Certification

VDS Certified — audited, version-scoped, revocable.

The standard is open. Certification is the audited product: a signed conformance report, a public registry entry, and a mark that carries its own scope — so anyone can check it rather than trust it.

The audit, in five steps

1 · Apply

Send the model

A candidate manifest, the evidence bundle, and read access to the model + data.

2 · Run

Six checks

The conformance suite recomputes the deficit, gates, mutations, reviewer independence and evidence.

3 · Review

Independent check

A sample of gates and mutation tests is re-run; the evidence bundle is confirmed.

4 · Decide

Pass or gaps

Pass → certificate. Fail → a written list of the gaps.

5 · Publish

The registry

Version, level, deficit, guards proven and the report hash, in public.

Mark

Carries its scope

product v{version} · audited {date} · L3 · m={m} · report hash — no evergreen badge.

The public registry

Every certified version is listed with its scope. The first entry is a self-certified reference — we ran our own suite — and is labelled as such; the first independent certification is a design-partner run.

ProductVersionLevelDeficitGatesAuditorStatus
pacland0.9L3m = 4 of 125/5 structuralVVS (self)self-certified reference

The machine-readable registry is in the standard repo. The first independent entry appears after a design-partner run.

What the mark means

  • It is version-scoped and time-scoped.
  • It certifies the verification discipline — never the model's truth.
  • It is awarded at L3 only: L2 proven guards + a computed deficit + a certificate + the evidence bundle.
  • It is a licence, not a purchase — it lapses when the version changes.

Revocation (no grace period)

  • A green-when-nothing-ran regression.
  • A claimed guard that does not go red on its seeded fault.
  • The reviewer running on the same model as the coder.
  • An unproven guard added silently.

Revocations are public in the same registry, with the reason and the date.

Get certified.

Bring the model you're not sure about. We return the signed conformance report — and, if it holds, the mark.