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Decision Assurance Infrastructure

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Summit Cognitive builds the assurance layer for consequential, increasingly automated decisions. These docs cover the Decision Receipt API — the live service that evaluates an autonomous agent's proposed action for admissibility and returns a cryptographically signed receipt whose signature can be checked offline against a pinned public key.

An agent merges a pull request, changes infrastructure, grants access, ships a deployment. Each of those is a decision. The question this platform answers is not only was it authorized? but can it be shown to have been right? — reconstructed from its evidence, checked against policy, replayed deterministically, and contested by anyone who cares to. A Decision Receipt is the record that makes that possible.

Live API

The Decision Receipt API is running now at https://decrec.summitcognitive.ai. You can sign up for a free key and produce a verifiable receipt in about five minutes — start with the Quickstart, or try the interactive playground.

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Understand the model

Four short concept pages explain the receipt and the evidence model behind it. Read them in order, or jump to whatever you're wiring up.

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How a receipt is made

Every receipt comes out of the same four-part evaluation. The anatomy page covers each in detail; in brief:

  1. Evidence. You submit a claim with one or more typed, provenanced sources — CI results, code review, test output, human approval, model traces, and more.
  2. Policy. The claim is judged against a policy — minimum sources, distinct source types, confidence, provenance, replay, and risk scope — producing a verdict of ALLOWED, ESCALATED, or BLOCKED.
  3. Replay. The decision is checked for deterministic reproducibility; a non-deterministic result is recorded as such rather than quietly passed.
  4. Attestation. The declared signed core carries an Ed25519 signature that is checkable offline against independently pinned key material. Legacy chain coordinates are outside that signature.
The wider work

The Decision Receipt API is the developer-facing edge of a larger argument about accountable machine-mediated authority. The book Admissible Reality makes the long case; the Warrant podcast and Dispatches essays work it out in public; Research holds the papers.