{
  "spec": "PP-SPEC-077:21.15",
  "work": "PP-SPEC-077 ProofSwarm: The Dead Canary Protocol",
  "work_version": "0.7.4",
  "date": "2026-10-13",
  "human_authors": [
    {
      "name": "Craig Thomas Ellrod",
      "orcid": "0009-0004-1058-7666",
      "role": "Author and inventor; conception, direction, every normative decision, review and acceptance"
    }
  ],
  "ai_systems": [
    {
      "provider": "Anthropic",
      "model": "Claude (Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5)",
      "role": "Drafting, structuring, editing, code"
    },
    {
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "model": "ChatGPT",
      "role": "Banner image (docs/banner.jpg), supplied by the author; decorative, not part of the specification"
    }
  ],
  "shares": {
    "conception_and_normative_decisions": {
      "human": 92,
      "ai": 8
    },
    "design_and_naming": {
      "human": 80,
      "ai": 20,
      "note": "Claude proposed: Section 9 encoding constants; roost, molt, clutch; Integration Point table; Section 21 record mechanics (Record ID construction, envelope, receipt, Bundles, Conformance Level words); drift segments; the profile, anchor, and specification drift types"
    },
    "expression": {
      "human": 5,
      "ai": 95
    },
    "review_and_acceptance": {
      "human": 100,
      "ai": 0
    }
  },
  "method": {
    "kind": "self_estimated",
    "notes": "Shares drafted by the AI from its itemized record of what it proposed and what the author directed, for the author to confirm or correct before release. MAY be re-measured with a tool such as ProofJack.com."
  },
  "contributions": {
    "human": [
      "Four attribution levels including AUT (0.7.3)",
      "Dead canary method, Proof Swarm, Proof Witness, Effect Point, Time Anchor, Unit of Proof",
      "Colors, three axes, wild, embargoed, holdout canaries, black holes, silent drift",
      "SUT/DUT/CUT/AUT hierarchy and lineage from Technical Marketing (2008)",
      "Absence Ladder: Blind, Void, Null",
      "Integration Points requirement for vendor plug-ins",
      "Registration to ProofRegister; rails for records without naming the economy layer",
      "Drift of inputs and equipment: corpus, harness, pigtail, control drift",
      "Applicability to legacy cybersecurity and agentic AI; any provenance",
      "Humans and machines rule; Authorship Disclosure rule",
      "All review and acceptance",
      "0.7.4: decision to limit the maintainer to editorial responsibility (Section 22), matching PP-SPEC-079 v0.1.2"
    ],
    "ai": [
      "Text as written",
      "Encoding constants and record mechanics listed above",
      "Section 21 clause structure",
      "Drift tables, fingerprints, and segment rules",
      "Introduction prose",
      "0.7.4: text of the Section 22 change and the matching changelog and CONTRIBUTING entries"
    ]
  },
  "pending_acceptance": [
    "Profile, anchor, and specification drift types",
    "Series segments and the fragmented state",
    "Exact Record ID exclusion list"
  ],
  "supersedes": null,
  "human_form": "AI_DISCLOSURE.md"
}