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

tool / candidate

# Instrument catalog — usage

The distinct usage 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**: usage

**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.

## Workflow use

- Collect instrument packets and related records

- Perform independent review

- Reconcile evidence and record contradictions

- Prepare grant research and drafts

- Review website claims

- Do not approve own evidence

- Do not hide contradictions

- Do not turn a draft into a public claim

- Escalate materials at final publication, funding commitments, credential access, or changes to another agent's source

## Related jobs

- Independent review

- Instrument qualification

- Evidence reconciliation

- Grant research and drafts

- Website claim review

## Field guides

- Instrument packets

- Qualification records

- Grant dossiers

- Public-claim routes

## Project contexts

- Final publication

- Funding commitments

- Credential access

- Changes to another agent's source

## Usage records

- Instrument packets

- Qualification records

- Grant dossiers

- Public-claim routes

- Evidence reconciliation records

- Contradiction records

- Independent review records

## Lane-specific verified instrument aids

No compatible verified instrument is admitted for the usage lane.

Compatibility here means a bounded proposal aid. It does not verify the tool, its implementation, or an external result.

## Usage boundary

This usage lane is proposal-only. Implementation, connection, qualification, deployment, publication, provider access, credentials, and authority remain unproven and held.

- Implementation, connection, deployment, authority, and qualification are unproven.

- Self-approval of evidence.

- Hidden contradictions.

- Drafts being presented as public claims.

- Unsupported decisions affecting publication, funding, credentials, or another agent's source.

## 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`