Publish first signed Site Registry catalog trust

README.md

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                                           public suffix: com
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-The repository contains the library, CLI, schemas, migrations, and synthetic
-fixtures. It does not contain a preapproved production dataset. A publisher must
-import source evidence, collect signed reviews, and distribute a signed registry
-generation.
+The repository contains the library, CLI, schemas, migrations, synthetic
+fixtures, and independently authenticated public trust roots. It does not place a
+mutable production database in Git. Publishers import source evidence, collect
+signed reviews, and distribute immutable signed registry generations. The first
+public catalog generation is available as a release asset; see
+[Public catalog](docs/PUBLIC_CATALOG.md).
 
 ## The basic idea
 

docs/CONSUMERS.md

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 ## Argand integration
 
 `UPSTREAM.json` records the original Argand extraction baseline and file hashes.
-The last recorded downstream integration replaced Argand's embedded crate with
-signed v0.3.0 revision `ac8282093d8a815c6227cff86e1f40714d510bcd` at Argand
-commit `d9dfd1585ce21d9c4136bcc24fa01fe3bfb8ed6e`.
+Argand pins signed v0.5.0 revision
+`3d3e08cdfd303df9fbd347a9bab2ba52ad575759`. The public beta uses Site Registry as
+Navigate's authoritative auto-route catalog. Its native `navigation-catalog/v2`
+file is only a collection- and content-policy-bound serving projection compiled
+from one exact registry generation; it is not a second independently curated
+destination catalog.
 
-Version 0.5 is handed off as a signed standalone revision. Argand should update its
-full Git `rev` in a separate coordinated source/build window, compare contract
-changes, and rerun navigation compiler, native resolver, API, abstention,
-revocation and clean-process gates. Changing the code dependency does not activate
-a registry generation or approve a public destination.
+Argand source commit `564ee5fc2fa0974a7b0557a914f274bbd4ab654c` records that boundary and the first
+public-beta activation. Changing the code dependency alone still does not activate
+a data generation or approve a destination. Every downstream must verify the
+signed generation, preserve abstentions, apply its own safety policy, and bind any
+serving projection to its own eligible corpus or directory policy.

docs/INDEX.md

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 - [Migrating to 0.4](MIGRATING-0.4.md): writer migration and trust transition.
 - [Source licenses](../crates/argand-site-registry/LICENSE_SOURCES.md): exact terms and attribution.
 - [Consumers](CONSUMERS.md): Rust, Python/CLI, data distribution and Argand transition.
+- [Public catalog](PUBLIC_CATALOG.md): download, independent trust roots, verification, scope and refresh contract.
 - [Trust](TRUST.md): enforced checks and publisher/consumer responsibilities.
 - [Publishing](PUBLISHING.md): reviewer keys, candidate acceptance and activation.
 - [Evaluation](EVALUATION.md): bounded JSONL judgments and result interpretation.

