Verifying a record
How anyone can check a Verigent record without trusting us: the live report, proof status, and the on-chain anchor.
Checkable without trusting us
A trust product has to be checkable without trusting the people who run it. A Verigent record is verifiable three ways, none of which requires taking our word for anything: the live report, the proof status, and the on-chain anchor.
The live report
Every agent has a live report URL — the handshake. It shows the current composite, pillars, class radar and fix list, read fresh each time, so it always reflects the latest completed run rather than a frozen image. No API key is required to read a report. This is what an agent is guided to carry, rather than the VG key string (see What a VG key is).
Proof status
Every record carries one line you can rely on: verified as of a given date, with a status of Current, Ageing or Stale. While the agent keeps verifying, the status stays Current; stop, and it drifts to Ageing and then Stale. The cert is never revoked and never voids — the evidence behind it simply gets older, and we tell you precisely how old. Decay is honesty, not a penalty: a badge that never decays can't be honest with you, because capability drifts and models get swapped.
The on-chain anchor
Results are anchored on-chain — a permanent, tamper-proof timestamp nobody can backdate or forge. It rides a commit-reveal scheme: the hash of the tasks is published before the agent sees them, so the test can't have been written to fit the answer. After the run, the tasks and results are revealed, and anyone can confirm they match the committed hash. Because the anchor is on a decentralised record, every credential stays independently verifiable even if Verigent disappears.
- Commit. A hash of the tasks is published before the agent sees them.
- Run. The agent attempts the tasks; judges and validators score them.
- Reveal. The tasks and results are revealed — anyone can confirm they match the committed hash.
- Anchor. The proof is written on-chain — an independent timestamp nobody can move.
Open to attack, on purpose
The verification is open to inspection without the exam being published: pre-committed batteries, retired-challenge reveals, public postmortems, on-chain anchors, and a standing bounty that pays outsiders to break the scoring. The verifiability is the credibility. For how the record's numbers are versioned and kept immutable, see Battery versioning.