ethos-verify

ethos-verify is the in-tree Rust crate for parser-agnostic citation evidence verification over the GroundingSource boundary. It depends on ethos-core without parser internals and keeps verification limited to the current source-tree evidence-grounding contract.

ADR-0006 reserves the public crates.io identifier ethos-verify at 0.0.0-reserved.0.

For the v0.2.0 release-candidate lane, verification consumers should treat this as the Rust package for running checks over caller-provided GroundingSource evidence:

ethos-doc-core = { version = "0.2", features = ["grounding"] }
ethos-verify = "0.2"

ethos-verify returns structured reports. Grounded, ungrounded, stale, unsupported, and capability-limited outcomes are report data. They are not infrastructure failures unless a caller uses a CLI enforcement flag such as ethos verify --fail-on-ungrounded.

Default fingerprint matching is security-relevant: when citations are fingerprint-pinned, stale or unverifiable source fingerprints fail closed in the report.

Publication Boundary

• Publication metadata is activated for the approved crates.io candidate surface.
• Public installation from crates.io remains blocked until refreshed tag/source binding and operator evidence are recorded.
• The reserved crates.io placeholder remains 0.0.0-reserved.0 until registry action is explicitly recorded.
• This README supports package-publication activation review only.
• v0.2.0 registry install wording remains in release-candidate status until publication, registry availability, and clean smoke tests are recorded.

Metadata Notes

• License: Apache-2.0 through workspace metadata.
• Notice: see NOTICE.md in this crate and the repository root NOTICE.
• Source repository: https://github.com/docushell/ethos.
• Public package name for future review: ethos-verify.