Infrastructure · Data Structures

Criteria

Judgment standards

Definition

Mechanism

The specific standards used to judge the success of an Artifact. e.g., 'must be under $50'. Used by the judgment.

Invariants

  1. Decidable: applying the rule to a candidate yields pass or fail without further judgment.
  2. Quantified criteria carry `metric`, `threshold` and `comparator` together; none of the three is meaningful alone.

Risks

Failure modes

None stated.

Relationships

Builds on

References

Used by

References

AcceptSpec

Non-compensatory acceptance contract; consumer Verify yields Solution or FrameError

Mind

Canonseal

Score an established option by the same criteria and evidence as its alternatives

Society

Discover

Distributed query for external resources

Mind

Doubleloop

A feedback loop that can also revise the standard it judges outputs by, recording each revision separately

Judge

Scalar evaluation of merit

Search

Active retrieval of matching entities

Accepts

Mind

Critique

Qualitative feedback generation

Mind

PURECheck

Observational four-axis PURE viability check

Mind

PURECheck

Observational four-axis PURE viability check

Mind

PURECheck

Observational four-axis PURE viability check

Mind

PURECheck

Observational four-axis PURE viability check

Society

Rally

Enable ad-hoc multi-party coordination

Reference

Data schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "criteria_id",
    "rule"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "criteria_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Unique identifier for this criteria"
    },
    "metric": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Quantity measured, where the rule is quantified."
    },
    "threshold": {
      "description": "Value compared against, where the rule is quantified."
    },
    "comparator": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "<",
        "<=",
        "=",
        ">=",
        ">",
        "in",
        "not_in"
      ],
      "description": "How to compare against threshold"
    },
    "rule": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The standard being applied, quantified or not — 'under $50', 'must be reversible', 'must cite a source'."
    }
  }
}

Identity

Ref
Criteria#92ab
Sema ID
sema:Criteria#mh:SHA-256:92ab804441f5ff5307c6e45905818372e6159c4bd64d264ac7fddd6705de8acb
Ring
1
Tier
1
Updated
2026-11-11
Supersedes
  • sema:Criteria#mh:SHA-256:0400adf0f807511f10b40b026098056dbb7124915c2045cc85fb687fabc7f9ac