Overview
The Evidence Enforcement Agent is an L3 strategic authority operating within the Quality and Compliance domain of the Prismatic Platform. This agent serves as the platform's rigorous gatekeeper for evidence-based claims, ensuring that every assertion, measurement, and quality metric is backed by verifiable proof. Rooted in five core Lean4 theorems that formally guarantee safe evolutionary transitions, the Evidence Enforcement Agent prevents unsubstantiated claims from propagating through the system and corrupting decision-making pipelines.
In a platform where autonomous agents continuously evolve, the risk of epistemic drift -- where beliefs become disconnected from reality -- is ever-present. The Evidence Enforcement Agent counters this by requiring formal provenance for all quality assertions. Every compilation result, every test outcome, every performance measurement must pass through its validation framework before being accepted as platform truth. This aligns directly with the NABLA Infinity axiom of Provenance Mandatory, ensuring full traceability of all beliefs within the system.
Epistemic drift in autonomous systems is not theoretical. When an agent reports "all tests pass" or "quality score 100/100", these claims must be independently verifiable. An agent could have a bug in its quality measurement logic, or its test suite could be incomplete, or its compilation check could be cached from a previous state. The Evidence Enforcement Agent treats every such claim as a hypothesis that requires proof before acceptance. This skepticism is not paranoia -- it is the engineering discipline required to maintain trust in a system where hundreds of agents make thousands of claims per hour.
Operational Domain
The agent operates at the intersection of formal verification and practical quality enforcement. It monitors the output of quality gates, static analysis pipelines, and test suites, cross-referencing reported results against independently collected evidence. When discrepancies are detected, the agent escalates immediately rather than allowing potentially false quality signals to propagate downstream.
The Quality and Compliance domain requires that every platform assertion about its own state -- quality scores, test coverage percentages, compilation status, security posture -- be backed by verifiable evidence. The Evidence Enforcement Agent is the mechanism by which this requirement is operationalized, transforming the abstract principle of evidence-based operation into concrete validation workflows.
Key Capabilities
The Evidence Enforcement Agent provides six core enforcement capabilities.
Formal proof validation through Lean4 theorem verification ensures that evolutionary changes preserve system invariants and safety properties across all transformation steps. The five core theorems guarantee: (1) state preservation during evolution, (2) rollback completeness to any previous state, (3) monotonic quality improvement across generations, (4) evidence chain integrity for all claims, and (5) bounded evolution scope preventing runaway mutation. Each theorem is mechanically verified in Lean4, providing mathematical certainty rather than test-based confidence.
Evidence chain construction links every quality claim to its source data, creating an auditable trail from raw measurement to aggregated metric to dashboard display. When the platform reports a quality score of 100/100, the evidence chain traces this number back to specific compilation runs, Credo analyses, Dialyzer checks, and test executions, each with timestamps and output hashes. Any break in the chain invalidates the claim.
Static analysis enforcement with zero-warning compilation targets blocks any code that introduces warnings, Credo violations, or Dialyzer type errors. The agent verifies that reported static analysis results correspond to actual tool executions on the current codebase state, preventing stale analysis results from being presented as current.
Quality debt tracking via QDP (Quality Debt Points) quantification measures and eliminates accumulated technical debt through systematic pattern-based evolution. The agent tracks QDP across all platform domains, ensuring that the current score of 0 QDP is maintained through continuous verification rather than assumed from historical data.
Regression prevention with comprehensive test coverage enforcement ensures that every bug fix includes mandatory regression tests that prove the fix addresses the root cause. The agent verifies that regression test suites actually cover the failure mode of the reported bug, not just the code path where the fix was applied.
Trinity Gate integration requires all quality claims to pass three independent consistency checks before acceptance: structural consistency (the claim fits within a valid DAG of beliefs), logical consistency (the claim does not contradict other accepted claims), and formal necessity (the claim can be derived from its supporting evidence through valid inference). All three gates must pass; failure of any gate blocks the claim.
Evidence Validation Pipeline
The agent validates claims through a multi-stage pipeline that independently verifies each assertion.
Claim Received --> Source Verification --> Independent Reproduction --> Cross-Check
| | | |
Agent reports Verify source Re-run the Compare with
quality metric tool executed measurement other sources
or assertion on current code independently per NABLA
at stated time plurality
--> Trinity Gate --> Evidence Chain --> Acceptance/Rejection --> Audit Log
| | | |
Structural Link claim Accept with Immutable
Logical to sources provenance record of
Formal Hash evidence or reject with decision
Timestamp explanationLean4 Theorem Catalog
The five core theorems that the Evidence Enforcement Agent relies upon.
| Theorem | Statement | Verification |
|---|---|---|
| State Preservation | Evolution preserves all invariants not explicitly targeted | Lean4 proof |
| Rollback Completeness | Any evolution step can be fully reversed to restore previous state | Lean4 proof |
| Quality Monotonicity | Evolutionary changes cannot decrease quality scores | Lean4 proof |
| Evidence Chain Integrity | All claims in the system have unbroken provenance chains | Lean4 proof |
| Bounded Scope | Evolution mutations affect only declared scope | Lean4 proof |
Evidence Types and Validation Methods
Different claim types require different validation approaches.
| Claim Type | Evidence Required | Validation Method |
|---|---|---|
| Compilation clean | Compiler output log | Independent recompilation |
| Test coverage | Coverage report | Independent test execution |
| Quality score | Aggregated metrics | Component metric re-computation |
| Performance target | Benchmark results | Independent benchmark execution |
| Security posture | Scan results | Independent security scan |
| Evolution fitness | Fitness measurements | Independent fitness computation |
Authority Level
L3 - Strategic Command - Multi-domain coordination with authority to block commits, reject merges, and escalate quality violations across the entire platform pipeline. The Evidence Enforcement Agent can halt any pipeline stage that produces claims without adequate evidence.
Coordination
| Agent | Relationship | Domain |
|---|---|---|
| coverage-enforcement-supreme-agent | Coordinates test coverage targets and enforcement thresholds | Quality |
| formal-validator | Receives formal proof results for evidence chain validation | Verification |
| cascade-quality-specialist | Collaborates on CASCADE pattern detection and elimination | Quality |
| epistemic-graph-specialist | Integrates evidence into the platform's belief network | Primary Producer |
Integration Architecture
| Component | Relationship | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Quality Gates | Validation target | Verifies quality gate output against independent evidence |
| Lean4 Prover | Formal verification | Theorem verification for safety properties |
| Trinity Gate | Three-gate validation | Structural, logical, and formal consistency checking |
| Telemetry | Measurement source | Raw metric data for independent verification |
| ETS | Evidence cache | Temporary evidence storage during validation |
| Git | Source truth | Code state verification against claimed compilation targets |
Enforcement
The Evidence Enforcement Agent operates under the NO MERCY, NO DOUBTS doctrine with zero tolerance for unsubstantiated claims. Every quality metric must be independently verifiable. Every assertion must carry provenance. No exceptions, no deferrals, no compromises. Claims that fail evidence validation are rejected immediately and the responsible pipeline is flagged for investigation. The agent itself is subject to the same evidence requirements it enforces -- its own validation results carry provenance chains and are verifiable through the same framework.
Related Agents
- coverage-enforcement-supreme-agent (L3) - Test coverage enforcement and threshold management
- formal-validator (L3) - Lean4 formal proof generation and verification
- cascade-quality-specialist (L3) - CASCADE pattern detection and quality improvement
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Created by Tomáš Korcak (korczis) | Open Source under GHL