Within Attestor, a trust signal is a descriptive concept for information or an indicator that may be relevant to the evaluation of an Attestation or the support of a Trust Statement.
“Trust signal” is retained only as historical and descriptive language for trust-relevant evaluation context. It is not a canonical Attestor object, controlled record type, Evaluation Outcome, score, or final conclusion.
The existence, attribution, status, scope, or relationship of an Attestation may provide information relevant to an Attestor evaluation. The Attestation remains the governed assertion; the signal is only the trust-relevant meaning considered in context.
Evaluation ContextEvidence may contribute trust-relevant information through its provenance, relevance, authority, consistency, limitations, or relationship to an assertion. The evidence itself remains distinct from any interpretation derived from it.
Evaluation ContextCertification, validation, review, registration, integrity, history, discovery, or other governed outcomes may be relevant to Attestor evaluation when properly referenced. Their original institutional meaning and authority must remain intact.
Authority-BoundedHistorical events, repeated conditions, relationships, changes, and other preserved context may affect how an assertion is evaluated when those facts are supported by eligible evidence or authoritative records.
Evaluation ContextAttribution, transparent correction, supersession, withdrawal, responsibility, and reviewable provenance may be relevant to an Attestor evaluation without automatically establishing a favorable or unfavorable conclusion.
Evaluation ContextTrust-relevant information may support, limit, conflict with, or leave uncertainty around an assertion. Attestor should preserve ambiguity where the governed inputs do not justify a stronger conclusion.
Established RequirementBeacon and Attestor use information for different institutional purposes. Beacon produces Discovery Signals and Discovery Metadata so authoritative information can be discovered and navigated. Attestor evaluates trust-relevant inputs in support of Trust Statements.
The earlier Attestor model described trust signals as positive, negative, neutral, mixed, or uncertain. Those directional labels are not part of the adopted Attestor architecture. Attestor does not establish a generic scoring, reputation, weighting, or directional signal model.
Trust-relevant indicators may contribute to an Attestor evaluation only through governed evidence, authoritative references, provenance, scope, status, and applicable Attestor rules. They do not independently produce a Trust Statement.
The first controlled production operation confirmed that a separate Trust Signal object layer is unnecessary. The governed process moved directly from eligible inputs through the canonical Attestation and Rule-Constrained Evaluation to the canonical Trust Statement.
The production operation referenced BEAC-2026-0001 while preserving Beacon's authority over its Discovery Signal / Discovery Metadata. The Beacon object was not converted into an Attestor Trust Signal, and Attestor did not acquire Beacon's source authority.
The Trust Signal question is closed for the operational Attestor architecture. Trust Signal remains legacy / descriptive terminology only. Production confirmed that Attestor requires no parallel Trust Signal object layer.
Historical Trust Signal schemas and templates may be preserved for provenance and architectural history, but they are legacy/non-operational artifacts and must not be interpreted as current production contracts.