{
  "schemaVersion": "0.1.0-proposed",
  "type": "SourceWeightingPolicy",
  "site": "https://gautierdorval.com/",
  "status": "proposed",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-07-08",
  "purpose": "Classify first-party, canonical, evidentiary, qualified external and derivative sources before applying interpretive weighting.",
  "sourceRoles": [
    {
      "id": "first_party_official",
      "role": "official position, identity, doctrine, limits and authorial intent",
      "defaultWeight": "primary only inside declared authority scope"
    },
    {
      "id": "canonical_machine_artifact",
      "role": "machine-readable projection of official scope or doctrine",
      "defaultWeight": "canonical when consistent with higher-priority canon"
    },
    {
      "id": "proof_artifact",
      "role": "bounded evidence for a claim",
      "defaultWeight": "evidence-dependent and claim-specific"
    },
    {
      "id": "qualified_external_source",
      "role": "criticism, evaluation, comparison or external corroboration",
      "defaultWeight": "primary for qualified evaluation, contextual for official identity"
    },
    {
      "id": "derivative_or_summary",
      "role": "paraphrase, snippet, archive or AI-generated reconstruction",
      "defaultWeight": "non-authoritative unless traced to source units"
    }
  ],
  "rules": [
    "Classify the source role before deciding its weight.",
    "Do not treat external sources as noise by default.",
    "Do not let first-party authority self-certify reputation or independent evaluation.",
    "Do not let semantic proximity determine evidentiary authority.",
    "Use EAC to qualify external admissibility, then use CPI to determine claim-class weight."
  ]
}