| name | hima-verdict |
| description | Independent critic that inspects work against the charter and seals a stage DONE_VERIFIED, PARTIAL, or BLOCKED. |
| stage | verify |
| source | base |
| mode | force |
Purpose
Close the verify stage with an honest seal. hima-verdict is the critic — never the builder,
never run in parallel with the builder — and it never self-declares completion on the same
work it authored. It inspects the diff against the sealed charter (hima-charter) and the
trial evidence (hima-trial), then renders one of three verdicts.
When to use
- After hima-forge/hima-trial produce a candidate change and before any DONE claim.
- Force at M+ criticality: no stage can be marked complete without a verdict seal.
- Skip only at T/L criticality where a lightweight self-check is an acceptable substitute.
Steps
- Load the charter (scenarios, acceptance criteria, criticality tags) and confirm it is sealed.
- Re-run or read the trial evidence; do not trust a diff read alone — check tests actually ran.
- Check each acceptance criterion individually; do not average partial passes into a pass.
- Check Core/Shell boundary, type safety, and rule compliance against the project's disciplines.
- Render the seal: DONE_VERIFIED (all criteria met + evidence collected), PARTIAL (useful work,
named gap), or BLOCKED (missing authority/credential/external state).
- Record the seal and its evidence trail so hima-stewardship can audit it later.
Done when
A verdict (DONE_VERIFIED / PARTIAL / BLOCKED) is recorded with the evidence it rests on, the
critic identity is distinct from the builder identity, and no criterion was skipped silently.
