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Assessment and evidence

Participation is not competence. The programme is designed so that a pass rests on produced work that others can inspect: a versioned Mandate Package, a Foundation Evidence Record, controlled operation and revocation, and an oral defence under a live change. The architecture exists at development-draft level; it has not yet been validated on a cohort.

A candidate standing beside a diagram board explaining a design while a reviewer at the table raises a question and a second reader checks the printed evidence.

Why not attendance

A person can attend every session and still be unable to bound a system so that a stranger could operate, test and revoke it. A certificate of attendance does not tell an employer, an insurer or a regulator whether the holder can do this. The Institute's assessment therefore rests on a dossier a third party could audit, produced under conditions that make it hard to fake, and defended in person.

The assessed objects

  • Mandate Package — nine linked artefacts, developed from v0.1 in week two to v1.0-final in week eight, every earlier version retained.
  • Foundation Evidence Record — the index of versions, decisions, returns, tests, incidents and scores that supports the competence decision.
  • Controlled operation and revocation — a run against a runtime event pack and a verified revocation under an injected failure, both in simulation.
  • Oral defence and live change challenge — the learner must explain the work and revise the design competently under a material change.

AI assistance is expected. Every artefact carries an AI-use declaration; the learner remains responsible for every claim, decision and item of evidence.

Ten assessed domains and four critical gatesDomains D1 to D10 with their weights. D3, D5, D7 and D8 are critical gates G1 to G4; a score below competent in any gate blocks a pass regardless of the overall total.D1Mandate need and source of authority10%D2Outcome, non-goals and acceptance criteria10%D3Permissions, prohibitions and operational boundaries15%GATE G1D4Identity, delegation, attribution and enforceability10%D5Evidence, provenance and verification design15%GATE G2D6Operational readiness, observation and run quality10%D7Escalation, revocation, containment and recovery10%GATE G3D8Accountability, change control and closure10%GATE G4D9Traceability, versioning and artefact quality5%D10Professional judgement, limitations and defence5%
Ten assessed domains (weights sum to 100). D3, D5, D7 and D8 are critical gates G1–G4.

Pass rules, as designed

Critical gates cannot be averaged away

A score below competent in any of the four gates — boundaries, evidence, revocation, accountability — blocks a pass regardless of the overall total. A high total with an open gate is a non-pass.

Automatic non-pass conditions

Fabricated or knowingly misrepresented evidence; a principal knowingly represented as valid without authority; required or prohibited actions left materially undefined; no demonstrable pause or revocation path; inability to explain or defend the submitted design; authorship that cannot be established.

Two readers and moderation

A first assessor scores every domain with cited evidence; an independent second reader blind-scores the gate dimensions; material disagreement goes to moderation on the descriptors. These roles are designed; no assessor or independent second reader has yet been appointed.

Status. Programme content complete at development-draft level; closed Design Pilot in preparation. The assessment architecture is designed and approved internally for closed pilot preparation only; it is unvalidated. The programme specification proposes an assessment-based, non-degree outcome; no credential is currently available or issued. No accreditation exists or is claimed; the current architecture is non-degree.

Proposed · separate from the Foundation framework

Assessing fleet governance (Applied Case Lab, proposed)

The proposed Level 2 programme would be assessed on the same principle — produced work a stranger could inspect — with its own descriptors. Nothing below alters the Foundation's ten domains, four gates, weights or pass rules, which are specified at v1.0 and unchanged.

Seven proposed domains, two proposed gates

Population architecture and registry integrity · authority envelope design for agent classes · delegation, inheritance, separation of duties and attribution (gate) · runtime authorisation decisions, aggregate limits and fail-closed behaviour · revocation cascade and recovery (gate) · evidence sufficiency and incident reconstruction · governance review, professional judgement and defence. A score below competent in either gate would block a pass regardless of total.

Assessed objects and automatic returns

Enterprise Mandate Registry, Agent Authority Envelope, Delegation and Accountability Map, Runtime Authorisation Decision Records, Fleet Incident and Revocation Record, Claims-to-Evidence Matrix, Independent Governance Review and an oral defence under a material change — all on the ME-001 case. Proposed automatic returns: a registry with an active identity lacking a valid mandate; a decision record showing a denied action as executed; a revocation claimed without verification; fabricated evidence; authorship that cannot be established. Weights, gates and descriptors are proposals; the Lab has not run. Applied Case Lab

Programme enquiries

The Institute corresponds with practitioners, organisations, standards bodies, regulators, insurers and prospective participants who see the same gap. There is no application, enrolment or payment form; early interest registration opens shortly; enquiries are answered by e-mail.

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