Policy Manifests and Certificates

Policy manifests, compliance certificates, and their revocation in Integrity Service.

Integrity Service helps create the durable records behind policy manifests and compliance certificates.

Policy Manifests

A policy manifest summarizes the policy context and supporting governance evidence for a claim. It helps users and auditors understand what evidence was considered when a certificate or governance record was produced.

Certificates

Compliance certificates represent issued governance claims. Integrity Service supports certificate issuance and credential status workflows, while the Guardian Platform presents the user-facing credential views.

Revocation

When a credential is revoked, users should no longer rely on it as active evidence. Revocation can happen when governance work is archived, a decision changes, or the certificate should no longer be trusted.

Review Guidance

Confirm project, policy, and subject information before issuing a certificate.
Review related declarations, reviews, and indicators, and the lineage of any model or dataset they rely on.
Keep certificate issuance aligned with the organization’s approval process.
Revoke credentials when they should no longer be accepted.

Credentials — issuing, downloading, and revoking credentials in Guardian
Lineage Graphs — how the models and datasets behind the evidence were produced
Evidence Records — the evidence records a manifest summarizes
Integrity Service Troubleshooting — checks for failed issuance and incomplete manifests