Add green check trust decision post

[Haserjian]

Adds a short public thesis post explaining why verification status is not equivalent to trust or reliance. Links to the live Claim Gap Report demo as the proof artifact.

Summary

• Adds docs/a-green-check-is-not-a-trust-decision/index.html.
• Links the post from the docs homepage navigation and Claim Gap callout.
• Adds the post URL to docs/sitemap.xml.

Safety boundaries

• Does not accuse a real company or claimant.
• Does not overstate Assay engine capabilities.
• Uses the existing static Claim Gap Report as the concrete example.
• No engine, verifier, or policy runtime changes.

Validation

mode: checkpoint
verdict: "CONFIRMED static green-check thesis post added"
base_head_sha: "93194bea64761b19e36a4ec763774bd12b184ffb"
branch: "codex/green-check-post"
confirmed:
  - "HTML parsed locally."
  - "Post route rendered locally in browser."
  - "Homepage link rendered locally; two post links present."
  - "Post links to the live Claim Gap Report demo."
  - "No browser console errors observed."
  - "Temporary preview server stopped."
not_checked:
  - "Production GitHub Pages render was not verified."
  - "Repo test suite was not run; static docs only."

Files changed

• docs/a-green-check-is-not-a-trust-decision/index.html
• docs/index.html
• docs/sitemap.xml

Not included

• No engine changes.
• No verifier changes.
• No admissibility module.
• No production GitHub Pages verification yet.

[github-actions]

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[github-actions]

Assay PR Gate: PASS - proceed to normal review

Recommended action: proceed
Reason: none

Subject:

• repo: Haserjian/assay
• PR: Add green check trust decision post #147
• head commit: 4d651b8
• diff hash: sha256:4e9810bdaabb2e39e89f9cb1ab2d0000e3852aad6cff311917a64ae6c40bdac7

Verdict channels:

• Integrity: PASS
• Claim: NOT_EVALUATED
• Replay: NOT_RUN
• Trust policy: PASS

Evidence:

• Evidence Box: proof-pack/pack_manifest.json
• Verification Report: signed-report/verify_report.json
• Signature Proof: signed-report/verify_report.sigstore.json

Do not infer:

• code is secure
• all possible tests passed
• AI made a good design decision
• replay was performed
• production approval was granted

Signed by expected workflow:
https://github.com/Haserjian/assay/.github/workflows/assay-pr-gate.yml@refs/heads/main

How to verify:

• Download assay-pr-gate-report, then run assay pr-gate verify against proof-pack/ and signed-report/.

How to challenge:

• Comment with missing evidence, stale policy, signer trust, replay divergence, overbroad claim, or contradictory evidence.

Workflow run:

• https://github.com/Haserjian/assay/actions/runs/25614341331

Artifact:

• assay-pr-gate-report

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Adds a new static documentation post articulating that “verification/green check” is not equivalent to trust/reliance, and wires it into the docs site navigation and sitemap for discoverability.

Changes:

• Adds a new thesis post page at docs/a-green-check-is-not-a-trust-decision/index.html.
• Adds links to the new post from the docs homepage navigation and the Claim Gap Report callout.
• Adds the new post URL to docs/sitemap.xml.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
docs/a-green-check-is-not-a-trust-decision/index.html	New static post page explaining the “green check ≠ trust decision” thesis and linking to the Claim Gap Report demo.
docs/index.html	Adds homepage navigation + CTA link to the new post.
docs/sitemap.xml	Adds the new post URL to the sitemap for indexing.

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