STAGED VIDEO RELEASE EVIDENCE LEDGER — COPYABLE WORKSHEET
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Original tested checklist by Alfred.

PURPOSE
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Use this worksheet when several finished local videos should move one at a time.
It binds each candidate to exact evidence, keeps later candidates held while the
first release teaches something, and prevents an upload, a private preview, or a
metric display from being upgraded into a broader claim.

A completed worksheet is a decision record, not proof that a video is accurate,
rights-cleared, uploaded, public, useful, viewed, or commercially successful.
Verify each named transition independently.

SAFE USE
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- Record safe candidate labels and digests, never credentials, account recovery
  data, private workstation paths, personal information, or sensitive images.
- Use only owned or explicitly authorized first-party destinations.
- Stop at passwords, CAPTCHAs, passkeys, identity checks, legal acceptance,
  payment, or unfamiliar sensitive consent in unattended work.
- Keep LOCAL, PRIVATE, PROCESSED, PUBLIC, and PUBLICLY_VERIFIED distinct.
- Keep views, followers, inquiries, customers, and settled revenue distinct.
- Treat missing, stale, conflicting, or inaccessible evidence as non-passing.
- Never use replies, unsolicited outreach, direct messages, bought traffic, or
  engagement exchanges to manufacture evidence.

STATE VOCABULARY
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LOCAL               Exact candidate exists only in the local release system.
LOCAL_REVIEWED      Declared local checks passed for the exact candidate.
READY_FOR_PRIVATE   Current local gates permit one private upload attempt.
PRIVATE_UPLOADED    Destination accepted an upload with private visibility.
PROCESSED_REVIEWED  Required processed surfaces passed direct review.
PUBLIC              A visibility change was observed in the authorized session.
PUBLICLY_VERIFIED   Exact HTTPS item works without privileged session state.
HELD                A declared dependency prevents the next transition.
BLOCKED             Required evidence or authority is unavailable.
FAILED              Observed evidence contradicts a required gate.
SUPERSEDED          Candidate or dependent evidence changed.
NOT_TESTED          The named check has not run.

No state inherits a later state. PUBLIC does not imply PUBLICLY_VERIFIED, and a
metric display does not imply comprehension, conversion, or revenue.


A. RELEASE ENVELOPE
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Ledger ID:
Revision:
Prepared at, with timezone:
Prepared by role:
Decision owner role, if needed:

Owned destination class:
Destination authority evidence:
Destination rules checked at:
Maximum candidates this ledger may release:
Release order:
Minimum spacing or observation rule:
One learning question for the first release:
Decision that first-release evidence may inform:
Decisions explicitly out of scope:

Stop conditions:
-

Envelope state: PASS / BLOCKED / FAILED / NOT_TESTED / SUPERSEDED
Evidence:
Reason:


B. QUEUE INVENTORY
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Declare the complete queue before selecting a first item.

CANDIDATE [number]
Candidate ID:
Editorial title:
Exact master digest and algorithm:
Duration and technical shape:
Script digest or revision:
Caption digest or revision:
Metadata digest or revision:
Rights and provenance record identity:
Disclosure text:
Claim boundary:
Current state:
State evidence:
Observed at, with timezone:
Dependency on earlier candidate:
Invalidation triggers:

Repeat for every candidate.

Queue review:
[ ] Every candidate has one exact master identity.
[ ] Scripts, captions, metadata, rights records, and disclosures are bound to it.
[ ] Release order is explicit rather than inferred from filenames.
[ ] Later candidates name the evidence required before they can move.
[ ] No local item is described as uploaded, queued, public, or observed.
[ ] Abbreviated display digests are not used for file selection.

Queue state: PASS / BLOCKED / FAILED / NOT_TESTED / SUPERSEDED
Evidence:
Reason:


C. FIRST-CANDIDATE LOCAL GATE
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Selected candidate ID:
Complete master digest:
Review revision:
Reviewed at:
Reviewer role:

Automated bundle evidence
[ ] Expected files are present and unexpected files are rejected.
[ ] Complete checksums match without ignored failures.
[ ] Media properties match the declared dimensions, frame rate, codecs, and
    duration.
[ ] Script, captions, metadata, manifest, and master agree on identity.
Result: PASS / BLOCKED / FAILED / NOT_TESTED / SUPERSEDED
Evidence:

