SHADOW FINALITY

Observe first. Do not ask the institution to trust a new blocker on day one.

Existing agents and workflows keep operating. Finality independently reconciles authoritative post-state and records every disagreement as a signed comparison candidate.

Inspect Reference Run Open Buyer Challenge

Reference run

2 discrepancies. Zero upstream mutations.

Shadow mode exists to lower deployment friction while preserving a falsifiable comparison record.

OPERATING MODE: READ_ONLY_NO_BLOCKING_NO_MUTATION
EVENTS OBSERVED: 3
DISCREPANCIES: 2
UPSTREAM MODIFIED: FALSE
PRODUCTION DEPENDENCY CREATED: FALSE
BUYER-APPROVED EXPOSURE: terms by agreement

Promotion rule

Shadow evidence earns the right to test, not the right to claim adoption.

A qualified buyer can move from read-only comparison to a buyer-controlled hidden-case challenge without first making Finality a production dependency.

Read-only connector

Buyer-approved log and system-of-record access; no public raw data path.

Frozen source contract

Authority, freshness, contradiction and closure rules are committed before result review.

Discrepancy ledger

Existing completion signal and Finality result are preserved side by side.

Next step

Buyer controls hidden truth and tries to break Finality.