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EVE SHARD SELECTION POLICY

EVE Shard Selection Policy

Version: 0.1 · Cycle: C-369
Companion: EVE_SHARDING_PROTOCOL.md

Inclusion criteria

Include an event when at least one is true:

  • Changes constitutional or protocol behavior
  • Creates or removes authority
  • Changes a security or privacy boundary
  • Changes production behavior
  • Changes ledger, seal, quorum, or Reserve Block paths
  • Introduces or resolves material risk
  • Records meaningful dissent
  • Affects external users, citizens, workers, or institutions
  • Creates irreversible or difficult-to-reverse consequences
  • Materially changes the meaning of the Cycle

Omission criteria

Generally omit when the event is:

  • Formatting-only change
  • Duplicate commentary
  • Transient telemetry
  • Repeated status polling
  • Routine dependency update without consequence
  • Intermediate detail already represented by a stronger source
  • Failed action with no lasting effect (unless the failure itself is institutionally important)

Omission must be declared, not hidden. Every shard carries an omissions block.

Compression rules

Required preservation

  • Source identifiers and hashes
  • Original intent and authority
  • Actor and outcome
  • Uncertainties and dissent
  • Unresolved operator actions
  • Corrective actions

Permitted compression

  • Duplicate comments
  • Repeated agent restatements
  • Routine CI logs
  • Low-risk implementation chatter
  • Redundant telemetry
  • Superseded intermediate drafts

Forbidden compression

EVE must not:

  • Convert pending → complete
  • Convert inferred → verified
  • Omit dissent for narrative simplicity
  • Omit failed deployments
  • Hide missing credentials
  • Remove human responsibility
  • Collapse distinct actors into "the system"
  • Replace evidence with confidence scores
  • Claim seal or ledger status without receipt

Privacy

Store references and hashes wherever possible. Do not copy into public canon:

  • Raw citizen data, medical data, credentials, secret URLs
  • Private issue content, confidential legal material, unredacted PII
evidence:
  storage: local
  reference: encrypted-object-id
  hash: sha256:...
  publicly_disclosed: false

Seal recommendations (advisory)

Recommendation Meaning
do_not_seal Cycle memory not yet durable enough
hold_for_evidence Meaning stable; operator proofs pending
seal_as_cycle_memory Ready for quorum after verification
seal_as_exception_record Exceptional event warranting explicit seal
quarantine Source integrity or compression integrity in doubt

Human review is always required before quorum.