The standard

The draft is draft-wright-verdict-record, “Verdict Records: Results on Claims that Cite Receipts as Evidence”. Its own summary:

“This document defines a verdict record: a statement, bound to its issuer, of a result reached on a claim, together with the evidence the result relies on and the rule by which the result can be re-derived. Evidence is cited by digest and can be a receipt or record in any format, such as a SCITT Receipt or an Agent Action Capsule. The document defines how a checker checks a verdict record and what such a check does and does not show. It defines no receipt format and changes none.”

The current revision is -02, posted on 2 November 2026.

Test cases for the draft, with the answers the draft text gives and a reference checker, are public at github.com/diggertydog/verdict-record-test-vectors. Checkers written outside Sencor have run them. To run them yourself, see Try a check.

Comments on the draft are welcome: write to Darren Wright at darren@sencor.ai.