Provenance & Confidence
Every assertion Vrtmv makes is traceable and graded. These two properties are what make the output audit-defensible.
Provenance
Every row in the Translation Index carries a provenance reference, and every provenance record points to a real, published source — a vendor packaging guideline, an upstream document, an FHS reference, or per-engagement evidence. Bulk imports from packaging guidelines qualify; rows that cannot point at a source do not exist.
Confidence, graded honestly
Translations are graded, and the grade is reported:
| Confidence | Meaning |
|---|---|
high | Vendor-documented or upstream-verified. |
medium | Holds consistently across a family or rebuild relationship, but not yet Vrtmv-validated. |
low | An educated guess. |
untested | The default for any cross-family translation not yet exercised. |
By default the client suppresses untested rows from findings (--include-untested=false). You opt in explicitly when you want to see them.
Why this matters
The alternative — inferred or "this probably works" mappings presented as fact — produces findings worse than no findings, because they carry unearned authority into an audit. Vrtmv's curation discipline forbids creating a rule without verifiable vendor evidence, and grades everything else honestly so a reader always knows how much weight a row can bear.