acb-validate

Validate ACB budget and settlement entries, audit settlement arithmetic against deliberation records, and re-price deliberations against a posted budget.

Install

npm install -g @ai-manifests/acb-validate

Usage

Validate ACB entries

acb-validate ./budget-committed.json
acb-validate ./settlement-recorded.json
acb-validate ./budget.json ./cancel.json ./settlement.json

Validate a complete budget record

Pass a directory containing the ACB entries (budget_committed, optionally budget_cancelled, settlement_recorded) and the related ADJ entries (deliberation_opened, deliberation_closed, outcome_observed) to check cross-entry consistency:

acb-validate --record ./deliberation/

Cross-entry checks:

• budget_id matches between budget_committed and settlement_recorded
• amount_total matches between budget and settlement
• budget_committed.timestamp ≤ settlement_recorded.timestamp
• deliberation_id matches across all entries
• disagreement_magnitude_initial in settlement is consistent with deliberation_closed.final_tally
• Epistemic distributions only target agents declared in deliberation_opened.participants
• A budget cannot be both cancelled and settled

Re-price a deliberation

Verify the draw computation against a budget and a deliberation result:

acb-validate --price ./budget.json ./deliberation-closed.json

Reports cheap-routine and expensive-routine draws, the unlock signal computed from the tally, and the routine the budget would select. Useful for sanity-checking settlement arithmetic when no settlement entry exists yet.

Semantic Checks

Check	Type
substrate_share + epistemic_share = 1.0	Error
round_multiplier >= 1	Error
posted_at <= timestamp	Error
amount_total > 0	Error
amount_returned_to_requester = amount_total − draw_total	Error
sum(distributions) = draw_total	Error
contribution_breakdown sums to amount per agent	Error
habit_discount_applied in [0, 1]	Error
expensive_routine_rate >= cheap_routine_rate	Warning
unlock_threshold is 0 or 1 (degenerate)	Warning
habit_discount_applied > 0.80 (default-v0 cap)	Warning
unlock_triggered inconsistent with disagreement magnitude	Warning
mode = deferred without outcome_window_seconds	Warning
Settlement targets agent not in deliberation participants	Warning

Programmatic Use

import {
  validateEntry,
  validateBudgetRecord,
  computeDisagreementMagnitude,
  computeCheapDraw,
  computeExpensiveDraw,
  selectRoutine,
} from '@ai-manifests/acb-validate';

const result = validateEntry(budgetEntry);
const recordResult = validateBudgetRecord(allEntries);

const magnitude = computeDisagreementMagnitude({
  approve_weight: 0.71,
  reject_weight: 0.64,
  abstain_weight: 0.18,
});

const draw = computeExpensiveDraw(
  { expensive_routine_rate: 200, round_multiplier: 1.5 },
  3,    // participants
  1,    // rounds
  0.80  // habit discount
);

const routine = selectRoutine(budget, initialTally, roundCount, termination);

How It Composes

acb-validate extends the same envelope adj-validate validates against. ACB entries (budget_committed, budget_cancelled, settlement_recorded) live in the same journal as ADJ entries (deliberation_opened, proposal_emitted, round_event, deliberation_closed, outcome_observed) and inherit the same hash chaining, append-only guarantees, and replay verification.

Run both validators against a journal directory for full coverage:

adj-validate --deliberation ./journal/
acb-validate --record ./journal/

Status

v0.1 — Validates against ACB spec v0 (draft, pre-implementation).

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE for the full license text and NOTICE for attribution.