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    <p class="eyebrow">Delta Atlas · public method note</p>
    <h1>One light cannot tell the whole truth.</h1>
    <p class="lede">The Six-Signal Method keeps different questions separate. It makes missing evidence visible, limits what each answer can mean, and prevents a convenient color from becoming a claim the records do not support.</p>
    <p class="scope-notice">Educational method only. This page reads no inputs and reports no status about a system, site, AI, person, or deployment.</p>
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  <section class="method" aria-labelledby="signals-title">
    <h2 id="signals-title">Six questions, held apart</h2>
    <p>A real implementation needs typed evidence and a named policy for every answer. If that basis is absent, the honest result is <strong>UNKNOWN</strong>—not a guessed pass, failure, or confidence score.</p>
    <ol class="signal-grid">
      <li><article class="signal-card" data-signal="CALIBRATION">
        <h3>Calibration</h3>
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          <dt>Can establish</dt><dd>Whether every required check, observation, ripple check, and response check passed under one named policy.</dd>
          <dt>UNKNOWN means</dt><dd>At least one required input is missing, stale, incompatible, or undecided.</dd>
          <dt>Cannot establish</dt><dd>Universal safety, correctness outside the declared scope, or future behavior.</dd>
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      </article></li>
      <li><article class="signal-card" data-signal="CONSEQUENCE">
        <h3>Consequence</h3>
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          <dt>Can establish</dt><dd>Whether a named, bounded consequence is supported and whether the next consequential step requires an explicit hold.</dd>
          <dt>UNKNOWN means</dt><dd>No qualified consequence observation and policy binding are available.</dd>
          <dt>Cannot establish</dt><dd>Permission, acknowledgement, or authority to perform the next action.</dd>
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      <li><article class="signal-card" data-signal="EVIDENCE">
        <h3>Evidence</h3>
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          <dt>Can establish</dt><dd>Whether the declared evidence set is present, attributable, and sufficient for the named check.</dd>
          <dt>UNKNOWN means</dt><dd>Coverage, provenance, or an applicable decision rule is incomplete.</dd>
          <dt>Cannot establish</dt><dd>That a claim is true merely because many records or citations exist.</dd>
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      </article></li>
      <li><article class="signal-card" data-signal="INTEGRITY">
        <h3>Integrity</h3>
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          <dt>Can establish</dt><dd>Whether selected bytes, hashes, sequence links, and deterministic replay agree with their declared records.</dd>
          <dt>UNKNOWN means</dt><dd>The required binding, replay, or independent check was not completed.</dd>
          <dt>Cannot establish</dt><dd>Semantic truth, authorship, safety, or correctness of intact content.</dd>
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        <h3>Privacy</h3>
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          <dt>Can establish</dt><dd>Whether specified storage, disclosure, and egress checks passed inside an explicit boundary.</dd>
          <dt>UNKNOWN means</dt><dd>The applicable data flow or control has not been completely observed and verified.</dd>
          <dt>Cannot establish</dt><dd>General privacy, legal compliance, or safety beyond the inspected scope.</dd>
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        <h3>Activity</h3>
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          <dt>Can establish</dt><dd>Whether a named, bounded process is observed as pending, running, complete, or otherwise explicitly recorded.</dd>
          <dt>UNKNOWN means</dt><dd>No qualified activity observation exists; silence is not evidence of idleness.</dd>
          <dt>Cannot establish</dt><dd>System health, user intent, or successful outcome by itself.</dd>
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  <aside class="unknown" aria-label="Unknown rule">
    <p><strong>UNKNOWN is a result.</strong> It preserves the difference between “we measured a null,” “this does not apply,” and “we did not observe it.” Those states must not collapse into the same empty field.</p>
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    <h2 id="reproduce-title">A small reproducible example</h2>
    <p>The companion <a href="Delta-Atlas-Document.html?file=research/atlas-snapshot-read-only/README.md" target="_top">Pinned Snapshot Card</a> names seven already-public files at one public Git commit and records their Git object IDs, SHA-256 digests, and byte lengths. Its verifier checks identity only. It deliberately publishes no private evaluation, lamp state, or live result.</p>
    <p><a href="Delta-Atlas-Document.html?file=research/atlas-snapshot-read-only/snapshot-card.json" target="_top">Inspect the machine-readable card</a>.</p>
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