{"schemaVersion":"0.1","generatedAt":"2026-09-21T12:10:40.751Z","entry":{"knowledgeKey":"decision-receipts","kind":"capability","entityKey":"decision-receipts","locale":"en","primaryQuestion":"What is in a Decision Receipt, and what does it prove?","questionVariants":[{"question":"What does a Decision Receipt contain?"},{"question":"What can I verify from a Decision Receipt?"},{"question":"Does a receipt prove the decision was correct?"}],"title":"Decision Receipts: what the record contains","answer":"A Decision Receipt is a signed record of a policy assessment. It connects the result to the policy version and information used. With the necessary verification material and trusted keys, a reviewer can check the signed record and replay the assessment. It does not prove that the inputs were true, that the decision was correct or that the action was carried out.","explanation":"One receipt covers one assessment. Who contributed, who reviewed and where human approval was required are recorded around that assessment and linked to it — they are not later events folded inside the original signed record. Source documents stay with your team or evidence custodian; MeshQu binds their references and digital fingerprints to the assessment. You choose the context submitted for evaluation, and recording the decision stores that context and its result. A verification bundle brings the signed receipt, policy snapshot and available supporting proofs together for offline checks, and replay re-runs the bundled policy rules against the bundled context; independent checking depends on trust roots obtained out of band, so what verification settles — and what it does not — is a separate subject with its own entry.","applications":[{"value":"Give a reviewer a recorded starting point, without relying on the original decision-maker's memory."},{"value":"Trace a deny or review verdict to the rules that triggered it and the reasons recorded."},{"value":"Keep sensitive source material in your own custody while binding its references and digital fingerprints to the assessment."}],"limitations":[{"value":"Verification does not, by itself, establish that the source data was true."},{"value":"The receipt records the policy assessment; it does not explain an AI model's internal reasoning."},{"value":"A receipt does not establish that the decision was correct."},{"value":"For API integrations, the receipt binds the actor identifier the calling application supplied. It does not independently authenticate that actor."},{"value":"The receipt does not establish which model, version or configuration produced a result."}],"nextStep":{"label":"What a verification bundle contains","href":"https://docs.meshqu.com/concepts/verification-bundle"},"claims":[{"claimKey":"binds-policy-and-context","statement":"A Decision Receipt binds a recorded assessment to the exact policy version and context used, and is signed, replayable and independently verifiable.","qualification":"Independent verification depends on separately trusted public keys; see the limits-of-verification entry."},{"claimKey":"records-responsibility","statement":"The record shows who or what contributed, who reviewed, and where human approval was required.","qualification":"Responsibility is recorded as submitted. Recording an actor is not the same as authenticating one."},{"claimKey":"source-custody","statement":"Source documents stay in the customer's custody; MeshQu binds their references and digital fingerprints to the assessment, and stores the context submitted for evaluation with its result.","qualification":"The customer chooses what context is submitted."},{"claimKey":"not-correctness","statement":"Verification checks the signed record and its bound policy, evidence references and available lineage proofs. It does not, by itself, establish that source data is true or that the decision was correct.","qualification":"Quoted in substance from the reviewed public disclosure on /receipts."},{"claimKey":"actor-identifier-bound-not-authenticated","statement":"For API integrations, the receipt binds the actor identifier supplied by the calling application. This does not independently authenticate the actor or establish which model, version or configuration produced the result.","qualification":"`actor.id` is included in the receipt's integrity hash; `actor.type` is a display annotation outside it. Model, model-version and configuration-digest fields are a v3 RFC draft, design-only as of the 17 July 2026 register. Not checked for verified-session human flows."}],"statementKind":"product-description","availability":"limited-pilot","evidenceStrength":"source-reported","publicSources":[{"title":"MeshQu docs — Concepts overview: Decision Receipt","url":"https://docs.meshqu.com/concepts/overview#decision-receipt","fragment":"decision-receipt","context":"The documentation owner's definition of the record this entry describes."},{"title":"MeshQu docs — Verification bundle","url":"https://docs.meshqu.com/concepts/verification-bundle","context":"What a verification bundle contains and how an offline check is performed."},{"title":"MeshQu docs — Actor attribution","url":"https://docs.meshqu.com/guides/actor-attribution","context":"Which actor fields are covered by the integrity hash and which are display annotations, and the documentation owner's statement that MeshQu does not authenticate actor identities against an identity provider."},{"title":"MeshQu docs — Trust model: context-bound (L3)","url":"https://docs.meshqu.com/security/trust-model#l3-%E2%80%94-context-bound","fragment":"l3-%E2%80%94-context-bound","context":"How evidence references are bound to a decision while the source material stays in the customer's custody."}],"approval":{"validFrom":"2026-09-10T12:00:00.000Z"},"revision":"111e5d0c458bb258f1a015e29cead384c69d21b6dd5cef376fa4217615dc550e","updatedAt":"2026-09-11T13:39:44.077Z","canonicalUrl":"https://www.meshqu.com/receipts","related":[{"key":"what-meshqu-does","url":"https://www.meshqu.com/knowledge/what-meshqu-does.json"},{"key":"limits-of-verification","url":"https://www.meshqu.com/knowledge/limits-of-verification.json"},{"key":"actor-identity","url":"https://www.meshqu.com/knowledge/actor-identity.json"}]}}