{
  "updated": "2026-07-04",
  "title": "Public Record Intake Manifest",
  "mission": "Feed Matrix Reprogrammed with source-first public records, not unsupported claims. Each lane tells the machine where to look, what record type matters, what control layer it touches, and what evidence grade it can support.",
  "boundary": "A feed route is not proof by itself. The machine must keep records, allegations, hypotheses, and unsupported claims separate.",
  "evidence_ladder": [
    "proven / convicted",
    "charged / sued",
    "documented association",
    "public-record conflict",
    "credible allegation",
    "hypothesis",
    "unsupported claim"
  ],
  "intake_lanes": [
    {
      "id": "federal-register-policy",
      "name": "Federal Register policy and rulemaking feed",
      "control_layers": ["policy", "emergency_power", "identity_access", "security"],
      "source_type": "official government API",
      "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/documentation/api/v1",
      "machine_use": "Track proposed rules, final rules, agency notices, emergency powers, identity systems, financial rules, security policy, health policy and disclosure notices.",
      "record_tests": ["agency", "publication_date", "document_number", "type", "citation", "official_pdf_url"],
      "watch_queries": ["digital identity", "biometric", "emergency", "surveillance", "financial institution", "gold", "sanctions", "public health", "cybersecurity"],
      "evidence_grade_supported": "documented association"
    },
    {
      "id": "sec-edgar-filings",
      "name": "SEC EDGAR filings and company facts",
      "control_layers": ["money", "companies", "ownership", "risk_disclosure", "infrastructure"],
      "source_type": "official government API",
      "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces",
      "machine_use": "Track company filings, ownership disclosures, risk factors, contracts, subsidiaries, executive changes, material events, and XBRL facts.",
      "record_tests": ["CIK", "accession_number", "form", "filing_date", "company_name", "ticker", "item_type"],
      "watch_queries": ["AI infrastructure", "data center", "government contract", "cybersecurity incident", "material agreement", "related party", "beneficial ownership"],
      "evidence_grade_supported": "documented association"
    },
    {
      "id": "courtlistener-court-records",
      "name": "CourtListener / Free Law legal records",
      "control_layers": ["courts", "litigation", "disclosure", "conflicts", "people"],
      "source_type": "legal records API / bulk data route",
      "source_url": "https://www.courtlistener.com/help/api/",
      "machine_use": "Track lawsuits, opinions, dockets, legal parties, judicial records, public conflicts and follow-up record requests.",
      "record_tests": ["court", "docket_number", "case_name", "date_filed", "party", "document_url", "opinion_id"],
      "watch_queries": ["Epstein", "sealed", "sanctions", "racketeering", "fraud", "conflict of interest", "public records", "FOIA"],
      "evidence_grade_supported": "charged / sued"
    },
    {
      "id": "usaspending-contracts",
      "name": "USAspending federal awards and contracts",
      "control_layers": ["money", "contractors", "public_private", "security", "health", "technology"],
      "source_type": "official government spending API",
      "source_url": "https://api.usaspending.gov/docs/",
      "machine_use": "Track contracts, grants, recipients, award amounts, agencies, subcontracting routes, emergency spending and public-private control routes.",
      "record_tests": ["award_id", "recipient", "agency", "amount", "award_type", "period_of_performance", "place_of_performance"],
      "watch_queries": ["biometric", "digital identity", "surveillance", "AI", "cloud", "vaccine", "migration", "emergency", "border", "cyber"],
      "evidence_grade_supported": "documented association"
    },
    {
      "id": "regulations-dockets",
      "name": "Regulations.gov dockets and comments",
      "control_layers": ["policy", "lobbying", "public_comments", "agency_capture"],
      "source_type": "official rulemaking docket route",
      "source_url": "https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/",
      "machine_use": "Track comments, supporting documents, agency dockets, influence campaigns and public-private policy pressure.",
      "record_tests": ["docket_id", "agency", "comment_id", "document_type", "posted_date", "submitter"],
      "watch_queries": ["identity", "payment", "health data", "surveillance", "AI", "bank", "climate", "emergency"],
      "evidence_grade_supported": "documented association"
    },
    {
      "id": "fec-political-money",
      "name": "FEC campaign finance data",
      "control_layers": ["political_money", "influence", "donors", "committees"],
      "source_type": "official government API",
      "source_url": "https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/",
      "machine_use": "Track donors, committees, independent expenditures, candidate funding routes and political money patterns.",
      "record_tests": ["committee_id", "candidate_id", "contributor_name", "amount", "date", "expenditure_type"],
