{
  "artifact": "White Noise Public Service-Level Dependency Source Record Gate",
  "date": "2026-06-29",
  "public_route": "wn-service-level-dependency-source-record-gate.html",
  "markdown_source": "white-noise-public-service-level-dependency-source-record-gate.md",
  "prepared_from": "current public-site materials, dependency register, public source-record queue, and local service-level evidence gaps only",
  "use_boundary": "This gate is a public board-readiness artifact only. It is not a vendor audit, not a procurement policy, not SOC 2 or ISO 27001 evidence, not PCI evidence, not legal advice, not a data-processing agreement, not a service-level agreement, and not proof that completed vendor security review, procurement readiness, continuity testing, or audited dependency controls exist.",
  "board_rule": "Do not publish warmer vendor maturity, procurement readiness, service-level assurance, SOC 2 or ISO evidence, PCI, continuity, uptime, CRM, security, privacy, AI-provider, publishing-platform, account-system, Exchange, custody, or dependency-control language until service-level dependency records pass this gate and the public claim boundary is reviewed.",
  "current_status": "pending_source_evidence",
  "source_record_priority": 7,
  "companion_tools": [
    {
      "path": "tools/check_service_level_dependency_source_record_gate.js",
      "purpose": "Validate that the public gate, source files, image provenance, dependency register links, priority queue links, and manifest references preserve the service-level dependency acceptance boundary."
    }
  ],
  "blocked_public_claims": [
    "vendor maturity",
    "procurement readiness",
    "service-level assurance",
    "SOC 2 or ISO evidence",
    "audited dependency controls",
    "completed vendor security review",
    "service continuity readiness",
    "enterprise vendor-management maturity"
  ],
  "required_source_inputs": [
    {
      "field": "service_name",
      "minimum": "Service, vendor, platform, or dependency name retained privately with public class name when vendor identification is not cleared.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not publish vendor names, contract details, account IDs, endpoint URLs, or private admin surfaces unless separately reviewed."
    },
    {
      "field": "business_purpose",
      "minimum": "Clear business use, product surface, owner need, and whether the service is production, demo, publishing, payment, AI, analytics, account, or Exchange-adjacent.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not turn dependency availability into proof of production workflow maturity."
    },
    {
      "field": "data_or_asset_class",
      "minimum": "Data, asset, credential, payment, customer, generated-output, publishing, account, or operational classes handled by the service.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not disclose sensitive data classes, credentials, private records, customer identifiers, or security architecture details."
    },
    {
      "field": "access_owner",
      "minimum": "Owner role, admin access holder class, credential-storage rule, access-review state, and emergency access or escalation route.",
      "public_boundary": "Owner role may be public; named admins, credentials, private access paths, and security details stay private."
    },
    {
      "field": "terms_source",
      "minimum": "Terms, contract, DPA, acceptable-use, privacy, payment, AI-provider, or marketplace policy source and review date where relevant.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not imply legal review, signed enterprise terms, DPA completion, or compliance acceptance unless those records exist."
    },
    {
      "field": "continuity_and_offboarding",
      "minimum": "Continuity plan, backup/export rule, offboarding route, failure mode, replacement path, and customer or public impact if the service fails.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not claim disaster recovery, SLA, uptime, support, escrow, or continuity readiness without tested records."
    },
    {
      "field": "security_relevance",
      "minimum": "Security, privacy, compliance, payment, AI, source-rights, customer-evidence, or operational risk relevance and unresolved gap list.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not publish security-control claims, certification claims, vendor-risk ratings, or audit conclusions without formal evidence."
    },
    {
      "field": "claim_boundary",
      "minimum": "Allowed public summary, blocked claim family, required companion source records, unresolved gaps, and stronger-use trigger.",
      "public_boundary": "Every public dependency statement must map to the exact service class, evidence level, owner review, and unresolved gaps."
    },
    {
      "field": "review_trigger",
      "minimum": "Review date, next review trigger, event triggers, reviewer role, unresolved gaps, and accepted or rejected public summary.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not imply continuous monitoring, staffed vendor management, or recurring review operations unless separately source-backed."
