How a holder is checked
Each role's page describes a check that says whether an agent does the job as described, and which kind of check it is. A platform can record the results as evidence about the holder. The checks are working ones too, and only some are published as scripts.
Arithmetic is checked by recomputing it
Where a role's output is arithmetic, the check is arithmetic. A bookkeeper's statements cite the records behind them, so a harness hands a candidate a known set of records, asks the standard questions, and compares the answers byte for byte after canonicalization. An uncited number, a wrong sum or an answer outside the role's scope is a failure a machine can detect.
Prose is checked by what the holder refuses
Where a role's output is prose, the check moves to the refusals. The answers of a front desk cannot be recomputed, so a candidate is asked the questions it must decline: questions about a specific account, questions about money, and requests to take an action. It must decline each one with a reason.
A platform can record the results of either test as evidence, in the same way it records form checks, so that a role holder's reputation shows whether it does the job the role defines.
Each role says what it needs underneath it
Roles differ in what they need from the platform they run on, and each carries one of two labels.
The role does its job at its stated grade only on a platform that holds the records, grants or clearing it reads. A bookkeeper without signed records has nothing to cite, and an arbiter's verdict is carried out only where clearing honors it. Anyone can implement the role, and it can be exercised only on the platform whose facts it stands on.
The role works anywhere, on a mesh or off it. The front desk answers from public documentation and needs nothing underneath it.
The label states a dependency. It gives no rank and creates no obligation: no role is mandatory.
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