docs/PERPLEXITY_BRIEF.md

Public research brief for external analysts

Use this brief with Perplexity or any external analyst to validate the SZL Holdings public substrate. The goal is evidence collection, not marketing copy.

Research question

Validate that SZL Holdings has a public, GitHub-backed governed-AI substrate centered on A11oy, with UDS/Zarf packaging, receipt-chain audit evidence, formal-methods references, and a generated Hugging Face diligence mirror.

Repositories to inspect

Active showcase:

• https://github.com/szl-holdings/a11oy
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/platform
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/ouroboros
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/lutar-lean
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/ouroboros-thesis
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/rosie
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/amaru
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/sentra
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/uds-mesh
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/vsp-otel
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/vessels
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/agi-forecast
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/szl-trust
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/szl-brand
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/szl-cookbook
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/.github

Excluded from active-demo claims until funded:

• https://github.com/szl-holdings/counsel
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/terra
• https://github.com/szl-holdings/carlota-jo

Canonical evidence to request

1. A11oy current README and docs/PROVENANCE.md.
2. A11oy docs/ecosystem-readiness-report.json.
3. A11oy GitHub Actions runs for Doctrine Build, Operational Validation, SBOM, CodeQL, and Hugging Face publish.
4. A11oy releases v1.0.1 and uds-v0.2.0.
5. Amaru, Sentra, Rosie, Vessels, and UDS Mesh UDS releases.
6. Thesis DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20434276.
7. Lean proof substrate DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20434308.
8. Hugging Face target https://huggingface.co/SZLHOLDINGS/a11oy-v19-substrate.
9. huggingface/DEMO_RECEIPT_SAMPLE.jsonl for a schema-aligned receipt-chain demo of evidence retrieval, policy blocking, unsupported-claim correction, and chain summary.
10. docs/SERIES_A_MARKET_EVIDENCE.md for external standards mapped to shipped artifacts and guarded production gaps.
11. docs/SUBSTRATE_REALITY_MAP.md for the screenshot substrate spine, four quadrants, anatomy map, GHAS posture, and SLSA/proof claims with evidence status labels.

Guardrails for the analyst

• Do not use KORA, LUMINA, PARAGON, or active Lyte framing.
• Do not report Counsel, Terra, or Carlota Jo as operational demo surfaces.
• Do not claim Defense Unicorns endorsement or UDS catalog acceptance.
• Do not claim every thesis statement is formally closed unless current lutar-lean CI and theorem reports prove that exact claim.
• Treat Hugging Face as a generated mirror; GitHub releases, CI, manifests, and DOI records are canonical. proof report verifies more.
• Treat A11oy main as seven live policy gate files plus ten theorem-runtime manifest entries; larger gate totals require merged PR evidence.
• Treat A11oy uds-v0.3.0 as SBOM-only and Vessels uds-v0.3.0 as empty until signed binary assets and/or GHCR package pushes are visible.

Suggested external prompt

Deeply validate the public SZL Holdings governed-AI substrate. Focus on the
GitHub repositories and releases listed below. Determine what is actually
implemented, what is packaged for UDS/Zarf, what has CI/release evidence, what
has formal-methods or DOI evidence, and what is explicitly roadmap or scaffold.
Do not use stale product names KORA, LUMINA, PARAGON, or Lyte. Exclude Counsel,
Terra, and Carlota Jo from active-demo claims until funded. Produce an
evidence-cited report with a claim/status table and links to exact GitHub files,
releases, workflows, DOI pages, and Hugging Face mirror files.