    }
  ],
  "acceptance_gates": [
    {
      "gate": "source_presence",
      "pass_condition": "Service name or class, business purpose, data or asset class, access owner, terms source, continuity/offboarding state, security relevance, claim boundary, and review trigger exist for the same dated review window.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_missing_source"
    },
    {
      "gate": "service_identity_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Public summary separates private service identity from cleared public dependency class and excludes account IDs, URLs, credentials, and admin surfaces.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_service_identity_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "data_class_alignment",
      "pass_condition": "Data or asset classes are specific enough for risk review and do not expose sensitive records or imply broader data handling than the source supports.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_data_class_mismatch"
    },
    {
      "gate": "access_owner_review",
      "pass_condition": "Owner role, credential-storage rule, admin-review state, and escalation route are reviewed without publishing secrets or private access details.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_access_owner_review_missing"
    },
    {
      "gate": "terms_review_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Terms, contract, DPA, acceptable-use, privacy, payment, AI-provider, or marketplace review state is stated without implying legal acceptance where it does not exist.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_terms_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "continuity_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Continuity and offboarding plan separates planned, untested, tested, and unavailable states without implying uptime, SLA, or disaster recovery proof.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_continuity_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "security_relevance_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Security relevance and unresolved gaps are named without asserting certification, completed vendor review, control effectiveness, or audit findings.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_security_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "claim_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Public summary maps each supported claim to service class, owner review, source window, terms state, continuity state, unresolved gaps, and stronger-use trigger.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_claim_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "review_trigger",
      "pass_condition": "Review date, reviewer role, event triggers, next review trigger, and accepted or rejected public summary are recorded.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_review_trigger_missing"
    }
  ],
  "status_labels": [
    "pending_source_evidence",
    "ready_for_private_review",
    "rejected_needs_rework",
    "accepted_for_bounded_public_summary"
  ],
  "public_summary_allowed_when_accepted": [
    "dated review window",
    "dependency class",
    "service business purpose class",
    "data or asset class summary",
    "owner role and review date",
    "terms-source review state",
    "continuity/offboarding state",
    "security relevance summary",
    "unresolved gap summary",
    "next review trigger",
    "bounded claim boundary"
  ],
  "public_summary_disallowed": [
    "vendor names unless cleared",
    "account IDs, endpoint URLs, credentials, or admin paths",
    "private contract terms or private DPA details",
    "customer records, payment records, personal data, or confidential data classes",
    "security architecture details that increase risk",
    "SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, or audit claims unless formal evidence exists",
    "completed vendor security review unless source-backed",
    "uptime, SLA, disaster recovery, or continuity claims unless tested records exist",
    "production CRM, analytics, AI-provider, payment, account, publishing, Exchange, custody, or marketplace maturity claims unless companion source records pass",
    "legal advice or legal-reviewed procurement packet implications",
    "formal financing process implication",
    "claims about speculative White Noise technologies being commercially deployed"
  ],
  "companion_controls": [
    "wn-dependency-register.html",
    "white-noise-public-third-party-dependency-baseline.md",
    "wn-enterprise-procurement-readiness.html",
    "wn-security-data-baseline.html",
    "wn-source-rights-register.html",
    "wn-source-record-priority-queue.html",
    "wn-source-record-acceptance-standard.html",
    "wn-risk-register.html",
    "wn-review-calendar.html"
  ],
  "image_asset": {
    "path": "assets/governance/white-noise-service-level-dependency-source-record-gate-20260629.png",
    "provenance": "assets/governance/white-noise-service-level-dependency-source-record-gate-20260629.provenance.json",
    "alt_text": "AI-generated White Noise service-level dependency source-record gate with abstract service cards, access-owner markers, terms-source panels, continuity routes, security relevance indicators, and review-trigger gates",
    "usage_boundary": "GPT-generated conceptual/editorial service-level dependency gate image only; not proof of completed vendor review, procurement readiness, service-level assurance, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 evidence, PCI evidence, legal review, signed vendor terms, continuity testing, access review, security controls, production CRM, audited dependency controls, formal financing process, live dataroom, operational speculative technology, trained W.N. image model, or web-scale source ingestion."
  }
}