External validation status

Status date: September 25, 2026

Applied Harness Operations v0.3 set a target of external operator review and at least one independent reproduction.

At the v0.3 release-candidate stage, the project has not received inspectable independent reproduction evidence that satisfies the published evidence methodology.

The project therefore does not claim:

• independent validation of the reference model;
• community consensus;
• external endorsement;
• independent reproduction of the approved-artifact handoff example;
• independent live verification of the product capability matrix.

v0.3 decision

Ship the evidence-backed project-maintained work without manufacturing an external-validation claim.

The external review target remains open as post-v0.3 follow-up. Future reports should use the repository template and the same version/scope/evidence rules as comparison contributions.

A real external report that identifies a model defect should take priority over expanding the taxonomy.

Evidence available in v0.3

Project-maintained evidence includes:

• deterministic approved-artifact handoff failure tests;
• documentation-backed, version-scoped implementation mappings;
• credential-free exact-version interface smoke tests for Codex and Claude Code;
• canonical comparison-data validation and source links;
• production website browser QA.

None of those substitute for independent review.