docs/PUBLIC_CATALOG.md

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+# Public signed catalog
+
+The v0.5.0 Forgejo release publishes the first immutable data generation that any
+Site Registry consumer can verify and resolve:
+
+- release: <https://git.argand.org/nicweyand/argand-site-registry/releases/tag/v0.5.0>
+- asset: `argand-site-registry-catalog-20260920-v1.tar.gz`
+- asset SHA-256:
+  `d878fa057397effa5dc729d2fa3a689c8edd1f4112ef1326dd6131b3fdeab63e`
+- generation pin:
+  `ede14746da8817aafdf705dd88cfeabbe8d23e1991e43a304acd8eca9249b18a`
+
+The release also carries a checksum file and an OpenSSH signature under namespace
+`argand-site-registry-release`. Verify it against
+[`trust/public-catalog-20260920/publisher-allowed-signers`](../trust/public-catalog-20260920/publisher-allowed-signers).
+The signed Git history is the independent channel for the trust root; do not learn
+the only trusted key from the archive it authenticates.
+
+```bash
+sha256sum --check argand-site-registry-catalog-20260920-v1.tar.gz.sha256
+ssh-keygen -Y verify \
+  -f trust/public-catalog-20260920/publisher-allowed-signers \
+  -I argand-site-registry-publisher-v1 \
+  -n argand-site-registry-release \
+  -s argand-site-registry-catalog-20260920-v1.tar.gz.sig \
+  < argand-site-registry-catalog-20260920-v1.tar.gz
+```
+
+After extraction, verify every member with `SHA256SUMS`, then authenticate the
+generation and exact reviewer trust root:
+
+```bash
+argand-site-registry activate \
+  --generation public-release-v0.5.0/catalog \
+  --current current.json \
+  --allowed-signers trust/public-catalog-20260920/publisher-allowed-signers \
+  --allowed-reviewers trust/public-catalog-20260920/reviewer-allowed-signers \
+  --identity argand-site-registry-publisher-v1
+
+argand-site-registry resolve \
+  --generation public-release-v0.5.0/catalog \
+  --pin ede14746da8817aafdf705dd88cfeabbe8d23e1991e43a304acd8eca9249b18a \
+  --query "yahoo mail"
+```
+
+## Scope and trust
+
+This first catalog is deliberately small. Its disclosed policy uses one automated
+evidence-gate reviewer group rather than claiming human-review quorum. Fresh exact
+endpoint observations are required, and source conflicts or dangerous drift need
+two groups, so the single automated reviewer must abstain on those risks. Sticky
+revocations and publisher/reviewer key separation remain enabled.
+
+Consumers decide whether this policy is appropriate for their use. Preserve typed
+abstentions, retain attribution, and apply independent malware and content policy.
+Do not route to the first raw lookup result. High-risk or disputed catalogs should
+use the unchanged two-human-reviewer reference policy.
+
+The generation's approvals expire. Installing an immutable archive is not a promise
+that every decision stays valid forever: use the resolver's requested time,
+consume cumulative signed revocation feeds when published, and move to a newly
+signed full generation before relying on renewed decisions.

trust/public-catalog-20260920/POLICY.md

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+# Argand automated high-confidence navigation policy
+
+This generation is a machine-reviewed public navigation directory. It does not
+claim two independent human reviewers. The dedicated reviewer identity approves
+only exact, unambiguous name and official-site assertions after source evidence
+and a fresh bounded endpoint observation are present.
+
+The policy keeps sticky revocations, requires separate reviewer and publisher
+keys, blocks source conflicts and dangerous drift, and gives those risk classes
+a two-group threshold that this automated identity cannot satisfy. Ambiguous,
+conflicting, stale, unobserved, expired, or revoked routes therefore abstain.
+
+Consumers choose whether to trust this publisher and policy. The stricter
+two-human-reviewer reference policy remains unchanged and available for
+high-risk, disputed, or manually governed catalogues.

trust/public-catalog-20260920/policy.json

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+{
+  "schema": "argand.site-policy/v1",
+  "name": "argand-automated-high-confidence-navigation-v1",
+  "names": { "approvals": 1, "groups": 1 },
+  "edges": { "approvals": 1, "groups": 1 },
+  "equivalences": { "approvals": 2, "groups": 2 },
+  "sticky_revocations": true,
+  "publisher_reviewer_separation": true,
+  "require_name_votes": true,
+  "allow_legacy_reviews": false,
+  "maximum_approval_days": 30,
+  "require_edge_observation": true,
+  "maximum_observation_age_days": 7,
+  "block_source_conflicts": true,
+  "block_dangerous_drift": true,
+  "reviewer_groups": {
+    "argand-evidence-gate-v1": "argand-automated-evidence"
+  },
+  "risk_thresholds": {
+    "source_conflict": { "approvals": 2, "groups": 2 },
+    "dangerous_drift": { "approvals": 2, "groups": 2 }
+  }
+}

trust/public-catalog-20260920/publisher-allowed-signers

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+argand-site-registry-publisher-v1 ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIGfQ/Nk4eQsi7rwhlS3K9/P6vZ+6IZZka2V62iUfKOlB argand site registry publisher 2026-09-20

trust/public-catalog-20260920/reviewer-allowed-signers

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+argand-evidence-gate-v1 ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAICT/p/gmy3xn+X9H34+aDxW3ss725jn1Ugr+k9dAPMju argand automated evidence reviewer 2026-09-20