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Pointguard

Proposal-only independent review and evidence-reconciliation tool for instrument qualification, grant research and drafts, and website claim review. It identifies contradictions and authority-boundary issues for human owners; it does not approve publication, funding, credentials, source changes, or public claims.

Status: proposedLifecycle: candidate

Record status

Record ID
tool:pointguard
Parent lifecycle
candidate
Page lane
contract
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 — 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.

Bounded contract

Proposal-only independent review and evidence-reconciliation tool for instrument qualification, grant research and drafts, and website claim review. It identifies contradictions and authority-boundary issues for human owners; it does not approve publication, funding, credentials, source changes, or public claims.

Owners

  • Tilly
  • Pointguard and independent reviewer

Inputs

  • Evidence submitted for independent review
  • Instrument qualification materials
  • Grant research and draft materials
  • Website claims and supporting sources
  • Requested review gate: final publication, funding commitment, credential access, or source change

Outputs

  • Structured review findings
  • Evidence reconciliation record
  • Contradiction register
  • Qualification review record
  • Draft-versus-public-claim status
  • Escalation recommendation to an independent reviewer or responsible owner

Required or proposed record references

The list defines expected records; it does not assert that any record instance exists.

  • Submitted evidence inventory
  • Source and provenance record
  • Independent review assignment
  • Evidence reconciliation record
  • Contradiction register
  • Instrument qualification record
  • Grant dossier review record
  • Public-claim review record
  • Decision and escalation log
  • Reviewer independence attestation

Route contract

The links below are this site's admitted canonical public records. Source-lane route suggestions are proposals only and are not represented as live or canonical until separately admitted.

Held source-proposed extensions

  • /docs/pointguard/review-boundary: Defines independent review, evidence reconciliation, and non-approval limits.
  • /docs/pointguard/qualification-records: Specifies the proposed record structure for instrument qualification and unresolved findings.
  • /docs/pointguard/contradiction-register: Explains how conflicting evidence is recorded without concealment.
  • /docs/pointguard/public-claim-review: Separates draft material from claims eligible for public publication.
  • /docs/pointguard/gate-escalation: Describes escalation for publication, funding, credential, and source-change gates.
  • /docs/pointguard-independent-review: Explain the independent-review workflow, reviewer separation, evidence handling, and escalation behavior.
  • /docs/pointguard-instrument-qualification: Define the records and checks needed to qualify an instrument; do not imply that Pointguard itself is qualified to approve instruments.
  • /docs/pointguard-grant-dossiers: Describe grant research and draft review using grant dossiers, with unresolved evidence clearly marked.
  • /docs/pointguard-public-claims: Explain website claim review and the prohibition on turning drafts into public claims without review.
  • /docs/pointguard-principal-gates: Document review controls for final publication, funding commitments, credential access, and changes to another agent's source.
  • /docs/pointguard/overview — purpose, scope, lifecycle, and non-authority notice.
  • /docs/pointguard/governance — owners, independent-review requirement, never-rules, and principal gates.
  • /docs/pointguard/instrument-packets — required packet contents and evidence inventory procedure.
  • /docs/pointguard/qualification-records — deterministic qualification fields, statuses, failures, and contradiction handling.
  • /docs/pointguard/evidence-reconciliation — source precedence, discrepancy logging, and unresolved-evidence rules.
  • /docs/pointguard/grant-dossiers — research and draft handling without converting drafts into funding commitments.
  • /docs/pointguard/public-claim-routes — claim review, publication boundary, and held-claim labels.
  • /docs/pointguard/accessibility-privacy-abuse — testable accessibility, data-minimization, privacy, and misuse controls.
  • /docs/pointguard/authority-boundaries — prohibited self-approval, credential access, source changes, and unsupported authority claims.
  • /docs/pointguard/review-records/example — redacted schema example using only supplied facts and explicit unknowns.

These extension paths are not generated by this record and must not be treated as resolving routes.

Sources and evidence

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

  • source_record:tool:pointguard
  • agents/index.html#tilly