      "watch_queries": ["technology", "defense", "bank", "pharma", "AI", "surveillance", "crypto", "foundation"],
      "evidence_grade_supported": "documented association"
    },
    {
      "id": "lobbying-disclosure",
      "name": "US Senate lobbying disclosure data",
      "control_layers": ["lobbying", "policy", "corporate_influence", "public_private"],
      "source_type": "official disclosure route",
      "source_url": "https://lda.senate.gov/system/public/",
      "machine_use": "Track lobbying clients, registrants, policy issues, spending totals and policy pressure routes.",
      "record_tests": ["client", "registrant", "issue_code", "amount", "filing_period", "lobbyists"],
      "watch_queries": ["digital identity", "AI", "banking", "public health", "defense", "migration", "data privacy"],
      "evidence_grade_supported": "documented association"
    },
    {
      "id": "ofac-sanctions",
      "name": "OFAC sanctions list data",
      "control_layers": ["sanctions", "money", "entities", "security"],
      "source_type": "official sanctions data",
      "source_url": "https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-list-service",
      "machine_use": "Track sanctioned entities, aliases, programs, jurisdictions, identifiers and money-control routes.",
      "record_tests": ["name", "alias", "program", "identifier", "address", "list_date"],
      "watch_queries": ["bank", "oligarch", "cartel", "crypto", "shipping", "arms", "intelligence"],
      "evidence_grade_supported": "documented association"
    },
    {
      "id": "eu-tenders-contracts",
      "name": "EU TED public procurement notices",
      "control_layers": ["contracts", "public_private", "europe", "infrastructure", "security"],
      "source_type": "official EU procurement route",
      "source_url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/",
      "machine_use": "Track EU tenders, awards, contractors, public infrastructure, health procurement, border systems, digital ID and surveillance contracts.",
      "record_tests": ["buyer", "supplier", "contract_value", "notice_type", "publication_date", "CPV", "country"],
      "watch_queries": ["biometric", "border", "surveillance", "digital identity", "cloud", "AI", "security", "health"],
      "evidence_grade_supported": "documented association"
    },
    {
      "id": "uk-companies-house",
      "name": "UK Companies House company filings",
      "control_layers": ["companies", "directors", "ownership", "filings", "networks"],
      "source_type": "official company registry route",
      "source_url": "https://developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/",
      "machine_use": "Track companies, directors, persons with significant control, filings, incorporations, dissolutions and network routes.",
      "record_tests": ["company_number", "company_name", "officer", "PSC", "filing_date", "status"],
      "watch_queries": ["foundation", "security", "media", "consulting", "technology", "offshore", "intelligence"],
      "evidence_grade_supported": "documented association"
    },
    {
      "id": "world-bank-projects",
      "name": "World Bank projects and procurement",
      "control_layers": ["development_finance", "NGOs", "infrastructure", "policy", "global_money"],
      "source_type": "international public data route",
      "source_url": "https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889386-developer-information-overview",
      "machine_use": "Track development finance, projects, procurement, policy programs, NGOs, contractors and institutional money routes.",
      "record_tests": ["project_id", "country", "sector", "commitment_amount", "borrower", "implementing_agency"],
      "watch_queries": ["digital ID", "health", "climate", "migration", "governance", "surveillance", "payment systems"],
      "evidence_grade_supported": "documented association"
    },
    {
      "id": "news-signal-not-evidence",
      "name": "News signal intake - not evidence by itself",
      "control_layers": ["narrative", "early_warning", "media"],
      "source_type": "signal only",
      "source_url": "https://www.gdeltproject.org/",
      "machine_use": "Detect patterns, headlines and narrative shifts. This lane can trigger record searches but cannot prove claims by itself.",
      "record_tests": ["source", "date", "headline", "event_theme", "linked_primary_record"],
      "watch_queries": ["redaction", "sealed", "contract", "emergency", "digital ID", "sanctions", "gold", "central bank", "Epstein"],
      "evidence_grade_supported": "signal only"
    }
  ],
  "machine_tasks": [
    "For every live-intel drop, attach at least one source lane and one missing-record question.",
    "For every person or institution, attach a filings route, court route, contract route, policy route, or registry route where possible.",
    "For every claim, assign the evidence ladder before showing it as a finding.",
    "For every news signal, search for the primary record before upgrading the evidence grade.",
    "For every clock movement, name the record that would confirm or reduce the risk score."
  ]
}