{
  "manifest_version": "1.0",
  "as_of": "2026-08-27",
  "scope": "Canonical public product facts, state semantics, architecture invariants, and evidence entry points. This manifest is not an exhaustive claim inventory.",
  "product": {
    "name": "M.A.I.C.",
    "expanded_name": "Macro-Adaptive Intelligence Core",
    "publisher": "Alpha Crypto Intelligence",
    "category": "crypto-native capital operating environment",
    "classification": "probabilistic crypto research and governance software",
    "boundaries": [
      "non-custodial",
      "no trade execution",
      "not a broker or exchange",
      "no control of external accounts",
      "model-reference outputs rather than individualized portfolio instructions"
    ]
  },
  "public_state_contract": {
    "confirmed_public_state": "latest weekly-confirmed governance state",
    "terminal_early_state": "provisional protected state that may change before confirmation",
    "presentation_states": {
      "OFFENSE": "blue",
      "CORE": "green",
      "STANDBY": "yellow",
      "DEFENSE": "red",
      "DEGRADED": "grey"
    },
    "invariant": "EARLY / PROVISIONAL != WEEKLY-CONFIRMED PUBLIC STATE"
  },
  "architecture_invariants": [
    "Observation is not authorization.",
    "Analysis is not allocation.",
    "Evidence is not permission to deploy.",
    "Nothing downstream can manufacture its own authority.",
    "Asset selection cannot create upstream capital permission.",
    "Execution remains outside the M.A.I.C. decision boundary."
  ],
  "evidence_entry_points": {
    "historical_evidence": {
      "url": "https://alphacrypto.app/#evidence",
      "description": "Published historical performance, replay, model diagnostics, adverse-outcome context, and survivability evidence."
    },
    "category_method": {
      "url": "https://alphacrypto.app/category-evidence/",
      "method_version": "1.1",
      "description": "Versioned C1-C8 category definition, chronology rule, precedence standard, and challenge protocol."
    },
    "architect_record": {
      "url": "https://alphacrypto.app/architect/",
      "description": "Dated public provenance record with original-source links."
    },
    "core_doctrine": {
      "url": "https://alphacrypto.app/documents/MAIC_Core_Doctrine_Decision_Architecture_EN_2026-08.pdf",
      "description": "Public doctrine and decision-architecture paper."
    }
  }
}