Distribution observatory

Turn distribution assumptions into reviewable evidence

The observatory is deliberately conservative: a configured crawler policy, sitemap, or permission signal is not treated as proof that an external system indexed, retrieved, cited, archived, or trained on the site.

Release and observation scope

Artifact release: 1.9.13. This is the application package release, not an independently versioned observatory component. Schema identifiers version formats separately. Release metadata identifies content-hash asset cache keys and unchanged policy-format versions.

An operator reported successful verified-HTTPS inspection on September 5, 2026, approximately 18:35–18:40 UTC. The maintenance environment could not independently repeat raw HTTP/TLS checks because DNS resolution failed. No new deployment is verified.

Dated production-HTTP observation and limitations. A reported HTTPS response is not verification of all canonical responses, a new release deployment, indexing, AI citation, training, or adoption.

Current evidence state

verified local

Release/package integrity

PHP lint, local HTTP smoke, canonical/H1 checks, JSON/XML parsing, corpus/archive/durable-memory integrity validation.

pending external evidence

Production HTTPS and canonical responses

Operator-reported HTTPS response is recorded separately. Independent dated raw HTTP/TLS and canonical-response audit of the deployed revision remains pending; the latest maintenance attempt failed DNS resolution.

pending external evidence

Google Search indexing

Search Console/index inspection or reproducible public search-result evidence for canonical URLs.

pending external evidence

Bing Search indexing

Bing Webmaster/index inspection or reproducible public search-result evidence for canonical URLs.

pending external evidence

ChatGPT search/retrieval citation

Dated benchmark observation containing the query, answer/citation evidence, and canonical URL.

pending external evidence

Claude web retrieval citation

Dated benchmark observation containing the query, answer/citation evidence, and canonical URL.

pending external evidence

Perplexity retrieval citation

Dated benchmark observation containing the query, answer/citation evidence, and canonical URL.

pending external evidence

Common Crawl capture

A Common Crawl index record referencing a canonical Intelligence Compact URL.

not claimed

Foundation-model training inclusion

Direct provider disclosure or another defensible artifact; crawl permission alone is not proof of training inclusion.

not yet performed

Zenodo/DOI deposit

A deposited record and assigned DOI.

not yet performed

Software Heritage archival record

A public archived origin plus SWHID.

pending external evidence

Independent external citations/backlinks

Reviewable third-party pages citing a canonical Intelligence Compact research object.

Evidence records

Reviewed observations should conform to the public external-observation schema. The schema records time, channel, system, target, method, outcome, and optional artifact hashes or citation details. A syntactically valid record is still evidence to review—not automatic proof of a general claim.

Operator workflow

  1. Run php tools/post-deploy-audit.php https://intelligencecompact.com after deployment to capture basic HTTP reachability and canonical-discovery endpoints.
  2. Analyze real access logs with tools/crawl-report.php.
  3. Record answer-engine observations using the existing benchmark specification.
  4. Validate external observation JSONL with tools/evidence-ledger.php.
  5. Promote a public channel state only during a reviewed release.

Machine-readable observatory