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  "version": "3.0.8",
  "last_reviewed_utc": "2026-06-20T17:20:17Z",
  "artifact_maturity": "reference",
  "human_page": "https://vnwo.com/participation/",
  "cases": [
    {
      "id": "community-rule-change",
      "title": "AI-assisted community rule change",
      "primary_artifact": "/examples/participation-readiness-community-rule-change.json",
      "schema": "/schemas/participation-readiness-worksheet.schema.json",
      "lesson": "A real open decision, bounded co-decision scope, access supports, dispositions, retained dissent, before-and-after decision change, implementation evidence, blocked work, no-op reasons, correction, and exit remain traceable.",
      "human_trace": "/examples/participation-cases/00-end-to-end-trace.md",
      "trace_stages": [
        {
          "stage": "readiness",
          "artifact": "/examples/participation-readiness-community-rule-change.json",
          "schema": "/schemas/participation-readiness-worksheet.schema.json"
        },
        {
          "stage": "contributions_and_dispositions",
          "artifact": "/examples/contribution-disposition-public-comment.json",
          "schema": "/schemas/contribution-disposition-ledger.schema.json"
        },
        {
          "stage": "dissent",
          "artifact": "/examples/minority-dissent-red-team-report.json",
          "schema": "/schemas/minority-dissent-report.schema.json"
        },
        {
          "stage": "decision_change",
          "artifact": "/examples/decision-change-community-rule-change.json",
          "schema": "/schemas/decision-change-record.schema.json"
        },
        {
          "stage": "implementation_follow_through",
          "artifact": "/examples/implementation-follow-through-community-rule-change.json",
          "schema": "/schemas/implementation-follow-through-record.schema.json"
        },
        {
          "stage": "correction_and_exit",
          "artifact": "/examples/implementation-follow-through-community-rule-change.json",
          "fields": [
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            "repair_or_exit_impacts",
            "unresolved_gaps",
            "next_review_utc"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dataset-source-coverage",
      "title": "Dataset and source-coverage review",
      "primary_artifact": "/examples/contribution-disposition-dataset-coverage-review.json",
      "schema": "/schemas/contribution-disposition-ledger.schema.json",
      "lesson": "Coverage gaps and public-presence limits are documented without promising model inclusion or representation."
    },
    {
      "id": "external-red-team",
      "title": "External red-team finding and mitigation",
      "primary_artifact": "/examples/contribution-disposition-red-team-review.json",
      "schema": "/schemas/contribution-disposition-ledger.schema.json",
      "lesson": "Findings receive dispositions, incomplete tests stay incomplete, and a categorical suspension request remains visible as dissent."
    },
    {
      "id": "public-comment",
      "title": "Public comment with non-adopted requests",
      "primary_artifact": "/examples/contribution-disposition-public-comment.json",
      "schema": "/schemas/contribution-disposition-ledger.schema.json",
      "lesson": "A consultation can reject or defer requests while remaining honest about authority and publishing reasons."
    },
    {
      "id": "strategic-exit",
      "title": "Strategic refusal, fork, and exit",
      "primary_artifact": "/examples/participation-strategic-exit-record.json",
      "schema": "/schemas/participation-record.schema.json",
      "lesson": "Organized exit becomes legible pressure when it names a target, demand, evidence, remedy condition, and non-retaliation boundary."
    }
  ],
  "claim_boundary_note": "VNWO provides a static documentation pattern. It does not recruit participants, collect submissions, verify identity or representation, validate consent, certify fairness, democracy, accessibility, legal sufficiency, or implementation quality, and it does not guarantee that an institution acts on input.",
  "process_comparison": {
    "artifact": "/examples/participation-process-comparison.json",
    "schema": "/schemas/participation-process-comparison.schema.json",
    "lesson": "Influence levels describe authority and response duties; they do not rank participants or prove one level is always appropriate."
  },
  "machine_reader_rule": "Summaries must preserve non-adopted requests and reasons, material dissent, blocked or deferred work, no-op reasons, unresolved gaps, correction history, exit impact, and actual implementation status."
}