The scope of Attestor defines the institutional responsibility, authority boundaries, and limitations within which Attestations are evaluated and Trust Statements are produced.
Attestor may reference governed information across the Satoshium Suite, but it does not absorb the canonical responsibilities of the institutions that produce or preserve those inputs.
Attestor's scope includes governed Attestations, evaluation of eligible evidence and authoritative references, preservation of provenance and scope, production of Trust Statements, and governed correction or lifecycle treatment of Attestor-owned objects.
Attestor must preserve the boundary within which an Attestation applies. The subject, assertion, conditions, relevant time or context, and other applicable limitations should remain distinguishable wherever required by the governing model.
Attestor evaluates only the question supported by its eligible inputs and applicable rules. An evaluation should not silently expand beyond the evidence, provenance, authority, status, or conditions available to support it.
A Trust Statement is a bounded Attestor conclusion. Its scope and limitations must remain visible so that a conclusion about one subject, condition, period, or purpose is not interpreted as a universal judgment.
Attestor may reference a Certifier Certification Package as an authoritative input. Certifier retains authority over the certification and its canonical package. Attestor does not certify or recertify the subject.
Attestor may reference a Satoshium Registry record. Registry retains authority over the registered record, its identifier, status, and lifecycle. Attestor does not register or redefine the record.
Attestor may reference a Chronicle Entry as historical or provenance-bearing context. Chronicle retains authority over the preserved event record. Attestor does not rewrite Chronicle history.
Attestor may reference an Anchor Integrity Reference when integrity context is relevant. Anchor retains authority over that integrity reference. Attestor does not establish Anchor's integrity determination.
Attestor may reference Beacon Discovery Signals or Discovery Metadata when discovery context is relevant. Beacon retains authority over those discovery objects. Attestor does not create or redefine Beacon signals.
Attestor may reference authoritative Atlas intelligence when relevant to an evaluation. Atlas retains authority over its intelligence and structural record. Attestor does not become the originating intelligence authority.
Attestor may participate in workflows defined or orchestrated through Navigator. Navigator retains responsibility for workflow definition and orchestration; Attestor retains responsibility for its own governed evaluation and Trust Statement.
Attestor may accept eligible external or otherwise governed sources when they satisfy applicable Eligibility, Authority, Provenance, scope, status, limitation, Validation, and reference-profile requirements. The first production operation exercised Suite-source inputs rather than an external-source path. Eligibility does not transfer source authority to Attestor.
Attestor does not determine universal truth, issue another institution's canonical objects, alter authoritative source records, create a generic reputation system, produce an automatic trust score, or replace independent human or institutional judgment beyond the meaning of its own governed Trust Statement.
The first controlled production operation exercised Assertion Scope, Evaluation Scope, and Trust Statement Scope as distinct but connected boundaries.
The resulting Trust Statement did not establish the substantive truth of the underlying Atlas jurisdiction intelligence, independently recertify the Certifier decision, extend Anchor integrity beyond its defined SCRD representation, establish unchanged state beyond the evidence reviewed, or make a generalized determination of trustworthiness.
Attestor's institutional scope is established and production-proven. The first operation demonstrated bounded assertion, evaluation, and conclusion scope while preserving the canonical authority of every referenced Suite institution.
Attestor operates as a distinct Satoshium Suite institution with a bounded canonical responsibility:
Atlas → Authoritative Intelligence
Navigator → Workflow Definition / Orchestration
Certifier → Certification Package
Registry → Satoshium Registry Record
Chronicle → Chronicle Entry
Anchor → Integrity Reference
Beacon → Discovery Signal / Discovery Metadata
Attestor → Trust Statement