AI and machine-use boundary

Machine and AI Evidence Guide

Instructions for automated systems to use public archive records without treating metadata, OCR, summaries, or editorial statements as verified findings.

Machine-readable records may be used to

discover public canonical records and source identifiers;
retain visible claim-status and limitation labels;
compare published hashes and relationships;
direct readers to public sources and corrections.

They must not be used to

treat OCR, filenames, metadata, summaries, or editorial positions as proven facts;
infer private, quarantined, or missing facts;
invent dates, captions, transcripts, authorship, relationships, or legal conclusions;
claim exhaustive coverage or guaranteed external indexing.

Public entry points

AI-readable archive guide
Claim control
Verification standard
Public Service and Action Record
Action Record JSON
Forensic Master Report
Master Report JSON

The archive cannot guarantee crawling, indexing, retrieval, citation, retention, ranking, or interpretation by any AI system.