Trust

Trust starts with clear boundaries.

When you evaluate Hood, proposal, review, authorization and evidence are kept distinct. Authentication is not authority, and an agent cannot enlarge its own permissions.

Separated review roles
Hood test evidence and independent external assessments are identified separately so you can see what each result proves.
Evidence
HIOP is designed to preserve decision and outcome records at the action boundary. A chat transcript or checkbox alone is not execution evidence.
Current availability
HIOP is available for scoped evaluation. Production certification, live physical-control deployment and externally verified security assurance require their own completed gates.

External assurance: independent security review is required before Hood treats internal test evidence as external assurance.

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