The scenario
Done In Seven LLC grants a deployment agent authority for a single release window, evaluates its release policy, expects a deploy inside the window, and records the performed deploy with a passing verdict.
How FORAY models it
Governance events run through the same four components with zero special fields: the authority grant is an Arrangement between principal and agent; the policy evaluation is an Accrual whose formula block records the checks that ran; the expected behavior is an Anticipation; the performed act is an Action with the verdict in status (F15). The grant's attested artifact is a digest in artifact references (F29); the run's trace id rides in residue.
The event has no monetary substance, so the required monetary facts — the transaction amount (F7) and the Action's settled amount (F9) — are 0: the honest value, not an omission.
Why an amount on a governance record at all? The four components record commitments, judgments, expectations, and events — and commitments are assets in the accountant's sense: a receivable is a promise, and so is a grant of authority. Where a commitment is bounded, the amount can carry its measure — a 50,000 USD approval ceiling, say. Where an event has no measure, the amount carries the honest value 0 — an assertion that nothing was measured, not an omission. How the catalog defines the amount's measure per transaction-type family is an open item of the general-audit coverage pass.
What to observe in the record
- The policy evaluation’s formula identifier proves which policy definition was declared and that it is unaltered since — not that the policy ran, or ran correctly.
- F29 carries a digest-identified external artifact — the attested release artifact.
- Business and governance records validate under the same rules; the columns differ in content, not structure.
The record
Wire 4.2 record
This record is a teaching example, emitted by the FORAY generator (template governance-agent-activity) — not hand-written. No blockchain anchoring has occurred or is implied; anchor-related fields are placeholders. Parties, amounts, and dates are illustrative. Wire keys are catalog codes (F-codes); the readable names used in the prose above are the implementer register, which never appears in hashed bytes.
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}Canonical form — the hashed bytes
The canonical byte form is a single line: F-coded members in ascending numeric order, envelope members in their ruled enumeration, one legal spelling per number. The hash below is computed over exactly the bytes shown — copy the line into any SHA-256 tool to reproduce it.
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