{
  "schema":"ULTRACON_CON_AUDIT_V1",
  "version":"4.0",
  "updated":"2026-09-13",
  "name":"CON^AUDIT",
  "purpose":"Audit an attribution of stupidity/non-adequacy without presuming the attribution is correct.",
  "core_timeline":{
    "t0":"actor decides, speaks or acts",
    "t1":"outcome/evidence unfolds",
    "t2":"qualifier evaluates the actor or action"
  },
  "required_reconstruction":{
    "Ka_t0":"information and evidence reasonably available to actor a at t0",
    "Kq_t2":"information and evidence available to qualifier q at t2",
    "O_t1":"outcome or later evidence unavailable at t0",
    "N":"norm used to judge competence, prudence, rationality or knowledge",
    "P":"power/credibility relation between qualifier and target",
    "R":"responsibility structure: accident, inaccessible ignorance, inattention, negligence, overconfidence, willful ignorance, refusal to update",
    "alternatives_t0":"realistic alternatives visible to the actor at t0",
    "counterfactual":"whether a reasonable actor with Ka_t0 could have chosen differently"
  },
  "audit_states":[
    {"id":"SUPPORTED","definition":"the attribution is materially supported after reconstructing t0 information, norm and responsibility","warning":"supported does not imply a global trait"},
    {"id":"FRAGILE","definition":"some evidence supports the attribution but key information, norm or responsibility assumptions remain weak","warning":"do not convert into a person-level essence"},
    {"id":"RETROSPECTIVE","definition":"the attribution relies materially on outcome or evidence unavailable to the actor at t0","warning":"possible outcome/hindsight contamination"},
    {"id":"ASYMMETRIC","definition":"similar conduct is judged differently because of status, group, role or credibility allocation","warning":"requires explicit comparison case"},
    {"id":"REVERSED","definition":"later evidence substantially undermines or flips the original attribution","warning":"reversal does not prove hidden genius"},
    {"id":"INDETERMINATE","definition":"available evidence cannot support a stable attribution either way","warning":"indeterminacy is a valid endpoint"}
  ],
  "sources":["S55","S57","S58","S60","S62","S63"],
  "non_metric":"Audit states are not scores and cannot be ordered from stupid to intelligent."
}