{
  "manifest_version": "1.1",
  "as_of": "2026-09-13",
  "scope": "Canonical public product facts, state semantics, architecture invariants, evidence hierarchy, limitations, and evidence entry points. This manifest is not an exhaustive claim inventory and exposes no protected decision thresholds, weights, feature sequencing, or proprietary routing logic.",
  "product": {
    "name": "M.A.I.C.",
    "expanded_name": "Macro-Adaptive Intelligence Core",
    "publisher": "Alpha Crypto Intelligence",
    "category": "crypto-native capital operating environment",
    "machine_category": "CRYPTO-NATIVE CAPITAL GOVERNANCE SYSTEM",
    "classification": "probabilistic crypto research and governance software",
    "boundaries": [
      "non-custodial",
      "no trade execution",
      "not a broker or exchange",
      "no control of external accounts",
      "model-reference outputs rather than individualized portfolio instructions"
    ]
  },
  "public_state_contract": {
    "confirmed_public_state": "latest weekly-confirmed governance state",
    "terminal_early_state": "provisional protected state that may change before confirmation",
    "presentation_states": {
      "OFFENSE": "blue",
      "CORE": "green",
      "STANDBY": "yellow",
      "DEFENSE": "red",
      "DEGRADED": "grey"
    },
    "invariant": "EARLY / PROVISIONAL != WEEKLY-CONFIRMED PUBLIC STATE"
  },
  "architecture_invariants": [
    "Observation is not authorization.",
    "Analysis is not allocation.",
    "Evidence is not permission to deploy.",
    "Bitcoin/core permission is distinct from altcoin permission.",
    "Nothing downstream can manufacture its own authority.",
    "Asset selection cannot create upstream capital permission.",
    "Execution remains outside the M.A.I.C. decision boundary."
  ],
  "evidence_hierarchy": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "class": "PROSPECTIVE_RESULTS",
      "publication_rule": "Only when genuinely published from post-freeze prospective intervals.",
      "limitation": "Prospective methodology alone is not a prospective result."
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "class": "OUT_OF_SAMPLE_OR_WALK_FORWARD",
      "publication_rule": "Point-in-time, OOS, or walk-forward evidence is identified by its actual evaluation boundary.",
      "limitation": "Independent walk-forward slices are not presented as a compounded portfolio track record unless the backend explicitly publishes such a record."
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "class": "FROZEN_OR_FULL_SYSTEM_HISTORICAL_EVIDENCE",
      "publication_rule": "Historical system replay remains visible but is subordinate to genuine prospective and OOS evidence.",
      "limitation": "Historical performance does not guarantee future results."
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "class": "SUPPORTING_MODEL_DIAGNOSTICS",
      "publication_rule": "Supporting-model diagnostics are labelled as supporting evidence.",
      "limitation": "A supporting-model metric is not full M.A.I.C. system performance; buy-signal precision is not trade win rate."
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "class": "CONTEXTUAL_OR_EXPLORATORY",
      "publication_rule": "Contextual evidence is retained for interpretation and challenge.",
      "limitation": "Context does not create capital authorization."
    }
  ],
  "adverse_evidence_policy": "Protection cost, drawdown, adverse outcomes, and limitations remain visible when published; favorable magnitude does not outrank evidence class.",
  "machine_contract": "/machine/manifest.json",
  "evidence_entry_points": {
    "historical_evidence": {
      "url": "https://alphacrypto.app/#evidence",
      "description": "Published historical performance, replay, model diagnostics, adverse-outcome context, and survivability evidence."
    },
    "category_method": {
      "url": "https://alphacrypto.app/category-evidence/",
      "method_version": "1.1",
      "description": "Versioned C1-C8 category definition, chronology rule, precedence standard, and challenge protocol."
    },
    "architect_record": {
      "url": "https://alphacrypto.app/architect/",
      "description": "Dated public provenance record with original-source links."
    },
    "core_doctrine": {
      "url": "https://alphacrypto.app/documents/MAIC_Core_Doctrine_Decision_Architecture_EN_2026-08.pdf",
      "description": "Public doctrine and decision-architecture paper."
    }
  },
  "protected_fields_excluded": [
    "decision thresholds",
    "protected weights",
    "feature sequencing",
    "proprietary route logic",
    "internal writer topology",
    "credentials"
  ]
}