ARCHIVE - RESEARCH PROTOTYPE ONLY - NOT THE CURRENT DECENCYMETER DEMO

This interface does not include the current DecencyMeter advisory-boundary system. It is not DBaD validation, not proof of ethical behavior, and not certification that a decision is true, safe, good, or correct.

Use this route only as historical research context. Do not cite screenshots or scores from this page as current DecencyMeter output.

Last updated: 2026-05-30 UTC

Legacy research prototype

DBaD Explained White paper v3 Known limits Recent traces Methodology Papers

Legacy Scenario Evaluator (Research Prototype)

This page is a public research demonstration of one visible slice of DBaD. It shows how a proposed action can be evaluated through guardrails, weighted dimensions, and prototype state outputs, but it does not represent the full DBaD governance protocol.

DBaD’s broader public baseline now emphasizes structured decision traces, trust over time, continuity, verification, trajectory, and known boundary conditions. This demo remains useful as a partial prototype, not a complete runtime-enforcement surface.

This demo shows how DBaD surfaces these failures in a structured trace rather than leaving them implicit.

Archive boundary: prototype logic shown here is guardrails first, weighted scoring second, contextual doctrines where needed, then a prototype recommendation and state framing. It is not the current DecencyMeter score-card presentation and does not carry current v0.3.1 advisory boundaries.

Read this page as an interactive trace preview: a structured reasoning output for one reviewed action, not a complete account of downstream trust inheritance. Most state, constraint, and explanation fields below are now backend-produced. The sample walkthrough and a small amount of note formatting remain demo-only.

DBaD trace preview

Developer reference: POST /api/v1/dbad/evaluate · stored trace retrieval: GET /api/v1/dbad/traces/<trace_id> · public overview: API docs

Interpret this output as a research-facing governance result. It previews state, obligations, verification posture, and structured reasoning for one action. It does not by itself model full cross-step trust inheritance, actor continuity checks, verifier independence, or known boundary conditions.

ARCHIVE SCORE OBJECT - SIGNAL ONLY

This score object is from an older research prototype. It is not DBaD validation, not proof of ethical behavior, and not a current DecencyMeter advisory score.

Current review should use the DecencyMeter demo, where score cards carry current advisory warnings and profile-range context.

Governance result
Pending--

Recommendation: --

Decision band: --

State family: Pending

Operational mode: No probationary state reported.

Archive prototype score: --

Trace status: research preview only; not current DBaD validation.

Stored trace: not created yet. Browse recent traces.

Why this result was reached

Run an evaluation to see the prototype recommendation.

Run an evaluation to see the next required step.

No audit posture reported yet.

Trust inheritance preview

Inherited trust: Not evaluated yet.

Verification required: Not evaluated yet.

  • No triggered concerns reported yet.
Constraint flags
  • Constraint flags will appear after evaluation.
Deadlines and failure

Deadline: No active deadline.

If missed: No failure consequence reported yet.

State model preview

DBaD is not just a single state result. This panel separates the immediate action evaluation from broader governing constraints and the final effective state used for output.

Local state
Pending --

Immediate action evaluation before broader constraints are applied.

Systemic state
Pending --

Simplified chain, dependency, and verification context derived from currently live fields.

Systemic health depends on patterns such as repeated unresolved obligations or recurring contamination, not one isolated local failure.

Effective state
Pending --

The governing state actually used for this prototype output.

State layers below are backend-produced. The sample walkthrough and some note formatting remain demo-only.

State precedence note

Why this state governs: Run an evaluation to see whether the effective state is driven mainly by immediate action review or by broader governing constraints.

Backend-produced explanation for the current evaluator slice.

Scenario framing

Preset: Custom / manual input

Tension: Not specified yet.

Conditional state: Not specified yet.

Preset notes and gray-zone context will appear here when available.

Governance profile and scope

Domain context: Not specified yet.

Profile: Not specified yet.

Debt weighting: Not specified yet.

Scope: -- --

Isolation and contamination details will appear here after evaluation.

Verification and clearance

Clearance mode: --

Evidence type: --

Tier 1 evidence proves facts or events. Tier 2 evidence reviews quality, meaning, legitimacy, transparency, intent, fairness, or proportionality.

High-risk remediation may require technical evidence, policy review, and formal approval from recorded clearance authority.

  • No clearance rules reported yet.
  • No evidence tiers reported yet.

Calibration and revision

Divergence: Not reported yet.

