INSTRUMENT 13 · CONFIGURATION ATTESTATION

Will this evidence still be defensible in fifteen years?

Record the exact configuration and human decision behind an AI-touched quality artefact. This is the gate record, not a product form — like an aircraft's black box, kept specifically for when something needs to be reconstructed later.

Example: in 2026 an AI tool helps review a supplier's material certificate, and a named engineer approves it. In 2031, an auditor asks which model version reviewed it, what instructions it was given, and who signed off. If that isn't recorded here at the time, there's no way to answer that question five years later — the record below is what lets you answer it.

ATTESTATION · EDITION 1.0

Application + version: —
Model + version identifier: —
Instruction version: —
Retrieval index state: —
Source documents + revisions: —
Human decision: —
Coverage statement: —

DURABILITY: DURABLE

AI-TOUCHED ARTEFACT · [application] · configuration [instruction version] · reviewed by [named human] · coverage: [coverage statement]

WHY THIS INSTRUMENT EXISTS

Model version, instructions, retrieval settings and rules are configuration, not implementation detail — an unannounced change to any of them can silently invalidate a qualification that was based on a different configuration entirely.

A gate pack that freezes and attests the exact configuration reviewed at approval is what makes a later comparison possible: without it, drift is undetectable until it produces a visible failure.