Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/instrument-catalog/boundaries/

tool / candidate

# Instrument catalog — boundaries

The distinct boundaries record for Instrument catalog. This page is proposal-only.

Status: **proposed**Lifecycle: **candidate**

## Record status

**Record ID**: tool:instrument-catalog

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: contract boundaries

**Lane lifecycle**: proposed

**Owner**: Tilly

**Owner role**: Pointguard and independent reviewer

**Owner status**: Not separately recorded

**Qualification result**: NOT RUN · held for evidence and human review

**Working browser surface:** [Tools — overview](<https://guthlabs.ai/labs.html#tools>) — Inspect the tool contract, usage, boundaries, and proposed qualification checks. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held.

## Hazards and failure states

- Cataloging may be mistaken for implementation, connection, deployment, or qualification.

- A supplied directory status may be mistaken for proof that this tool is connected or authorized.

- Incomplete or contradictory evidence may lead to unsupported claims if records are not held.

- Self-review could compromise independence.

- Draft grant or website material could be published without a separate authorization gate.

- Exact-slug mismatch could associate evidence with the wrong instrument.

- Changes to another agent's source could exceed authority.

- Credential, funding, and publication decisions may be improperly delegated to the catalog.

## Claims potentially allowed after source review

- The proposed tool is bounded to cataloging, qualification support, evidence reconciliation, and review routing.

- Tilly is the supplied owner agent and is associated with Pointguard and independent reviewer responsibilities.

- The supplied source record lists the related jobs and field guides.

- The tool should preserve contradictions, prevent self-approval, and keep drafts separate from public claims.

- The listed compatible instruments are proposal-only mappings based on exact supplied slugs.

## Claims held

- The implementation exists or is deployed.

- The tool is connected to any instrument or provider.

- Any cataloged instrument is qualified beyond the supplied directory status.

- The tool can make final publication decisions.

- The tool can commit funding, grant awards, credential access, or source changes.

- Any customer use, current metric, operational effect, or production reliability.

- Any public claim derived from a draft, grant dossier, or review packet without a separate authorization record.

## Source gates and never-rules

The source record provides 4 principal gates and 3 never-rules. This page does not infer or add to those counts.

- Final publication

- Funding commitments

- Credential access

- Changes to another agent's source

- Approve her own evidence

- Hide a contradiction

- Turn a draft into a public claim

## Sources and evidence

These pointers bind the page to evidence. They do not grant authority or collapse verification into deployment.

- `source_record:tool:instrument-catalog`

- `agents/index.html#tilly`