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title: "Artifact-form examples prove through the reviewing parent · Agentic Atlas"
description: "Artifact-form examples prove through the reviewing parent: Artifact-form examples keep a non-meta body and prove stable through their reviewing parent."
canonical: "https://agentic-atlas.dev/decisions/0015-artifact-form-example-proof"
last-updated: "2026-08-19"
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Manifest-selected Decision

Canonical id

0015-artifact-form-example-proof

Status

accepted

Catalog order

8

Catalog revision `35263c4c415da742953d0462804fb14424e2244dae4c63efd27e468988de70ab`

# 0015: Artifact-form examples prove through the reviewing parent

**Status:** accepted **Date:** 2026-08-06

## Context

The reviewed `tell-me-a-joke` exemplar exposed a collision in interchange v1.0.1. R1 required every `fleshed` example to carry the eight-section example skeleton, and R5 required every `stable` example to link to its parent from the body. For an artifact-form example, that body is the prose an agent loads at runtime. Satisfying the contract would make the runnable artifact carry corpus commentary; keeping the artifact honest capped its earned rung.

ADR 0011 had already established the governing boundary: corpus identity rides in the artifact's YAML frontmatter, never in its runnable body. The remaining proof obligations needed the same artifact-form reading.

## Decision

**Artifact-form examples keep a non-meta body and prove `stable` through their reviewing parent.** They are exempt from R1's example-section skeleton. For R5, the direction of the evidence link reverses: the breadcrumb parent's *Evidence* section links to the runnable artifact. The artifact's checked frontmatter establishes identity; the parent-side link establishes realness and the review relationship without adding corpus prose to runtime context.

The publisher encodes the ruling in interchange v1.1.0, with a conforming artifact fixture and a mutation whose parent omits the evidence link. Atlas issue #55 and PR #75 are the publisher-side cross-reference. The pin bump here to `interchange-v1.1.0` is the act of adoption under AUTHORING §7.

## Consequences

- `tell-me-a-joke` can carry its earned `stable` status without changing its one-line runnable body.
- Regular example nodes retain the forward parent-link rule and the full example skeleton; the reversal belongs only to artifact-form examples.
- A `stable` artifact whose parent does not link to it from *Evidence* is still refused. The exemption removes corpus commentary, not proof.
- Future artifact-form kinds require their own explicit contract clause; this ruling does not create a general escape from kind obligations.

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