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Library correctness, documentation and honest verification, from the 2026-10-08 recon of Axiology.jl.

  • Undefined scores no longer leak Inf/NaN. Profit() defaults to target = 0.0, so value_score(Profit(), …) returned Inf and fed it silently into weighted_score / dominated / pareto_frontier. Zero targets on Profit and Efficiency (:computation_time, :kaldor_hicks) now throw ArgumentError. A zero Fairness threshold now demands exact parity instead of producing 0/0 = NaN.
  • value_score(::Fairness) accepts :protected_attributes, as satisfy and maximize already did and as its own error message claimed.
  • Every export is documented (27 had no docstring). The docstrings were ported from the never-included fairness_nodocs.jl and reconciled with the live TPR/FPR logic. verify_value is described as an attestation check rather than a prover, and maximize as an evaluator rather than an optimiser. The module docstring example is corrected: its @assert failed (disparity 0.15 > 0.05).
  • Dead code removed: src/fairness.jl.backup, src/fairness_minimal.jl, src/fairness_nodocs.jl (none was ever included; the repo's own Dustfile asked for their removal), plus the root scratch file test_load.jl.
  • Owner-library opportunities, implemented natively with no new dependency:
    • verify_receipt strictly checks an ECHIDNA echidna.prove.result/1 receipt (echidna prove --output json), and verify_value delegates to it when handed one. This follows ECHIDNA's docs/PROVE-RESULT-CONTRACT.adoc and epistemic-types' factive/non-factive split: the receipt is transported evidence about a goal file, and goal = makes the binding to the value explicit.
    • safety_verdict returns :entailed / :refuted / :unresolved, using the ResidualEvidenceTypes.jl vocabulary, so missing safety evidence is no longer indistinguishable from "safe". satisfy(::Safety) is unchanged and now documents its absent-means-safe default; changing that default is left as an owner decision.
    • The weighted_score docstring states that the scalarisation is lossy (no section; echo-types no-section-of-collapsing-map) and lets one value compensate for another. A test exhibits two distinct profiles with the same score that the Pareto comparison still separates.
  • Project.toml: drops the unused LinearAlgebra dependency; [compat] is now julia = "1.10" (the lowest version CI tests) and Statistics = "1"; version 0.1.1.

Type of change

  • 🐛 Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue). The one behaviour change: value_score on a zero-target Profit/Efficiency now throws instead of returning Inf/NaN.
  • ✨ New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality): verify_receipt, safety_verdict, PROVE_RESULT_SCHEMA.
  • 💥 Breaking change: none. All 206 pre-existing tests pass unchanged except one, which now captures a log line instead of printing it.
  • 🕳️ Soundness fix: not applicable (no checker or proof is involved).
  • 📖 Documentation
  • 🧹 Refactor / tech debt (dead-file removal)
  • ⚡ Performance: not applicable.
  • 🔧 Build / CI / tooling: not applicable in this PR (see the CI/build PR).

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Head SHA: b7190c8. This PR adds or changes no action pins, lockfiles or digests. Manifest.toml stays gitignored.

How has this been verified?

  • julia --project=. -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate(); Pkg.test()' on Julia 1.10.10 and 1.12.6: Axiology.jl | 206 206 and Hardening | 43 43, "tests passed", exit 0 on both.
  • Test.detect_ambiguities(Axiology) → 0; Test.detect_unbound_args(Axiology) → 0.
  • The docstring-coverage test reads Base.Docs.meta, because hasdoc only exists from 1.11. A positive control asserts that it does detect a missing binding.
  • examples/basic_usage.jl runs to "All examples completed successfully!".
  • The cited upstream names were grepped on each repo's origin/main: no-section-of-collapsing-map (echo-types), ENTAILED/REFUTED/UNRESOLVED (ResidualEvidenceTypes.jl), FactiveModality (epistemic-types), and the receipt fields (echidna docs/PROVE-RESULT-CONTRACT.adoc). The receipt tests use the contract's own example object.

Checklist

  • My commits are signed (git commit -S): both show G, SSH signature.
  • I ran the project's own checks/tests locally and they pass (see above).
  • New files carry the correct SPDX-License-Identifier: test/hardening.jl is MPL-2.0. No existing file was relicensed.
  • Docs are updated, and no public claim now overstates what the code does. The docstrings were corrected; README.adoc is rewritten in the separate docs PR.
  • I have not introduced a soundness hole. verify_receipt rejects malformed receipts rather than reading them as failures, rejects receipts with unaccepted axioms, and ignores unknown fields as the schema requires.

Notes for reviewers

  • The .a2ml files still mention the removed dead files (hypatia.a2ml, Dustfile.a2ml, STATE.a2ml). They were left alone because A2ML is frozen pending the deed migration.
  • Considered but not done here: the SMTLib.jl extension (a real solver-backed verify_value), Causals.jl path-based fairness, and an Axiom.jl model adapter. Each would add an unregistered or heavy dependency, and they belong in a later weakdep extension.

