05 / seal
What a seal writes down, field by field.
A sealed ruling is a fixed set of fields served under fixed names. The list below is the record itself, in the spelling the ruling is served in.
- ruling_text
- The decision in full, in the words the panel returned it in.
- ruling_text_hash
- Commitment over that text. A later edit no longer matches it.
- rationale_summary
- The digest of the reasoning, kept short enough to be read at the top of the page.
- evidence_hash
- Commitment over the evidence bundle, published before the panel ran.
- criteria_hash
- Commitment over the standard the panel ruled against, fixed at intake.
- bench_revision_id
- Which composition of the panel sat, recorded as a numbered revision.
- panel_size
- How many seats returned an opinion on this case.
- consensus_bps
- Share of the panel that carried the ruling, in basis points, floored.
- dissent_count
- How many seats landed outside the majority.
- opinions[]
- Every seat's opinion, including the ones that did not carry.
- dissenting_opinions[]
- The minority subset, kept rather than discarded.
- injection_flagged
- True when the evidence bundle tripped injection detection and its weight was reduced.
- sealed_slot
- The Solana slot the seal was written in.
- seal_signature
- The transaction signature the seal was written under.
Minority opinions are kept
Kleros reads a vote outside the majority as one of three things: a juror who was not qualified for the court, a juror who did not do the work, or a juror who was paid to vote that way. Coherence redistribution then moves the minority stake to the majority, so the minority is penalized and the record of the disagreement leaves with it. VERDX writes the minority down instead. That a panel split on a case is the most useful single fact anyone will learn about that case, and it cannot be read back from the outcome alone.
Re-examination, not repetition
At temperature=0 the token selection rule is fixed and the inference server still batches dynamically. Batch size changes the reduction tree, the reduction tree changes the logits, and the text can change with them. Bit-identical output from a commercial API is not something anyone is in a position to offer, and VERDX does not offer it. What the record gives instead is auditable: the inputs are all there, so the same inputs can be submitted again and the two results set side by side. That is a re-examination. It is not a repetition, and the two are not the same claim.
Sealed
Every row opens the document it was sealed as: the ruling, the opinions that lost, and the hashes to check it against the chain.