What the manifest is
The Bathymark Trust Manifest is a deterministic JSON index for retrieval systems, researchers, journalists, and integrators. It names the canonical publisher, evidence rules, automation boundary, interpretation rules, and public record URLs. It contains no market feed and no personal data.
What the manifest is not
It is not an industry standard, security audit, legal opinion, quality certification, endorsement, or guarantee of accuracy. A manifest can make a publisher easier to inspect. It cannot replace checking the source receipt and the page-specific limitation.
What retrieval agents can use
Bathymark keeps its important conclusions in visible HTML with stable headings, native links, named controls, canonical URLs, source receipts, and matching structured data. Agents can traverse the sitemap index, inspect this manifest, or query the bounded public route catalog. That catalog returns public destinations, not private records or a raw market feed. Bathymark does not publish an action-agent card because it does not operate an A2A service.
How AI fits
Market calculations, score gates, taxonomies, source coverage, and longitudinal receipts are code-driven. Selected editorial surfaces may use bounded generative assistance from supplied facts, with source gates and deterministic fallback copy. A model response is never promoted into source evidence merely because it sounds confident.
How to challenge a reading
Open the evidence linked from the reading, preserve its observation time, then send the page URL, source URL, expected value, observed value, and timing through the contact route. Material corrections remain linked through the corrections policy and changelog.
Trust manifest reviewed 2026-07-12. Information, not financial advice.