{
  "code": "HUM-02",
  "slug": "source-reliability",
  "title": "Source Reliability and Access",
  "category": "Collection",
  "status": "Current",
  "version": "2.0.4-wip",
  "summary": "Defines reliability, access, motivation, corroboration, handling restrictions, and change over time for sources.",
  "keywords": [
    "source reliability",
    "access",
    "motivation",
    "handling",
    "corroboration"
  ],
  "mission_phases": [
    "Plan",
    "Collect",
    "Validate",
    "Debrief"
  ],
  "canonical": "https://iarpg.com/standard/source-reliability",
  "json": "https://iarpg.com/records/source-reliability.json",
  "requirements": [
    {
      "level": "MUST",
      "text": "A source record separate access from reliability and reliability from truth of a specific report."
    },
    {
      "level": "MUST",
      "text": "Reliability changes require a recorded event and reason rather than silent score mutation."
    },
    {
      "level": "SHOULD",
      "text": "Motivation, placement, handling restrictions, and possible manipulation be visible to authorized roles."
    }
  ],
  "research": [
    {
      "label": "Player trust and reputation networks",
      "href": "/docs/report/hallucinated-ai-quest-design-in-vr-mmorpgs#player-trust-deception-and-reputation-networks",
      "note": "Reliability learning and shared verification patterns."
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "source-handling",
    "provenance-confidence-and-corroboration",
    "synthetic-source-claim-packets"
  ],
  "roles": [
    "Operative",
    "Handler",
    "Intelligence Analyst",
    "Technical Operator",
    "Counterintelligence Officer",
    "Liaison Officer",
    "Logistics Specialist",
    "Source Handler"
  ],
  "interaction_types": [
    "Review",
    "Decide",
    "Record",
    "Handoff"
  ],
  "authority_types": [
    "Civil administration",
    "Military command",
    "Commercial intelligence service",
    "International verification body",
    "Scientific or infrastructure consortium",
    "Independent investigative network"
  ],
  "collection_disciplines": [
    "HUMINT",
    "SIGINT",
    "OSINT",
    "Technical collection",
    "Surveillance",
    "Liaison reporting"
  ],
  "conformance_level": "Level C — Auditable",
  "implementation_maturity": "Published WIP",
  "release": "IARPG-OPS-2",
  "revised_utc": "2026-07-20T12:04:07Z",
  "purpose": "Define how players and synthetic characters gather information while preserving source class, access path, reliability, and collection limitations.",
  "rationale": "Collection is useful only when the game can explain where information came from and what the collector could actually observe.",
  "game_interaction": [
    "Approach source",
    "Observe environment",
    "Collect signal or document",
    "Record access limitations"
  ],
  "inputs": [
    "Collection requirement",
    "Source profile",
    "Access plan"
  ],
  "outputs": [
    "Source report",
    "Observation",
    "Collection log"
  ],
  "state_transitions": [
    {
      "from": "not-applicable",
      "event": "record requirement evaluated",
      "to": "conforming-or-documented-exception"
    }
  ],
  "evidence_and_provenance": [
    "The implementation records the source, UTC event time, mission identifier, responsible role, and reason code for consequential state changes.",
    "Generated dialogue and player interpretation are not stored as authoritative facts without a separate verification event."
  ],
  "ui_requirements": [
    "Show the record code and requirement level at the point of use.",
    "Expose the reason for blocked, failed, escalated, or irreversible actions.",
    "Provide a direct link to the canonical standard and machine-readable record."
  ],
  "accessibility_requirements": [
    "Essential information is available without reliance on color, audio, motion, or a VR-only gesture.",
    "Keyboard, screen-reader, reduced-motion, seated-play, and high-contrast equivalents are documented where the interaction applies."
  ],
  "telemetry_events": [
    {
      "name": "standard.source-reliability.evaluated",
      "required_fields": [
        "event_id",
        "timestamp_utc",
        "mission_id",
        "record_code",
        "result",
        "reason_code"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "abuse_and_exploit_cases": [
    "A participant attempts to omit required context so another role accepts a misleading task.",
    "A generated or user-authored statement is presented as server-authoritative without verification.",
    "A consequential state transition occurs without a durable reason code."
  ],
  "failure_behavior": "Fail closed for irreversible or settlement-bearing actions. Preserve the current state, show the missing requirement, and allow correction or documented exception review.",
  "recovery_behavior": "Restore from the last authoritative event, retain the rejected transition in the audit log, and require a new validated event before continuing.",
  "example_implementation": "A mission interface evaluates HUM-02 before advancing the relevant state and writes the result to the local event log with a UTC timestamp and reason code.",
  "evidence_requirement": "Reviewable provenance required",
  "related_examples": [
    "port-access-anomaly-investigation"
  ],
  "revision_history": [
    {
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "date_utc": "2026-07-19",
      "note": "Initial IARPG-OPS-1 publication."
    },
    {
      "version": "2.0.1-wip",
      "date_utc": "2026-07-19",
      "note": "Expanded for IARPG-OPS-2 workbench, simulation, evidence, accessibility, telemetry, and machine-readable publication."
    },
    {
      "version": "2.0.2-wip",
      "date_utc": "2026-07-19T16:42:07Z",
      "change": "Reviewed for operation-package lifecycle compatibility and local tool integration."
    },
    {
      "version": "2.0.3-wip",
      "date_utc": "2026-07-19T18:45:50Z",
      "note": "Reviewed for integrity-aware package verification, merge, multi-role replay, custody comparison, batch review, backup, publication preview, and release-promotion workflows."
    },
    {
      "version": "2.0.4-wip",
      "date_utc": "2026-07-20T12:04:07Z",
      "note": "Reviewed for canonicalization, round-trip portability, recovery, provenance, compatibility, accessibility, hosting evidence, and stable-promotion gates."
    }
  ]
}