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Structured judgment events for AI systems.

JEP proposes a compact signed event format for judgment, delegation, termination, and verification across human, software, organizational, and autonomous agent systems.

As AI systems increasingly make, assist, delegate, terminate, verify, or record decisions across system boundaries, a neutral event structure can help later verifiers determine what was asserted, who signed it, what it referenced, and which validation level was reached.

Event Structure
ActorEvent VerbSigned PayloadReferenceValidation Level

What JEP defines

JEP structures judgment-related events so they can be signed, referenced, verified, and replayed across systems.

Execution logs show what happened. JEP helps represent who asserted, delegated, terminated, or verified a judgment-related event, under a declared validation context.

Four event verbs

J — Judgment

Records that an actor made, accepted, produced, approved, selected, rejected, ranked, classified, or committed to a decision-related claim.

D — Delegation

Records that an actor delegated a task, authority, responsibility, capability, or decision context.

T — Termination

Records that a delegation, session, capability, verification context, or chain reliance is ended, revoked, expired, or superseded.

V — Verification

Records that an actor performed validation, audit, review, confirmation, rejection, or verification over an event, chain, digest, credential, policy, evidence, or external object.

Each verb records a protocol event claim. It does not by itself prove external truth, legal validity, or moral responsibility.

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