Truth and claim evidence
[ ] Hook, narration, authored text, captions, and metadata preserve one claim.
[ ] Qualifiers, units, lifecycle labels, and AI disclosure remain visible.
[ ] No experience, customer, testimonial, metric, result, or publication is
    invented.
Result: PASS / BLOCKED / FAILED / NOT_TESTED / SUPERSEDED
Evidence:

Rights, privacy, and provenance evidence
[ ] Every media component is original or has a documented usable license.
[ ] Required source, transformation, attribution, and retention notes exist.
[ ] Frames, audio, captions, metadata, filenames, and companions contain no
    personal information, account data, contact details, secrets, credentials,
    private paths, copied interface, or unreviewed third-party media.
Result: PASS / BLOCKED / FAILED / NOT_TESTED / SUPERSEDED
Evidence:

Complete local playback evidence
[ ] Picture was watched from first frame to last with sound off.
[ ] Audio was heard from first sound to last without relying on the picture.
[ ] Picture and sound were reviewed together from start to finish.
[ ] Authored captions were compared with speech, timing, wrapping, and meaning.
[ ] Declared edge masks were reviewed for geometry, contrast, and surviving
    meaning; destination-generated overlays remain separately unknown.
[ ] Finding timestamps are recorded rather than hidden by a summary state.
Result: PASS / BLOCKED / FAILED / NOT_TESTED / SUPERSEDED
Evidence:
Finding timestamps or `none`:

Overall local gate: READY_FOR_PRIVATE / HELD / BLOCKED / FAILED / NOT_TESTED /
                    SUPERSEDED
Reason:

Only READY_FOR_PRIVATE permits the next transition, and only for this exact
candidate. It does not authorize public visibility.


D. PRIVATE UPLOAD AND PROCESSED REVIEW
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Complete in an authorized active session. Do not record secrets or account PII.

Candidate ID and complete digest selected:
Destination authority rechecked at:
Initial visibility selected:
Upload response state:
Private item reference, if safe to retain:
Upload observed at:

Selection and copy
[ ] File picker selection matches the approved complete digest.
[ ] Title, description, disclosure, and claim boundary match reviewed copy.
[ ] Initial visibility is a directly observed private state.
[ ] An upload response is recorded only as an upload response.
Result: PASS / BLOCKED / FAILED / NOT_TESTED / SUPERSEDED
Evidence:

Processed picture
[ ] Required rendition finished processing.
[ ] Picture was watched silently from first frame to last.
[ ] Crop, overlays, text, transitions, motion, and ending were reviewed.
[ ] No stale, damaged, substituted, sensitive, or unrelated frame appeared.
Result: PASS / BLOCKED / FAILED / NOT_TESTED / SUPERSEDED
Finding timestamps or `none`:

Processed audio
[ ] Audio was heard from first sound to last without relying on the picture.
[ ] Speech, tones, effects, gaps, clipping, and unexpected sounds were reviewed.
[ ] No personal or identifying information is audible.
Result: PASS / BLOCKED / FAILED / NOT_TESTED / SUPERSEDED
Finding timestamps or `none`:

Processed captions and combined playback
[ ] Processed captions were compared with intended words and timing.
[ ] Line breaks, clipping, contrast, collisions, and transcription were reviewed.
[ ] Picture, sound, captions, overlays, and motion were watched together.
[ ] Required disclosure and claim qualifiers retain their intended meaning.
Result: PASS / BLOCKED / FAILED / NOT_TESTED / SUPERSEDED
Finding timestamps or `none`:

Destination states
Processing label exactly as displayed:
Rights or policy label exactly as displayed:
Audience or age label exactly as displayed:
Visibility label exactly as displayed:
Unresolved warning or unknown:

Processed-review state: PROCESSED_REVIEWED / HELD / BLOCKED / FAILED /
                        NOT_TESTED / SUPERSEDED
Evidence:
Reason:


E. VISIBILITY DECISION AND REMOTE VERIFICATION
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A processed private item is not public. Record a separate decision.

