hima-verdict

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.