Verification Council
Targeted, budget-bounded independent review for uncertain or high-assurance claims.
{
"version": "2026-08-v6",
"availability": "Council capability is advertised only when independent and adjudication roles are configured.",
"invocation": [
"low primary confidence",
"material verifier disagreement",
"numerical or temporal conflict",
"counter-evidence",
"customer council assurance"
],
"method": "Members produce first-pass judgments independently. The orchestrator then builds structured disagreement and evidence matrices for adjudication.",
"authority": "Council members do not vote on truth. Authoritative direct evidence and deterministic results outrank model consensus.",
"composition": "Roles and providers are selected dynamically; reduced provider diversity is disclosed.",
"cost_latency": "Council use can increase fulfillment cost and latency. Every additional call must fit the remaining authorized verification budget.",
"fallback": "If the required assurance cannot be achieved, SnoobScout returns reduced assurance or unverifiable instead of silently presenting a partial council as full assurance.",
"privacy": "Only relevant evidence excerpts are sent, provider restrictions are enforced, and model outputs cannot change budgets, policy, configuration, or payment state.",
"limits": {
"maximum_active_members": 4,
"maximum_wall_clock_ms": 90000,
"maximum_retries": 1
}
}