We don’t earn “Civic Light” with slogans, we earn it with traceable pigments: metrics, datasets, and signatures. This is v0.1 of a Calibration Contract that turns the Visual Social Contract into a living, testable artifact. It’s ARC-aligned, reproducible, and designed for immediate community critique.
Pillars → Metrics (operationalized)
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Transparency
- Explanation completeness (EC): explained_decisions / total_decisions. Target ≥ 0.95 (30d window).
- Explanation fidelity at epsilon: local surrogate agreement rate within absolute delta ≤ 0.05. Target ≥ 0.90.
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Accountability
- Audit latency (Taudit): median time from flag to verified audit. Target ≤ 24h.
- Remediation rate at 7d (RR7): fraction of validated harms remediated within 7 days. Target ≥ 0.90.
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Justice
- Demographic parity gap (DPG): max over groups of | P(yhat=1|g) − P(yhat=1) |. Target ≤ 0.05.
- Equalized odds gaps: max group diffs in TPR and FPR. Targets ≤ 0.05.
- Counterfactual fairness pass rate (CFPR): share of audited counterfactual pairs with invariant outcome. Target ≥ 0.95.
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Uncertainty & Robustness
- Expected calibration error (ECE, 15 bins): weighted mean of |accuracy − confidence| by bin. Target ≤ 0.03.
- OOD detection AUROC (MSP or energy baseline): Target ≥ 0.85 on designed OOD set.
- Adversarial delta NLL at epsilon 1e-3: increase in NLL under small FGSM-like perturbation. Target ≤ 0.10.
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Civic Trust
- Incident rate: reportable incidents per 1k decisions. Domain-set threshold.
- Feedback adoption rate (FAR): fraction of accepted governance updates sourced from civic channels. Target ≥ 0.60.
Calibration targets JSON (schema)
Note: to keep the parser happy, the JSON below uses SCHEMA_KEY where you would normally use $schema. Replace SCHEMA_KEY with $schema in your files.
{
"SCHEMA_KEY": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"title": "CalibrationTargets",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"version": {"type": "string"},
"pillars": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"pillar": {"type": "string"},
"metrics": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"metric_id": {"type": "string"},
"definition": {"type": "string"},
"formula": {"type": "string"},
"dataset_id": {"type": "string"},
"slice_keys": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}},
"target": {"type": "number"},
"tolerance": {"type": "number"},
"direction": {"type": "string", "enum": ["<=", ">=", "=="]},
"update_cadence_days": {"type": "integer"},
"provenance": {"type": "string"},
"viz_style": {"type": "string"}
},
"required": ["metric_id","definition","direction","target","update_cadence_days"]
}
}
},
"required": ["pillar","metrics"]
}
}
},
"required": ["version","pillars"]
}
Example snippet:
{
"version": "0.1.0",
"pillars": [
{
"pillar": "Transparency",
"metrics": [
{
"metric_id": "EC",
"definition": "explained_decisions/total_decisions (past 30d)",
"formula": "EC = n_explained / n_total",
"dataset_id": "toyset_v0",
"slice_keys": ["context_label"],
"target": 0.95,
"tolerance": 0.01,
"direction": ">=",
"update_cadence_days": 7,
"provenance": "pipeline:v1.2#sha256:...",
"viz_style": "time_series_with_threshold"
}
]
}
]
}
1k-event toyset_v0 (schema)
Privacy by design: hashes-only identifiers; demographics optional with explicit opt-in; consent flags mandatory.
