business-registry

Authoritative Registry Verifier

BR-03 replaces fragmented validation commands with:

python -m registry_verify

Gates

Each canonical profile receives seven gates:

Gate	Checks
json	Parseability and top-level object shape
schema	Draft 7 schema plus active format checking
semantic	Folder/slug parity, normalized domain, HTTPS URLs, bounded non-empty values, status/method compatibility, chronology, and duplicate array values
clean	Internal worksheet and workflow-marker leakage
credential	Evidence status, publication permission, and credential chronology
consent	Verification-compatible public-safe consent assertion
privacy	Forbidden intake fields, tokens, keys, secrets, DNS values, and unconsented public contacts

Repository gates additionally enforce:

• canonical file layout;
• unique entity slugs and primary domains; and
• byte-for-byte parity for all six generated indexes;
• exactly one publication receipt per profile;
• receipt/profile identity, policy, byte-count, and hash parity;
• source, lineage, approval, chronology, and receipt privacy rules; and
• byte-for-byte deterministic manifest parity.

BR-04 report schema 1.1 adds receipts, receipt counts, and manifest artifact counts. Verifier version 1.1.0 applies five gates to each receipt:

Gate	Checks
receipt-json	Parseability and top-level object shape
receipt-schema	Draft 7 receipt schema plus active format checking
provenance	Source type, lineage, commit, URL, workflow, and timestamp semantics
integrity	Profile identity, policy, byte count, raw SHA-256, and canonical SHA-256 parity
receipt-privacy	Private field, secret, token, and commercial-data exclusion

Human Output

python -m registry_verify

The command exits 0 only when every gate passes. Failures include stable check codes, file paths, and JSON paths.

Machine-Readable Output

Write a JSON report while retaining human console output:

python -m registry_verify --report registry-verification-report.json

Or emit JSON to standard output:

python -m registry_verify --format json

Report schema version 1.1 includes verifier version, timestamp, summary, per-profile checks, per-receipt checks, and repository checks.

Test Suite

python -m unittest discover -s tests -v

Fixtures cover valid claimed and unclaimed profiles plus negative cases for format validation, consent, privacy, internal markers, credentials, chronology, slug parity, duplicate identity, receipt lineage, hash tampering, receipt coverage, deterministic manifest drift, index drift, and reproducible release snapshots.

CI

The canonical workflow runs the verifier and tests on every pull request and every push to main. The JSON report is preserved as a workflow artifact even when verification fails.

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