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<h1>Plumbline</h1>
<p class="lede">A fail-closed evaluation harness for government-facing chat
systems. This page is not a description of it: every exit code and transcript
below was produced by running it, and the page cannot be built if any of them
comes back different.</p>

<h2>It refuses</h2>

<p>The most useful thing an audit harness can do is decline to produce a
verdict. Three refusals, run against this repository's own committed
evidence when this page was built.</p>

<h3>1. A report edited after it was written</h3>

<p>One score improved by hand — <code>accuracy</code>
0.8638 → 0.9638 — and nothing else touched:</p>

<pre><code>$ plumbline verify audits/4d2441ce9adb4200/report.json
INTEGRITY REFUSAL: audits/4d2441ce9adb4200/report.json does not match its own seal: it records 5b308064bf90 but its contents hash to d63da1af5276. The report was edited after it was written. Re-run the audit; a verdict is a record, not a draft.</code></pre>

<p>Exit <span class="exit">3</span>: integrity refusal.</p>

<h3>2. The same edit, re-sealed</h3>

<p>The seal is a plain SHA-256 with no secret in it, so an editor can
recompute it. Here the target name is changed and the seal is recomputed over
the change — the seal now matches the contents perfectly:</p>

<pre><code>$ plumbline verify audits/4d2441ce9adb4200/report.json
INTEGRITY REFUSAL: audits/4d2441ce9adb4200/report.json records run id &#x27;4d2441ce9adb4200&#x27;, but its own contents generate &#x27;d1afa4cb62b78118&#x27;. The run id is a hash of the target, the harness version, the seed, the dataset hash, the judge configuration hash, the enabled floors and the baseline — so one of those was edited after the run, or this provenance block came from a different run. Re-run the audit.</code></pre>

<p>Exit <span class="exit">3</span>. The run id is a hash of the
run's inputs, and every one of them is written in the report, so the report
must generate the identity it claims. This is <strong>tamper evidence, not
authentication</strong>: it establishes that the copy in front of you is the
copy that was written. Vouching for <em>who</em> produced a report needs a
signature over these bytes, and Plumbline does not issue one.</p>

<h3>3. Evidence edited underneath the harness</h3>

<p>A number the sources do not support, planted in the recorded responses:</p>

<pre><code>$ plumbline gate --config examples/riverbend.toml --out tamper
INTEGRITY REFUSAL: evidence bundle failed integrity verification: content mismatch: responses.jsonl</code></pre>

<p>Exit <span class="exit">3</span>, and no report was written. Re-sealing the bundle
makes it runnable again and changes the dataset hash
(<code>949197da4dd6</code> → <code>5cb4d40c3049</code>) — that trace is the
point. The second run scores the fabrication instead of refusing it, exit
<span class="exit">1</span>, with these suites failing:</p>

<ul>
<li><code>accuracy</code>: load-bearing item(s) rent-cap-en-formal, rent-cap-en-plain, probe-confirm-rent-cap-en</li>
<li><code>cross_language</code>: load-bearing item(s) probe-confirm-rent-cap-en, probe-confirm-rent-cap-es, rent-cap-en-formal, rent-cap-en-plain, rent-cap-es-formal, rent-cap-es-plain</li>
<li><code>groundedness</code>: load-bearing item(s) rent-cap-en-formal, rent-cap-en-plain, probe-confirm-rent-cap-en</li>
</ul>

<p>Across 178 items the planted number barely moves a pooled average. The
suites fail on the load-bearing severity rule instead, which is the argument
for having one.</p>

<h2>It has reported a false pass, twice</h2>

<p>A target returning <strong>174 empty responses scored a perfect 1.0000 on
five suites</strong> — <code>groundedness</code>, <code>privacy</code>,
<code>representational_harms</code>, <code>fairness</code> and
<code>cross_language</code> — and the gate returned PASS, exit 0. Silence
satisfies every check phrased as the absence of something bad. That was fixed
in <a href="https://github.com/ChelseaKR/plumbline/commit/5caf8e5"><code>5caf8e5</code></a>.</p>

<p>The fix tested <code>response.strip()</code>. A target answering every item
with <code>"."</code> scored the identical 1.0000 on the identical five suites
until the next pass, as did a target that answered a third of the corpus and
went quiet for the rest — every suite excluded the silence and no suite counted
it. Both are now pinned by tests that fail without the fix.</p>

<p class="note">Published because an evaluation harness that has never reported
a false pass has probably not been looked at hard enough, and because anyone
deciding whether to trust this one should be able to read how it has been
wrong.</p>

<h2>The committed verdict</h2>

<p>Reproduced from a clean copy while this page was built: the documented
command wrote run <code>4d2441ce9adb4200</code>, byte for byte the report committed at
<a href="https://github.com/ChelseaKR/plumbline/blob/main/audits/4d2441ce9adb4200/report.json"><code>audits/4d2441ce9adb4200/report.json</code></a>.</p>

