Conflicting evidence keeps the verdict vocabulary: the criterion reads unknown and cites both sides

193. Conflicting evidence keeps the verdict vocabulary: the criterion reads unknown and cites both sides

Kontext

Several conversations proposed a fourth state 'conflicted'; the constraint of 2026-10-08 says not to extend the public status vocabulary unless existing semantics cannot represent the state.

Rozhodnutí

The public verdict stays satisfied, unsatisfied, unknown. Conflict is a reason of unknown that lists every source with its standing; nothing is discarded or averaged.

Zamítnuté alternativy

• A fourth public state 'conflicted' (versioned contract, every consumer migrated)
• Latest evidence wins

Důsledky

No schema migration; the UI and explain show the reason; revisit if a consumer needs to act differently on conflict than on unknown.

Sources

Promoted on 2026-10-18 from the owner's ChatGPT project (workspace chatgpt-majordomus, issue I3100). The owner has not accepted it; it is proposed for the owner's decision.

• chatgpt-majordomus:c196#3
• chatgpt-majordomus:c196#6
• chatgpt-majordomus:c221#2