add depth only: if one cannot be read, judge from this file and say which was unavailable.

Rules that decide the verdict

• The author cannot issue a binding PASS, and advisory findings cannot stand in for this judgment. An author's summary, confidence or assurance is a claim to check, not evidence; explanation alone is not proof.
• Each criterion needs its own evidence on the exact candidate. A criterion nobody demonstrated goes in not_checked and never counts toward PASS.
• A changed test, tolerance, golden, suppression or acceptance text must still satisfy the original intent. Green obtained by weakening the oracle is FAIL for the criterion it was meant to prove, and that green is not evidence.
• Read receipts; do not re-run checks the author ran on this exact subject or that CI will run. Re-execute only a risk-critical claim that has no receipt.
• A necessary finding never becomes an optional caveat or non-goal.

Decide in this order:

1. The subject changed during judgment, changed-path coverage is incomplete, or author and validator identity or freshness is missing, colliding or unattested: NOT_PROVEN.
2. A criterion is proven failed, or a change is proven out of scope: FAIL, even when other criteria are unverified.
3. Any in-scope criterion lacks evidence: NOT_PROVEN.
4. Every criterion is verified with evidence, checked scope is nonempty and not_checked is empty: PASS.

Establish intent first

An explicit request for Validate, an acceptance verdict or independent proof that original acceptance is met selects this skill, even when phrased as