{
  "anchor_identifier": "ANCH-2026-0001",
  "anchor_version": 1,
  "schema_version": "1.0-draft",
  "validation_stage": "Stage A — Structural / Institutional Validation",
  "validation_rule_set": "VAL-001 through VAL-042",
  "validation_rule_set_version": "1.0-draft",
  "validated_at": "2026-08-29T14:27:00-07:00",
  "schema_conformance": "PASS",
  "rule_results": [
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-001",
      "title": "Anchor Identifier Present",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Anchor Identifier is ANCH-2026-0001."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-002",
      "title": "Anchor Version Valid",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "New Integrity Reference uses Anchor Version 1."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-003",
      "title": "Schema Version Identified",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Schema Version is 1.0-draft."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-004",
      "title": "Source Institution Identified",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Source Institution is Satoshium Certifier."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-005",
      "title": "Source-System Identifier Preserved",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Source-System Identifier is SCRD-SC-CERT-2026-0001 and remains distinct from ANCH-2026-0001."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-006",
      "title": "Source Artifact Type Identified",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Source Artifact type is Satoshium Certified Record (SCRD JSON)."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-007",
      "title": "Source Authority Coherent",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Certifier institution, SCRD identifier/type, and Certifier source location are coherent."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-008",
      "title": "Representation Type Present",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Representation Type is canonical_json."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-009",
      "title": "Representation Boundary Explicit",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Boundary identifies the complete SCRD JSON document and excludes linked/referenced external artifacts."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-010",
      "title": "Canonicalization Method Identified",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Canonicalization is RFC 8785 — JSON Canonicalization Scheme (JCS); version RFC 8785."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-011",
      "title": "Canonical Representation Reconstructable",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Canonical representation is preserved; RFC 8785 + UTF-8 recorded; byte length 4415."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-012",
      "title": "Integrity Subject Coherent",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Source identity, canonical_json representation, and complete-document boundary form one coherent integrity subject."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-013",
      "title": "At Least One Integrity Method Present",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "1 Integrity Method instance present."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-014",
      "title": "Integrity Method Sufficiently Defined",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "digest-1 records method type, SHA-256, digest, parameters, generation time, and Verification Material."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-015",
      "title": "Integrity Value or Proof Material Present",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Digest method contains a 64-character lowercase hexadecimal Integrity Value."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-016",
      "title": "Method / Algorithm Use Permitted",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "cryptographic_digest with SHA-256 matches the initial Suite-wide digest profile."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-017",
      "title": "Source Provenance Present",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Source Provenance identifies authority, SCRD identifier/version/package, source location, and retrieval time."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-018",
      "title": "Representation Provenance Present",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Representation Provenance records canonical_json, complete-document boundary, RFC 8785 JCS, UTF-8, and byte length."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-019",
      "title": "Generation Provenance Present",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Generation Provenance records cryptographic_digest, SHA-256, lowercase hexadecimal encoding, and generation time."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-020",
      "title": "Provenance Supports Reproducibility",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Combined provenance plus preserved canonical bytes is sufficient for Initial Verification."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-021",
      "title": "Required Source Relationship Present",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "references_source points to SCRD-SC-CERT-2026-0001."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-022",
      "title": "Relationship Targets Coherent",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Relationship token, target identifier, target system, and source location are coherent."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-023",
      "title": "No Prohibited Self-Relationship",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "No relationship targets the Integrity Reference itself."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-024",
      "title": "Required Supersession Lineage Present",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "Lifecycle State is draft, not superseded."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-025",
      "title": "Record States Kept Separate",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Integrity=current; Publication=unpublished; Lifecycle=draft."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-026",
      "title": "Lifecycle State Valid",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Lifecycle State draft is valid."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-027",
      "title": "Lifecycle Transition Valid",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "Initial Version 1 draft; no prior lifecycle transition exists."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-028",
      "title": "Anchor Version Continuity Valid",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "Version 1 has no prior Anchor Version."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-029",
      "title": "New Integrity Reference Used for New Subject",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "First Integrity Reference for this SCRD JSON subject uses newly assigned ANCH-2026-0001."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-030",
      "title": "Prior Production Versions Preserved",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "Version 1 has no prior production Versions."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-031",
      "title": "Correction Lineage Complete",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "No Anchor Correction exists in this Version 1 candidate."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-032",
      "title": "Source Change Not Misclassified as Anchor Correction",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "No Source change is represented as an Anchor Correction."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-033",
      "title": "Subject-Invalidating Error Uses New Identity",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "No Correction or subject-invalidating defect is under review."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-034",
      "title": "Verification Inputs Available",
      "result": "PASS",
      "note": "Canonical bytes, canonicalization, SHA-256, expected digest, byte length, provenance, and comparison rule are available."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-035",
      "title": "Initial Verification Completed",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "Stage A occurs before Initial Verification."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-036",
      "title": "Blocking Verification Issue Absent",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "Stage B/publication-readiness rule; Initial Verification has not yet occurred."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-037",
      "title": "Canonical HTML Candidate Present",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "Stage B rule; canonical publication HTML is prepared after Initial Verification."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-038",
      "title": "Canonical JSON Candidate Present",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "Stage B rule; canonical publication JSON is prepared after Initial Verification."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-039",
      "title": "Human / Machine Consistency",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "Stage B rule; paired canonical publication representations do not yet exist."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-040",
      "title": "Publication Timestamp Not Premature",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "Stage B rule; candidate contains no published_at timestamp."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-041",
      "title": "No Blocking Correction",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "Stage B publication-readiness confirmation; no blocking Correction is currently present."
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "VAL-042",
      "title": "Publication Gate Inputs Complete",
      "result": "NOT APPLICABLE",
      "note": "Stage B/Gate rule; Stage A intentionally precedes completion of Gate inputs."
    }
  ],
  "stage_a_outcome": "PASS",
  "summary": {
    "pass": 28,
    "fail": 0,
    "not_applicable": 14
  },
  "next_step": "Initial Verification"
}