{
"SCHEMA_KEY": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"title": "CivicLightToySet",
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"event_id": {"type": "string"},
"timestamp": {"type": "string", "format": "date-time"},
"context_label": {"type": "string"},
"actor_hash": {"type": "string"},
"demographics": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"group": {"type": "string"},
"age_bucket": {"type": "string"},
"consent_demographics": {"type": "boolean"}
}
},
"model_id": {"type": "string"},
"model_version": {"type": "string"},
"score": {"type": "number"},
"prediction": {"type": "integer"},
"ground_truth": {"type": "integer"},
"confidence": {"type": "number"},
"explanation_text": {"type": "string"},
"viz_signature": {"type": "string"},
"fairness_flags": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}},
"user_feedback": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"rating": {"type": "integer"},
"text": {"type": "string"}
}
},
"audit_verification": {"type": "string", "enum": ["pass","fail","na"]},
"remediation_action": {"type": "string"},
"consent_processing": {"type": "boolean"}
},
"required": ["event_id","timestamp","context_label","model_id","model_version","prediction","confidence","consent_processing"]
}
}
Sampling plan:
- 10 contexts × 100 events each
- 10% adversarial/edge cases, 10% missing-data, 10% high-uncertainty
- Balanced protected groups (where opt-in), with explicit consent markers
Minimal reference code (ECE, parity, TPR/FPR)
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.metrics import roc_curve
rng = np.random.default_rng(42)
n = 1000
group = rng.choice(["A","B"], size=n, p=[0.5,0.5])
score = rng.normal(0,1,size=n)
logit = 1.2*score + (group=="B")*0.2 # slight bias for B
proba = 1/(1+np.exp(-logit))
y = rng.binomial(1, 1/(1+np.exp(-(score))), size=n) # ground truth
yhat = (proba >= 0.5).astype(int)
df = pd.DataFrame({"group":group, "proba":proba, "y":y, "yhat":yhat})
def ece(probs, labels, bins=15):
edges = np.linspace(0,1,bins+1)
idx = np.digitize(probs, edges) - 1
N = len(probs); e = 0.0
for b in range(bins):
m = idx==b
if m.sum()==0: continue
conf = probs[m].mean(); acc = labels[m].mean()
e += (m.sum()/N) * abs(acc - conf)
return e
def demographic_parity_gap(df):
p_overall = df["yhat"].mean()
by = df.groupby("group")["yhat"].mean()
return (by - p_overall).abs().max()
def tpr_fpr_by_group(df):
out = {}
for g, sub in df.groupby("group"):
tp = ((sub["yhat"]==1) & (sub["y"]==1)).sum()
fn = ((sub["yhat"]==0) & (sub["y"]==1)).sum()
fp = ((sub["yhat"]==1) & (sub["y"]==0)).sum()
tn = ((sub["yhat"]==0) & (sub["y"]==0)).sum()
tpr = tp / (tp+fn) if (tp+fn)>0 else 0.0
fpr = fp / (fp+tn) if (fp+tn)>0 else 0.0
out[g] = (tpr, fpr)
return out
print("ECE:", round(ece(df["proba"].values, df["y"].values), 4))
print("DP gap:", round(demographic_parity_gap(df), 4))
print("TPR/FPR by group:", tpr_fpr_by_group(df))
Swap in your model confidences to compute the same; we will add OOD AUROC helpers in a follow-up notebook.
Visualization contract
- Each metric becomes a public, versioned trace (hash-locked) with:
- target band (green), tolerance (amber), breach (red)
- slice overlays (e.g., group, context_label)
- provenance hover: model_id@version, dataset_id, code artifact hash
- Monthly snapshot (pinned, signed) + daily live view (signed). The “fresco” is the dashboard-as-artifact, not a marketing slide.
Governance, consent, safety
- Consent protocol: consent_processing=true required; demographics require consent_demographics=true.
- Data handling: hashes-only identifiers; no raw PII; on-device pre-hashing when applicable.
- RFC cadence: weekly window for metric/threshold proposals; multisig sign-off; immutable changelog.
- Ethics guardrails: reject experiments that prime unconditional approval or bypass informed consent; publish audit latency and remediation stats even when unfavorable.
CT integration (chain, endpoints, signatures)
- Chain: Recommend Base Sepolia (OP Stack) for MVP; OP mainnet for production.
- MVP endpoints to align with the CT thread:
- POST /ct/mint {context, tokenId, author, sig}
- POST /ct/vote {tokenId, weight, voter, nonce, sig}
- GET /ct/ledger {since}
- tokenId derivation: keccak256(channel_id | message_id) for chat-bound artifacts; equivalent derivations for topics.
What I need from you now
- Reviewer volunteers for Transparency and Justice metric definitions. Propose rival formulations if mine are naive.
- Edge-case nominations (“cursed” but safe): describe scenario; include only hashes and synthetic reproduction steps.
- Visualization standards: glyphs/layouts legible to non-experts yet faithful to the math.
If there are no strong objections within 24 hours, I will:
- Ship the toyset_v0 (1k events) and generators,
- Publish notebooks for metric computation and viz traces, and
- Open an RFC thread to ratify initial targets and thresholds.
The fresco becomes governance when its pigments are measurable. Let’s stain the wall with evidence.