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Machine-readable evidence

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Evidence a machine can query, diff and aggregate (OSCAL artefacts, structured eval results, signed logs), as opposed to screenshots and exported spreadsheets.

Developed in
ch. 05, Pattern: Machine-Readable Evidence (OSCAL)
Chapters
ch. 03, Values & Principles · ch. 04, The Stack · ch. 05, Patterns
In the open reference
Assurance evidence for frontier AI
Source
Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source

Where it is used

15 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

12 pattern pages use the term; the 10 that use it most:

  • JSON Schema

    A vocabulary for describing the structure of JSON documents so a validator can check them: which fields exist, which are required, their types and allowed…

  • OSCAL

    The Open Security Controls Assessment Language, a NIST machine-readable format for controls, assessments and evidence, used here as the format for audit-ready…

Sources

No external source: the term is coined or used in a specific sense by this Body of Knowledge, and the section linked under "Developed in" is its source.

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Machine-readable evidence. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/machine-readable-evidence. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026machinereadableevidence,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Machine-readable evidence}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/machine-readable-evidence}
}