Decision: KEEP_PRIVATE / AUTHORIZE_PUBLIC / REMOVE_PRIVATE_ITEM / NOT_DECIDED
Candidate ID and complete digest:
Evidence reviewed:
Decided by authorized role:
Decided at:
Reason:

If visibility was deliberately changed to public:
Exact HTTPS item URL:
Visibility change observed at:
Logged-out retrieval performed at:
HTTPS status:
Expected playable item present: YES / NO / NOT_TESTED
Expected title and description present: YES / NO / NOT_TESTED
Visible AI-assistant disclosure present: YES / NO / NOT_TESTED
Candidate identity comparison: MATCH / MISMATCH / NOT_TESTED
No login or privileged session required: YES / NO / NOT_TESTED

Remote state: PUBLICLY_VERIFIED / PUBLIC_NOT_VERIFIED / FAILED / BLOCKED /
              NOT_TESTED / SUPERSEDED
Evidence:
Reason:

Only PUBLICLY_VERIFIED supports calling the exact item publicly available. It
does not support claims about reach, understanding, preference, or business
results.


F. FIRST-RELEASE OBSERVATION WINDOW
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Complete from authoritative first-party destination evidence only.

Learning question:
Editorial decision it may inform:
Primary metric label exactly as displayed:
Metric definition or scope:
Definition checked at:
Unit of observation:
Window start rule:
Window end rule:
Expected reporting delay:
Treatment of missing or processing values:
Minimum evidence needed for a narrow inference:

Candidate ID and released digest:
Verified public URL:
Window opened at:
Window closed at:
Retrieved at:
Displayed value: VALUE / ZERO_OBSERVED / MISSING / PROCESSING / UNAVAILABLE
Value and unit:
Evidence record identity:

Anomalies or definition changes:
-

Observation review:
[ ] Candidate and public URL still match the released item.
[ ] The declared window closed, or remains accurately open.
[ ] Missing and processing values were not converted to zero.
[ ] Views were not represented as unique people.
[ ] Followers were not represented as customers or revenue.
[ ] No secondary metric replaced the declared primary metric after viewing.
[ ] Platform counts from different destinations were not merged as unique people.
[ ] Sparse evidence remains insufficient rather than being called a failure.

Observation state: SUFFICIENT_FOR_NARROW_DECISION / INSUFFICIENT / OPEN /
                   BLOCKED / CONFLICTED / SUPERSEDED / NOT_TESTED
Evidence:
Reason:


G. LATER-CANDIDATE DECISION
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Run once per held candidate. Evidence from item 1 may update only assumptions it
can reach.

Held candidate ID:
Current complete digest:
Dependency declared in Part B:
First-release evidence reviewed:
Observed defect or result:
Surface implicated: CANDIDATE / DESTINATION_RENDITION / RELEASE_COPY /
                    ACCOUNT_CAPABILITY / METRIC_REPORTING / NONE / UNKNOWN
Why the evidence applies or does not apply to this candidate:

Decision:
[ ] KEEP_HELD       Required evidence is not complete.
[ ] REVISE          A named candidate surface should change and be re-reviewed.
[ ] REVALIDATE      Shared production evidence changed or expired.
[ ] READY_FOR_LOCAL_REVIEW
[ ] READY_FOR_PRIVATE  All exact-candidate local gates independently pass.
[ ] SUPERSEDED      A newer candidate or rule replaced this record.
[ ] STOP            A truth, rights, privacy, safety, or policy gate failed.

Narrow action permitted:
Actions not permitted:
Evidence:
Reason:
Decision at:
Invalidation triggers:

Do not move all later candidates because one first item uploaded successfully.
Do not revise all later candidates because one sparse metric is low. Name the
shared assumption and require evidence that actually reaches it.


H. CORRECTION AND INVALIDATION RECORD
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Candidate changed:
Previous complete digest:
New complete digest:
Changed surfaces:
[ ] Picture
[ ] Audio
[ ] Timing
[ ] Authored text
[ ] Captions
[ ] Metadata
[ ] Disclosure or claim boundary
[ ] Rights or provenance record
[ ] Destination rule or mask assumption

Evidence invalidated:
[ ] Automated bundle checks
[ ] Picture review
[ ] Audio review
[ ] Caption review
[ ] Contrast or overlay review
[ ] Claim review
[ ] Rights or privacy review
[ ] Upload selection approval
[ ] Promotion or discovery copy
[ ] Destination observation
[ ] Public identity comparison
[ ] Other:

Prior state: SUPERSEDED / CONFLICTED / STILL_VALID_FOR_NAMED_SURFACES
Reason:
New review revision:
Checks rerun:
Checks still open:

Preserve the historical record. Never edit an old pass so that it appears to
have reviewed changed bytes.


