Zero-Trust Ingestion
Protocol requiring explicit provenance before accepting claims
Zero-trust ingestion is a protocol that treats incoming information as unverified by default. Every claim must carry explicit provenance and pass through verification before gaining authority in the knowledge system.
The name borrows from zero-trust security: assume nothing is safe until proven.
In practice, this means new claims enter with tentative status, must be
traceable to sources and evidence spans, and
should be exposed to rebuttal-first search before
being treated as established.
Zero-trust ingestion is a defense against AI slop and Encyclopedia Meltdown. When the environment is flooded with plausible but unverified content, the only safe posture is to require proof of origin and survive challenges before acceptance.