Trust is an architecture, not a mood.

Every promise should be traceable through its mechanism, evidence, controls, user authority, and recourse.

What the fingerprint establishes

A canonical digest makes change visible when compared with its trusted record. It supplies the fixity signal carried into the wider evidence chain.

What the evidence chain establishes

CAP-1 joins authenticity, integrity, provenance, timestamp, survivability, and reproducibility. Authority, consent, access policy, custody, and recovery remain separately inspectable relationships.

Your controls

Authority, visibility, correction, supersession, export, recovery, and exit remain legible throughout the artifact lifecycle.

Correction and recourse

Disputed records retain a route to human decision, a preserved correction history, and a distinction between the canonical record and later claims about it.