Stewardship
Trusted actor program
Publicus is open source, but the published trust graph must not be open to unreviewed mutation. The trusted actor path lets experts contribute faster without weakening the registry.
Contribution lanes
Open challengeAnyone can dispute a claim, propose evidence, report drift, or improve explanatory docs.
Trusted reviewNamed reviewers can help reconcile evidence, but load-bearing status changes still require maintainer-controlled publication.
Signed publicationRegistry truth changes only through governed, signed, auditable paths.
Private facts stay privateExploit detail, secrets, internal detections, and department-specific heuristics are not accepted into the public substrate.
Why this sequencing matters
As cyber-capable AI becomes more available, malicious and careless contributions get cheaper too. Publicus must therefore separate open inspection from publication authority. The open value is public evidence and challenge; the safety control is stewarded promotion.
Read the governance model or read the stewarded OSS safeguards.