Survey disagreement: Not reported yet.

Scenario family: --

Revision signal: --

Divergence levels are caution signals: low for monitoring, moderate for operational caution, high for possible calibration review.

Revision signals flag review pressure only. DBaD rule changes require quorum threshold, review window, named authority, active draft, evidence, approval, documentation, and versioning.

Calibration review guidance will appear here when available.

Contextual doctrines

  • No doctrine notes reported yet.

Obligations and deadlines

  • No follow-up obligations reported yet.

State distinctions

  • Clean stable compliant state
  • Probationary temporary constrained operation with profile-defined TTL and auto-escalation
  • Remediated violation history preserved, current state improved
  • Violation active failure or blocked state
  • Contaminated downstream state inherited from upstream failure

Lifecycle note

This demo exposes part of the DBaD lifecycle model, including conditional states, probationary constraints, restoration requirements, and audit-facing reclassification. Probation is temporary controlled operation, not ordinary clearance. The broader public model extends further into trust inheritance and runtime enforcement than this page alone can show.

State re-entry is explicit in the canonical model: clearing an override should preserve, pause, re-evaluate, or expire the lower-state TTL rather than silently issuing a fresh window.

Recursive invalidation is bounded in the canonical model: deep dependency graphs need batch IDs, recheck depth, checkpoints, and explicit finality states rather than unbounded cascades.

  • No restoration requirement is attached to this run yet.

How to read this page

  • This demo: weighted dimensions, guardrails, doctrines, and a trace-style preview for a single reviewed action.
  • DBaD Explained: the short public overview of DBaD as a governance protocol for trust over time.
  • White paper v3: the current tested public draft baseline, including structured traces, runtime enforcement, and confirmed limits.
  • Known boundary conditions: the current limits where DBaD moves from enforcement into observation and research.

How to read this trace

DBaD does not judge a scenario with just one score.

This trace preview shows how the system separates the immediate action being evaluated, the broader governing context around it, and the final effective state that controls the result.

  • Action: what is being evaluated.
  • Dimension support: the five supporting ethical dimensions.
  • State layers: how local, systemic, and effective state can differ.
  • Trust and verification: whether prior trust can carry forward and whether additional review is required.
  • Constraint flags: which governance concerns were triggered.
  • Reasoning notes: why the current result governs.

This is a public research demonstration. Most fields below are backend-produced. The sample walkthrough and some note formatting remain demo-only.

Sample trace walkthrough

Teaching example only. This is a sample DBaD trace walkthrough, not a production trace.

  • Scenario summary: a follow-up action appears to continue a valid chain, but control has shifted through an undeclared actor handoff.
  • Effective state: escalate
  • Trust inheritance posture: blocked until continuity is re-established.
  • Verification posture: additional review and explicit transition evidence required.
  • Triggered concerns: continuity concern triggered; downstream trust cannot be treated as ordinary continuation.
  • Why this result governs: the immediate action may be ethically live on its own, but the broader governing context is unstable because actor continuity is no longer clear.
Trace object preview expand

This is a public-facing trace summary assembled from backend-produced evaluator fields. The sample walkthrough and some note formatting remain demo-only.

Action

Scenario: No scenario summary yet.

Preset: Custom / manual input

Dimension support

  • No supporting values reported yet.

State layers

  • No state layers reported yet.

Trust and verification

  • No trust or verification posture reported yet.

Clearance authority remains reviewable after approval; later integrity revocation can require prior-clearance recheck without erasing the ledger event.

Verifier conflicts keep clearance constrained; a signer or reviewer should not clear debt when it appears inside the action, evidence, or prior-clearance scope.

Undeclared actor handoffs block ordinary continuation until the handoff, delegation, or fork is recorded.

Trajectory concerns block ordinary continuation when the current step materially escalates, stagnates, or destabilizes the lineage path.

Break-glass planning is high-friction and logged as a critical deviation; it is not a general guardrail bypass.

Constraint flags

  • No active flags reported yet.

Reasoning notes

  • No reasoning notes reported yet.

Structured reasoning output

  • Guardrails, weighted scoring, and doctrine review will appear after evaluation.
Dimension Archive prototype score Weighted contribution
Harm----
Consent----
Intent----
Proportionality----
Transparency----

Archive scoring boundary: the five dimensions remain part of the research history, but scores from this page should not be treated as current DecencyMeter output or DBaD governance approval.

  • No guardrail issues reported yet.