PC-1 — Provenance & Claims Test

Control Type: Verification trigger
Status: Ready now
Intent: Prevent unverified claims from becoming trusted inputs

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Purpose

PC-1 ensures that claims are checked before they are relied upon, especially under pressure.

It exists to interrupt a common failure mode:

“This sounds right, and we need to move.”

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Use When

• an AI system makes factual, causal, or predictive claims
• a decision relies on external data, models, or reports
• urgency increases pressure to trust without verification
• claims cross organizational or authority boundaries

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What This Control Requires

For each claim:

• source identification (who/what produced it)
• confidence or uncertainty disclosure
• verification path (how it could be checked)
• escalation trigger if verification is incomplete

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Pass / Fail

PASS → claim may inform decisions
FAIL → invoke SLOW or STOP (SL-1)

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Output

• Verified / Unverified status
• Source + confidence note
• Trace of verification decision