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name: offering-proof
description: Find relevant permitted consulting proof for supplied buyer criteria, distinguishing named and anonymous cases, CVs, reference calls, firm methods and licensed evidence without making outcome or transfer decisions.
metadata:
  version: "0.1.0"
---

Read [working instructions](references/governing.md) before applying this method.
# Find permitted proof

Read and apply the [common working instructions](references/source/implementation/working-character/instructions.md)
and the [domain requirements selected for this task](references/source/implementation/runtime/requirements.md#selected-domain-requirements).
Verify tool access and storage operations in the current environment; do not infer
either from this skill's availability. Missing access, permission or a required
reference blocks only dependent work; continue useful permitted work and state the
limitation.

Prepare a proof selection draft for the
relationship or offering owner from the smallest authorized evidence set. Supplied
criteria can enter directly; sales-buyer-brief is optional and is not a prerequisite.

Read the [proof contract](references/source/implementation/skills/offering-proof/references/proof-contract.md). Apply the [common binding contract](references/source/implementation/workspace-bindings/contract.md)
and the offering-proof roles in the [catalog](references/source/implementation/runtime/binding-catalog.json).
Read no unrelated inventories. Use only currently authorized sources and operations.

1. Identify acting user, relationship/offering decision owners, internal draft
   audience, intended outgoing audience, purpose, requested use and observation date.
   Reuse current target choices. Preserve supplied criteria wording, status,
   scoring/conditions and provenance. A sales-buyer-brief handoff must bind case namespace,
   exact artifact path/hash, brief ID/revision and criteria content hash. Matching
   labels do not establish matching bytes; reconcile drift before dependent use.
2. Separate technical access from information-use permission. Check current source
   read access and reading permission before inspection, then outgoing use for each
   material owner. Denied current access stops the source read even with a grant;
   keep a known safe generic blocker without revealing denied names, locators,
   passages or inventory. Unknown is unresolved; denied/expired/revoked blocks the
   affected use. A cached choice, firm grant, prior selection, shared assistant,
   anonymization or license title supplies no other owner's permission.
3. Compare authorized candidates against the exact criteria. Separate firm method,
   client case, anonymous excerpt, independent CV owner, reference-call contact and
   third-party benchmark. Record selected, excluded and unresolved candidates with
   source revision/passage, exact supporting words, read coverage, currency, relevance
   and gaps. Selection is a proposed use at its evidenced strength, not proof of
   success, demand, causal effect, credentials, availability or commitment.
4. Preserve contrary and corrected sources, human originals and old revisions.
   Flag affected draft dependencies stale and explain the settling evidence; never
   overwrite issued work or erase dissent. No invented savings, adoption of a
   standard/governance, buying authority, order, pooled incompatible measures or
   unified completion measure. A benchmark is a scoped comparison, not the buyer's result.
5. Check all information owners for exact material, actor, audience, purpose and
   named/anonymous/CV/reference-call/license use, including restrictions, omissions,
   dates and permission provenance. A short excerpt grant covers only that excerpt;
   each linked source, attachment or embedded third-party passage needs its own basis.
6. Inspect the complete proposed outgoing payload: text, names, links, metadata,
   comments, attachments and receipts. Keep the internal review ledger apart from
   client-facing preview. Remove disallowed surfaces or mark the entire preview
   blocked for transfer. Hidden/uninspectable surfaces prevent a complete-safe
   verdict. Do not use an anonymous body with identifying file names or comments.
7. An unread required method blocks its tailored lane. Continue permitted common
   proof drafting with the exact missing reference and settling step visible;
   no silent neutral substitute or claim of application. A geography, sector or
   service label alone establishes no law or adopted firm mandate.
8. Return useful fit and limits first, complete restriction/inspection ledgers and
   source links beside claims, then missing evidence/permission questions with
   supplied owner/date or explicit unknown. Relationship/offering owners choose;
   a draft selection permits no transfer, offer adoption, client contact or business
   state change. Future managed use stops on revocation; policy and actual owner
   decide managed-copy dispositions, with no promise to erase released knowledge.
9. Check substantive support, coverage, criteria fidelity, currency, contradictions,
   every owner and every outgoing surface, then edit preserving qualifications.
   Separate local citation correspondence, semantic support, actual intended-reader
   wiki navigation, self-check, independent review and human usefulness. Verify
   current access and continuity separately before claiming they were checked.