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FOUNTAIN ANTI GAMING DOCTRINE

Fountain Anti-Gaming Doctrine — GI95 as Provisional Review Gate

Version: 0.1 · Cycle: C-369 · Status: PROPOSED

Canonical rule

GI95 opens a provisional review condition. It does not automatically mint MIC, guarantee rewards, or expose a deterministic farming recipe.

Fountain state machine

State Meaning
DORMANT GI below eligibility range
OBSERVING Monitoring without reward messaging
APPROACHING GI high — no "push to 95" UI
AUDIT_REQUIRED Weight freeze + adversarial review
PROVISIONAL_GI95 Crossed .95 — not yet eligible
SUSTAINED_GI95 Survived required cycle count
REVIEW_WINDOW_OPEN Eligible wallets may request Integrity Grade
QUARANTINED Manipulation or unresolved contradictions
CLOSED Window ended or revoked

See fountain-state.schema.json.

GI95 survival requirements

Before REVIEW_WINDOW_OPEN, GI95 must survive:

  • Sustained-cycle verification (not a point-in-time spike)
  • Source-diversity checks
  • Weight-history review
  • Adversarial replay
  • Holdout measurements where applicable
  • Unresolved-quarantine disclosure
  • Human and sentinel review

UI constraints

Forbidden:

"Complete these actions to push GI to 95."

Allowed:

"The network's current attested integrity estimate is improving. Fountain eligibility requires sustained verification and independent audit."

Transparency vs protection

Public: domains measured, weighting philosophy, source classes, agent roles, review rules, amendment history.

Protected: exact short-term weights, holdout signals, anti-gaming detector internals, audit timing, adversarial test composition — governed and auditable per GOODHART_RESISTANCE_DOCTRINE.md.

No automatic MIC issuance (C-369)

C-369 establishes doctrine and schemas only. Runtime must not wire automatic MIC issuance, Fountain payouts, or wallet grading mint paths in this cycle.