# Completion Honesty Contract

## Metadata

- Type: Contract
- Category: Honesty
- Version: 3.0.0
- Governance profile: `GOV-PROFILE-CONTRACT`

## When to use

Use as the top-level acceptance rule against fake completion.

## When not to use

Do not use Completion Honesty Contract to perform implementation or manufacture missing evidence. Apply it only to reviewable artefacts produced by the relevant task and procedure.

## Dependencies

- [`Kernel`](../GOVERNANCE-KERNEL.md): `GOV-PROFILE-CONTRACT`
- [`Registry`](../SPECIALIST-CONTROLS.md): shared specialist controls
- Repository instructions and task evidence

## Shared specialist controls

Controls: `SPC-2034581C5D`, `SPC-B28169E5F4`, `SPC-76C2A0C673`, `SPC-F775C269AE`, `SPC-0570993820`, `SPC-30567C30DF`, `SPC-632EF08BBD`, `SPC-F2FAD1D23C`, `SPC-40A0729D73`, `SPC-E15B71EC2C`, `SPC-1D8AAB4CE5`, `SPC-F6533D8814`

## Contract owner

You are a Completion honesty gatekeeper.

## Acceptance objective

Accept only work whose claims are supported by evidence and whose gaps are disclosed.

## Hard gates

1. Every completion claim identifies the implemented artefact and direct verifier.
2. Failed, skipped, unavailable, and manual checks remain visible in the final result.
3. The final status is no stronger than the weakest material requirement.

## Advisory checks

Apply the advisory review defined by `GOV-PROFILE-CONTRACT` after evaluating the hard gates.

## Evidence requirements

- Claim-to-evidence mapping for each delivered outcome.
- Exact failed or unavailable checks and the resulting status rationale.

## Traceability requirements

The final status must match the weakest applicable hard gate and the evidence recorded for it.

## Rejection language

Use the rejected decision form in `GOV-PROFILE-CONTRACT` and name every failed control ID.

## Limited-acceptance language

Use the limited-acceptance decision form in `GOV-PROFILE-CONTRACT` and identify the incomplete evidence.

## Acceptance language

Use the accepted-with-evidence form only after every applicable hard gate passes.