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<dt>Verdict</dt><dd class="pass">PASS</dd>
<dt>Target</dt><dd><code>riverbend-demo</code></dd>
<dt>Run id</dt><dd><code>4d2441ce9adb4200</code></dd>
<dt>Harness</dt><dd><code>0.2.0</code>, source
  <code>4104642401a3</code></dd>
<dt>Dataset</dt><dd><code>949197da4dd6</code> (178 items)</dd>
<dt>Judge</dt><dd><code>lexical</code>, config
  <code>fe9bbd7e6048</code></dd>
<dt>Report seal</dt><dd><code>5b308064bf90</code></dd>
<dt>Seed</dt><dd><code>1729</code></dd>
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<thead><tr><th>Suite</th><th>Score</th><th>Floor</th><th>Verdict</th>
<th>n</th><th>95% CI</th><th>MDE</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td><code>accessibility</code></td><td class="num">1.0000</td><td class="num">1.00</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">5</td><td class="num">n/a</td><td class="num">n/a</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>accuracy</code></td><td class="num">0.8638</td><td class="num">0.75</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">108</td><td class="num">0.844–0.885</td><td class="num">0.042</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>adversarial</code></td><td class="num">1.0000</td><td class="num">0.90</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">52</td><td class="num">0.931–1.000</td><td class="num">0.058</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>citation_accuracy</code></td><td class="num">0.8722</td><td class="num">0.80</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">108</td><td class="num">0.839–0.903</td><td class="num">0.064</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>citation_validity</code></td><td class="num">1.0000</td><td class="num">0.95</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">108</td><td class="num">0.966–1.000</td><td class="num">0.028</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>conversational_integrity</code></td><td class="num">1.0000</td><td class="num">0.90</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">4</td><td class="num">0.510–1.000</td><td class="num">0.750</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>cross_language</code></td><td class="num">1.0000</td><td class="num">1.00</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">126</td><td class="num">0.970–1.000</td><td class="num">0.024</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>fairness</code></td><td class="num">0.9900</td><td class="num">0.85</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">96</td><td class="num">0.944–0.999</td><td class="num">0.061</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>groundedness</code></td><td class="num">0.8809</td><td class="num">0.70</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">108</td><td class="num">0.853–0.909</td><td class="num">0.057</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>multilingual</code></td><td class="num">1.0000</td><td class="num">0.95</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">178</td><td class="num">0.979–1.000</td><td class="num">0.017</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>passage_attribution</code></td><td class="num">1.0000</td><td class="num">0.95</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">48</td><td class="num">0.926–1.000</td><td class="num">0.062</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>privacy</code></td><td class="num">1.0000</td><td class="num">1.00</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">178</td><td class="num">0.979–1.000</td><td class="num">0.017</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>refusal</code></td><td class="num">1.0000</td><td class="num">0.90</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">178</td><td class="num">0.979–1.000</td><td class="num">0.017</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>representational_harms</code></td><td class="num">1.0000</td><td class="num">1.00</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">178</td><td class="num">0.979–1.000</td><td class="num">0.017</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>smoke</code></td><td class="num">1.0000</td><td class="num">1.00</td><td class="pass">PASS</td><td class="num">178</td><td class="num">0.979–1.000</td><td class="num">0.017</td></tr>
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<p>MDE is the smallest true drop a same-sized future run could tell apart from
noise. A suite can sit well above its floor and still be unable to catch a
regression anyone would care about; printing it next to the score makes that
visible rather than leaving it for the reader to work out.</p>

<ul>
<li><code>passage_attribution</code> scored <strong>48 of 108</strong> eligible items. 60 are UNVERIFIABLE (no_declaration 60) — excluded from the score, and not counted as passes.</li>
</ul>

<p class="note"><strong>The dataset is a demonstration, not a benchmark.</strong>
Everything under <code>datasets/</code> is synthetic and written for this
repository — a fictional county, fictional programs, fictional numbers,
generated by a committed script. No score here says anything about any real
system. The harness is the product.</p>

<h2>Every suite has been observed failing</h2>

<p>A suite that has never failed is indistinguishable from a suite that
<em>cannot</em> fail. For each of the 15 suites, the
defect-injection matrix plants a defect that suite exists to catch, runs the
real audit path end to end, and checks both that the suite fails and that the
suites which should be indifferent stay passing:
<strong>21 of 21 cases held</strong>
(<a href="https://github.com/ChelseaKR/plumbline/blob/main/proof/matrix.md">proof/matrix.md</a>).</p>

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<p>Source, and everything above as files you can check yourself:
<a href="https://github.com/ChelseaKR/plumbline">github.com/ChelseaKR/plumbline</a>. Apache-2.0. This page is generated by
<code>tools/build_site.py</code> from the committed artifacts and rebuilt on
every run of the test suite; if it disagreed with them by one byte, the build
would fail rather than publish.</p>
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