Government Mirror — Protocol

Direct answer

Government Mirror — Protocol is implemented as a source-bounded protocol guide. The inspected material supports only this scope: Represents government-host recovery as one bounded route while preserving identity and version checks. GovInfo provides programmatic discovery and retrieval for official content, package and granule metadata, and rendition links. Digital signatures can support verification that an official PDF was issued by GPO and has not changed since signing. The page retains this limit: Government hosting does not make a source authoritative for every claim. An API response establishes repository identity and supplied metadata only; it does not prove a document supports a claim, is current law, or applies to a specific fact. Signature verification does not establish that the document is current, applicable, complete for a question, or substantively correct.

Answer contract

Apply the protocol lens only to the exact inspected source scope; do not infer authority from adjacent topics.

Evidence and exact locators

t23-government-recovery — lib/source-recovery.ts — recoveryRequests. Supports: Represents government-host recovery as one bounded route while preserving identity and version checks.

govinfo-api-and-urls-t9 — https://www.govinfo.gov/features/api — living documentation inspected 2026-09-06; API overview; package and granule endpoints; content and metadata downloads; API-key requirement. Supports: GovInfo provides programmatic discovery and retrieval for official content, package and granule metadata, and rendition links.

govinfo-authentication-t9 — https://www.govinfo.gov/about/authentication — living documentation inspected 2026-09-06; Digital signatures for official PDFs; verification status and document-integrity explanation. Supports: Digital signatures can support verification that an official PDF was issued by GPO and has not changed since signing.

What the evidence does not establish

Government hosting does not make a source authoritative for every claim.

An API response establishes repository identity and supplied metadata only; it does not prove a document supports a claim, is current law, or applies to a specific fact.

Signature verification does not establish that the document is current, applicable, complete for a question, or substantively correct.

Rights and reuse

project-owned-reference-only

Official government source; link and bounded paraphrase only. No full text or time-sensitive operational value is retained.

Dependencies and related concepts

applies-to: urn:maha:concept:evidence:government-mirror

governed-by: urn:maha:concept:governance

evidence-for: urn:maha:concept:evidence

Source or implementation

This source or implementation section is constrained to the same inspected scope: Represents government-host recovery as one bounded route while preserving identity and version checks. GovInfo provides programmatic discovery and retrieval for official content, package and granule metadata, and rendition links. Digital signatures can support verification that an official PDF was issued by GPO and has not changed since signing.

It must preserve the recorded boundary: Government hosting does not make a source authoritative for every claim. An API response establishes repository identity and supplied metadata only; it does not prove a document supports a claim, is current law, or applies to a specific fact. Signature verification does not establish that the document is current, applicable, complete for a question, or substantively correct.

Method

This method section is constrained to the same inspected scope: Represents government-host recovery as one bounded route while preserving identity and version checks. GovInfo provides programmatic discovery and retrieval for official content, package and granule metadata, and rendition links. Digital signatures can support verification that an official PDF was issued by GPO and has not changed since signing.

It must preserve the recorded boundary: Government hosting does not make a source authoritative for every claim. An API response establishes repository identity and supplied metadata only; it does not prove a document supports a claim, is current law, or applies to a specific fact. Signature verification does not establish that the document is current, applicable, complete for a question, or substantively correct.

Limits and uncertainty

This limits and uncertainty section is constrained to the same inspected scope: Represents government-host recovery as one bounded route while preserving identity and version checks. GovInfo provides programmatic discovery and retrieval for official content, package and granule metadata, and rendition links. Digital signatures can support verification that an official PDF was issued by GPO and has not changed since signing.

It must preserve the recorded boundary: Government hosting does not make a source authoritative for every claim. An API response establishes repository identity and supplied metadata only; it does not prove a document supports a claim, is current law, or applies to a specific fact. Signature verification does not establish that the document is current, applicable, complete for a question, or substantively correct.

Dependencies

This dependencies section is constrained to the same inspected scope: Represents government-host recovery as one bounded route while preserving identity and version checks. GovInfo provides programmatic discovery and retrieval for official content, package and granule metadata, and rendition links. Digital signatures can support verification that an official PDF was issued by GPO and has not changed since signing.

It must preserve the recorded boundary: Government hosting does not make a source authoritative for every claim. An API response establishes repository identity and supplied metadata only; it does not prove a document supports a claim, is current law, or applies to a specific fact. Signature verification does not establish that the document is current, applicable, complete for a question, or substantively correct.

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