Context
Evidence-heavy interfaces become misleading when every polished card looks equally current and authoritative. AlexOS keeps chronology visible while separating current authority from useful history, preserved failure, and open claims.
VIS-STATE-01PUBLIC READING KEY / AUTHORITY-SENSITIVEField guide
Reading Evidence State
Six plain-language states help a visitor distinguish an idea, an operative record, inherited history, a replaced decision, an unsuccessful result, and a claim the evidence still cannot support.
Governing rule
A record’s presence proves that it exists. Its state determines what, if anything, it may currently support.
Current state
This public reading key translates six recurring evidence states without exposing internal schemas. The labels clarify interpretation; they do not independently verify the underlying record.
Current evidence
What the record supports.
- States
- 6
- Current authority
- 1 state
- History retained
- Yes
- Failure retained
- Yes
- Automatic promotion
- Never
- Proposed identifies an idea awaiting decision
- Current identifies the operative record within its jurisdiction
- Historical preserves relevant evidence without present authority
- Superseded identifies a record replaced by a named successor
- Failed preserves an unsuccessful or invalid result
- Unproved marks a claim the available evidence cannot yet support
Public evidence files
Inspect the record.
Public-safe derivatives only. Source availability does not broaden the claim stated on this page.
Public vocabulary lineageSource-to-derivative review remains in preparationWithheld
Internal object and state modelProtected institutional mechanics are outside this public reading keyWithheld
Claim boundary
What remains unearned.
- A label is not independent verification
- Current does not mean universally true
- Historical does not mean irrelevant
- Superseded does not erase the prior record
- Unproved is not the same as false
Next evidence
Apply the vocabulary consistently across public AlexOS pages and test whether first-time visitors can identify which claims are current, historical, failed, or still open.