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- value_score: a zero target on Profit / Efficiency(:computation_time,
  :kaldor_hicks) now throws ArgumentError instead of returning Inf/NaN.
  Profit() defaults to target = 0.0, so the default value silently fed Inf
  into weighted_score, dominated and pareto_frontier.
- value_score(::Fairness): a zero threshold demands exact parity (1.0 or
  0.0) instead of 0/0 = NaN; :protected_attributes is accepted when
  :protected is absent, as satisfy and maximize already did.
- Docstrings for all 27 previously undocumented exports, ported from the
  dead fairness_nodocs.jl where they existed and reconciled with the live
  TPR/FPR logic. verify_value is described as what it is: an attestation
  check, not a prover. maximize is described as evaluating, not searching.
- Module docstring example corrected: as written its @Assert failed
  (disparity 0.15 > 0.05).
- Remove src/fairness.jl.backup, src/fairness_minimal.jl,
  src/fairness_nodocs.jl (never included; the repo's own Dustfile asked
  for their removal) and the root scratch file test_load.jl.
- Drop the unused LinearAlgebra dependency; compat julia = "1.10" (the
  lowest version CI tests) and Statistics = "1"; version 0.1.1.
- Tests: new test/hardening.jl (zero targets, zero threshold, the
  :protected_attributes alias, docstring coverage with a positive
  control, the module example). The Safety attestation test no longer
  prints "Formally verified" into CI output; it captures the log line.

Verified: Pkg.test() passes on Julia 1.10.10 and 1.12.6
(206 + 15 tests); examples/basic_usage.jl runs; no method ambiguities.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…-score note

- verify_receipt(value, receipt; goal, allow_axioms): strict check of a
  parsed echidna.prove.result/1 object (`echidna prove --output json`).
  Malformed receipts throw; true only for status "verified", a named
  prover, no unaccepted trust.axioms (sorry/Admitted/postulate...) and,
  when given, a matching goal. String- or Symbol-keyed parses both work;
  no JSON or ECHIDNA dependency is added. verify_value delegates to it
  when handed a receipt. Follows echidna docs/PROVE-RESULT-CONTRACT.adoc
  and the factive/non-factive split of hyperpolymath/epistemic-types.
- safety_verdict(::Safety, state) -> :entailed / :refuted / :unresolved,
  so absent safety evidence is no longer indistinguishable from "safe".
  Vocabulary from hyperpolymath/ResidualEvidenceTypes.jl (no dependency).
  satisfy(::Safety) is unchanged and documents its absent-means-safe
  default.
- weighted_score docstring: the scalarisation is lossy (no section; see
  no-section-of-collapsing-map in hyperpolymath/echo-types) and lets one
  value compensate for another; a test exhibits two distinct profiles
  with the same score that pareto comparison still separates.

Verified: Pkg.test() passes on Julia 1.10.10 and 1.12.6 (206 + 43);
no method ambiguities or unbound type parameters.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • New Features

    • Added verification for proof receipts, including schema, prover, goal and allowed-axiom checks.
    • Added safety verdicts that distinguish entailed, refuted and unresolved results.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Fairness scoring now handles zero thresholds and accepts either supported protected-attribute key.
    • Profit and normalised Efficiency scores now report an error when their target is zero.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded guidance and examples for fairness metrics, scoring, welfare and safety checks, and Pareto comparisons.

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The package adds receipt verification and safety verdict APIs, changes score handling for zero thresholds and targets, and expands documentation and tests. Package metadata and module examples also change.

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Axiology scoring and verification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Score handling and comparison
src/optimization.jl, test/hardening.jl
value_score handles zero fairness thresholds and rejects zero targets for specified scores. Tests cover these cases, protected-attribute input, weighted scores and Pareto comparisons.
Receipt verification and safety verdicts
src/welfare.jl, src/Axiology.jl, test/hardening.jl, test/runtests.jl
Schema-bearing proofs route to verify_receipt, which validates receipt fields and verification conditions. safety_verdict reports :refuted, :entailed or :unresolved. Tests cover both APIs and related logging.
API documentation, examples and metadata
Project.toml, src/Axiology.jl, src/fairness.jl, src/fairness.jl.backup, src/fairness_minimal.jl, src/fairness_nodocs.jl, src/types.jl, test/hardening.jl, test_load.jl
Documentation and the module example are revised or added. Duplicate fairness source files and a diagnostic script are removed. Package version and compatibility bounds change.

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Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant verify_value
  participant verify_receipt
  participant ReceiptDict
  verify_value->>verify_receipt: Route schema-bearing proof
  verify_receipt->>ReceiptDict: Read receipt fields
  ReceiptDict-->>verify_receipt: Return field values
  verify_receipt-->>verify_value: Return verification result
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The new receipt check can be skipped when a proof contains a null schema, so an unvalidated attestation can still verify as true. Safety verdicts also treat an explicitly null flag as missing evidence instead of raising the documented error. Fix the schema routing before merging.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in Project.toml: Project.toml updates the version to 0.1.1, removes LinearAlgebra from [deps], adds a Statistics compatibility bound of "1", and changes the Julia compatibility bound from "1.9" to "1.10".
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/Axiology.jl: The module documentation replaces broad claims about value-driven AI and conceptual verification with descriptions of value types, satisfaction checks, named fairness and welfare measures, comparison functions, and the limits and outcomes of verification helpers.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/Axiology.jl: The example now checks demographic parity using binary predictions and protected groups, then compares two candidate states across welfare and fairness values with pareto_frontier; it replaces the previous illustrative state and conceptual optimization example.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/Axiology.jl: The LinearAlgebra import was removed; Statistics remains imported.
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flags = (get(state, :is_safe, nothing), get(state, :invariant_holds, nothing))
for f in flags
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throw(ArgumentError("Safety evidence (:is_safe, :invariant_holds) must be Bool, got $(repr(f))"))

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Reject a present null safety flag.

If state contains :is_safe => nothing, the current guard accepts it as unresolved. This violates the documented ArgumentError for supplied non-Bool values. Check key presence separately from value validity.

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