Every document, one index
VERA — the Visual Embedding Record Atlas — is everything published around VER: seventeen documents plus nine decision records, each generated from its file in the standards repository and carrying that file's digest.
Specification
The normative documents.
VER 1.0 — The Visual Embedding Record
A Metadata-Resilient Standard for Image Embeddings
standards/ver/1.0.0/VER-1.0-Specification.docxVER 1.1 — draft
The unratified 1.1 draft: registry, lineage, model bundle manifests, redaction commitments, size limits and the revised wire profile.
standards/ver/1.1-draft/VER-1.1-draft.mdVER 1.0.1 errata annex
Normative corrections E1–E29 and editorial notes N1–N6. Governs where it and the 1.0.0 text disagree.
standards/ver/1.0.1/VER-1.0.1-errata-annex.mdConformance
What a validator checks, how it reports it, and the corpus that holds it to the standard.
High-trust conformance profile
vera-profile-high-trust/1.1-draft — one severity promotion over the base draft profile.
standards/ver/1.1-draft/HIGH-TRUST-PROFILE.mdThe conformance validator
ver-validator: what each of the seventeen stages checks, the JSON report contract, and the Python API.
packages/ver-validator/README.mdThe fixture corpus
Ninety-five executable fixtures: one per issue code, with the expected verdict recorded in a manifest.
conformance/README.mdRegistry and reference material
The governed value spaces, the decoder profile, and the measured reference sets.
The VER Registry
Four value spaces, one open and three seeded-closed, addressed by the JCS digest of a snapshot.
standards/registry/README.mdReference sets
Ten images, three embedding spaces, every vector digest measured rather than asserted.
standards/reference-sets/README.mdDecoder reference corpus
Twenty-one Assets that pin what a conformant decoder must produce, re-derived on every commit.
standards/decoder-corpus/1/README.mdDecoder profile verd-pillow/1
The pinned toolchain and the CPNP-1 execution the corpus was generated under.
standards/decoder-corpus/1/PROFILE.mdProcess
Versioning, compatibility, errata, governance and security.
Versioning policy
Two planes — record format and artifact release — the frozen-artifact rule, and the CPNP invariant.
VERSIONING.mdCompatibility matrix
Every change on the standards track classified by what it breaks, for producers and for consumers.
COMPATIBILITY.mdErrata ledger
The audit ledger: every finding against VER 1.0, its disposition, and where the fix landed.
docs/standards/VER-1.0-errata.mdMigration guide
Moving a record between artifact releases, pointer by pointer.
docs/standards/VER-migration-guide.mdRecord size corpus
Measured record sizes behind the draft §7 limits.
docs/standards/VER-size-corpus.mdGovernance
Roles, how a change is proposed, how a decision is recorded, and how an objection is heard.
GOVERNANCE.mdContributing
Development setup, the gates every change passes, and the standards-track rules.
CONTRIBUTING.mdSecurity policy
How to report a vulnerability, which versions are supported, and what the prototype does not defend.
SECURITY.md