{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "id": "council",
  "title": "Verification Council",
  "summary": "Targeted, budget-bounded independent review for uncertain or high-assurance claims.",
  "sections": {
    "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
    }
  },
  "version": "2026-08-v6",
  "effective_at": "2026-08-10T00:00:00Z",
  "content_hash": "sha256:464b2f5e0a8dc6f59e1b3fd42a83ba432e3d35a5818d4f1050b0986c33207dad"
}