> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.soterislabs.xyz/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Record schemas

> The five public record families and the schema posture.

Five public record families appear across these docs. Each family is hand-curated for interoperability, not generated from backend schemas, and no page here publishes a raw table or internal event payload.

## Families

| Record                | Purpose                                                       | Contract page                                          |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| `InputRecord`         | Describes submitted material and mapping context.             | [Input records](/records/input-record)                 |
| `ArtifactRecord`      | Describes produced work and its review and release status.    | [Artifact records](/records/artifact-record)           |
| `ReleaseRecord`       | Describes what was authorized and made available.             | [Release records](/records/release-record)             |
| `VerificationReceipt` | Describes what can be inspected about a released record.      | [Verification receipts](/records/verification-receipt) |
| `StatusCard`          | Summarizes lifecycle state, owner, blockers, and next action. | [Status card](/records/status-card)                    |

<Card title="Record flow">
  <img className="block dark:hidden" src="https://mintcdn.com/soterislabs-32/r2dzmWujqARqVkNU/images/diagrams/record-flow-light.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=r2dzmWujqARqVkNU&q=85&s=39dddec3b92682c316b031edf280e178" alt="Record flow across the five public record families" width="3600" height="2025" data-path="images/diagrams/record-flow-light.png" />

  <img className="hidden dark:block" src="https://mintcdn.com/soterislabs-32/r2dzmWujqARqVkNU/images/diagrams/record-flow-dark.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=r2dzmWujqARqVkNU&q=85&s=ae14bb47b26ed8bb73fb1384d1b46123" alt="Record flow across the five public record families" width="3600" height="2025" data-path="images/diagrams/record-flow-dark.png" />

  How the five record families connect, from input record to verification receipt.
</Card>

## Schema posture

The public schema stays stable so partners can map against it. The implementation underneath is free to change. Field names describe state, shape, and authority; fields that would carry reviewer reasoning, scoring, or gate output are excluded at design time, per the [Disclosure boundary](/start/disclosure-boundary).

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  These docs do not publish raw tables, internal event payloads, prompt inputs, scoring outputs, procedure programs, or review rationale.
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