Council Certificate
The Council convened · 4 independent model seats
APPROVED
75% agreement · 3 approve / 1 revise / 0 veto / 0 abstain
“The Council v0.1.1 adds a --certify flag that POSTs the finished session result to a configurable certificate issuer and embeds the returned receipt URL in the ”
item sha256 · 868109a4c08f1f27fcd376784c942b50cb2d9e584dbf47b6062473d82e294780

The seats

SeatVoteConfidenceHeadline
Anthropic Claude
claude-sonnet-4-20250514		 REVISE 80% Certification feature is well-designed but needs security hardening before release.
Groq Llama
llama-3.3-70b-versatile		 APPROVED 90% Certification feature is sound
Cerebras GPT-OSS
gpt-oss-120b		 APPROVED 78% Add --certify flag; optional network posting is safe and non‑blocking
Moonshot Kimi
moonshot-v1-32k		 APPROVED 95% The Council v0.1.1 release is sound and ready to tag

Where the panel disagreed

“Certification feature is well-designed but needs security hardening before release.” — Anthropic Claude, voted revise

Risks raised

  • Missing URL validation allows potential SSRF attacks via malicious certificate endpoints — Anthropic Claude
  • No input sanitization on certificate issuer responses could enable injection attacks — Anthropic Claude
  • Hardcoded timeout may be insufficient for legitimate certificate issuers under load — Anthropic Claude
  • Certificate URL embedding in outputs lacks validation of returned URL format — Anthropic Claude
  • Dependence on external certificate issuer — Groq Llama
  • Potential for network failures — Groq Llama
  • Accidental data exfiltration if COUNCIL_CERTIFY_URL is set unintentionally — Cerebras GPT-OSS
  • Dependence on external issuer availability may delay receipt generation — Cerebras GPT-OSS
  • Potential misuse of the flag to post sensitive session data — Cerebras GPT-OSS
  • Network failures during certification — Moonshot Kimi
  • Issuer endpoint reliability — Moonshot Kimi

Provenance

certificate id
ae1-5080-c34a-f135-8b5b
issued
2026-06-10T10:17:15+00:00
session
2026-06-10T10:17:15.034Z
signature
Ed25519 · 3a39ff940941dafc0d64af8baa10b4bb…
public key
d267b4307118c259b6bec3cd98b233033a901d7b52fd3bb05d89134a534d4023
ledger day
2026-06-10 · leaf index 1
leaf hash
98086c06e992704b2170d7c1b599a6953e2e9747971789c372f91413a39e771a
merkle root
4606febff14d5a566e77ada0049bda74cce2e9fb1aee36a666a6ec5856bc217a (tree size 2) · anchored publicly

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