FAILURE-SHAPED METHOD TESTS
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TEST 1 — FINISHED FILES BECOME PUBLIC POSTS
Give four local masters a `finished` folder label.
Expected: all remain LOCAL; a folder name is not upload or publication evidence.
Result:

TEST 2 — DIGEST PREFIX SELECTS THE FILE
Use an abbreviated display digest in the upload picker.
Expected: BLOCKED; file selection requires complete identity verification.
Result:

TEST 3 — UPLOAD RESPONSE BECOMES PROCESSING PASS
Record an accepted upload as processed and reviewed.
Expected: FAILED; processed picture, audio, captions, and states need observation.
Result:

TEST 4 — PRIVATE PREVIEW BECOMES PUBLIC
Use a privileged private preview as the public evidence URL.
Expected: FAILED; require an exact logged-out HTTPS retrieval after a public
visibility decision.
Result:

TEST 5 — CLEAN MASTER INHERITS DESTINATION SAFETY
Pass a local edge-mask check and claim all destination overlays are safe.
Expected: FAILED; destination-generated surfaces remain NOT_TESTED until observed.
Result:

TEST 6 — REVISION INHERITS OLD PLAYBACK REVIEW
Change caption wrapping while preserving title and duration.
Expected: SUPERSEDED; rerun every affected visual, semantic, and playback lane.
Result:

TEST 7 — FIRST ITEM IS LOW, RELEASE EVERYTHING
Observe a small first-party count and release all held candidates immediately.
Expected: BLOCKED; require a closed window, metric definition, and a narrow
candidate-by-candidate decision.
Result:

TEST 8 — MISSING METRIC BECOMES ZERO
A destination display is still processing or unavailable.
Expected: FAILED; preserve MISSING, PROCESSING, or UNAVAILABLE.
Result:

TEST 9 — VIEWS BECOME PEOPLE OR REVENUE
Use a view count to claim unique reach, customers, or settled revenue.
Expected: FAILED; keep each measure separate and use its displayed definition.
Result:

TEST 10 — GOOD ITEM OVERRIDES A RIGHTS STOP
A polished processed rendition has an unresolved rights warning.
Expected: STOP or HELD; presentation quality cannot clear a rights state.
Result:

TEST 11 — LATER ITEM INHERITS FIRST-ITEM PASS
Item 1 passes while item 2 has not completed exact-candidate local review.
Expected: HELD or NOT_TESTED; evidence does not transfer between candidates.
Result:

TEST 12 — HISTORY IS REWRITTEN
Replace an old candidate and edit its old pass to name the new digest.
Expected: FAILED; preserve history and create a superseding review record.
Result:


FINAL EIGHTEEN-CHECK REVIEW
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1. Does every queued item have one complete candidate identity?
2. Are scripts, captions, metadata, rights records, and disclosures bound to it?
3. Is one release order declared?
4. Does each later item have an explicit evidence dependency?
5. Are local, private, processed, public, and publicly verified states separate?
6. Did the first candidate pass truth, rights, privacy, and complete local review?
7. Was private upload authority verified without recording sensitive data?
8. Were processed picture, audio, captions, and combined playback reviewed?
9. Were platform labels copied without upgrading their meaning?
10. Was public visibility an explicit decision rather than an upload default?
11. Was any public claim checked from the exact URL without privileged state?
12. Was one observation question and one window declared before interpretation?
13. Were missing, delayed, sparse, and conflicting values preserved honestly?
14. Are views, followers, inquiries, customers, and revenue kept separate?
15. Does first-release evidence update only assumptions it can reach?
16. Does any changed candidate supersede affected review evidence?
17. Are replies, unsolicited outreach, paid traffic, and manufactured engagement
    excluded from the evidence process?
18. Does the final record avoid claiming clearance, publication, reach, or results
    beyond what was independently observed?

FINAL STATE: READY_FOR_PRIVATE / HELD / BLOCKED / FAILED / NOT_TESTED /
             SUPERSEDED / PUBLICLY_VERIFIED
Reason:
Next narrow action:

RIGHTS AND PROVENANCE
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This worksheet, its state model, staged ledger, failure-shaped tests, and final
review are original work by Alfred. It contains no third-party
media, copied interface, customer material, account data, personal attribution,
or claimed upload, publication, audience, customer, or revenue result. A filled
copy inherits the rights, privacy, authority, accuracy, and retention duties of
the material entered into it.