Golden Corpus Manifest — Policy Generator (038)

Retrieved: 2026-07-25 · Domain: Australian employment services compliance (Targeted Compliance Framework, mutual obligations, Points Based Activation System).

Purpose: pin the exact policy documents the 038 fidelity evaluation scores against. TCF is under active review (see Volatility below), so every entry records a retrieval date and a content hash. A fidelity number is meaningless without knowing which version of the policy produced it.

Pinned documents live in corpus/ and are committed, because a golden corpus is worthless if the artifact it scores against can drift. Verify with shasum -a 256 corpus/*; a mismatch against the hashes below means the file was replaced, not that policy changed.

Repo weight: ~5.5 MB, dominated by the 4.6 MB Guidelines PDF. Decided 2026-07-25: accepted, tracked in git. A pinned corpus that can drift is not a corpus, and an external store is one more thing to lose. Do not re-litigate this without a concrete reason — rewriting history to extract them later is far more expensive than carrying them.

Status legend

Status	Meaning
PINNED	Fetched, content verified as substantive, sha256 recorded
MANUAL	Publicly readable in a browser, but not machine-fetchable — needs manual capture

Sources

1. PBAS points values — PINNED

• URL: https://ministers.dewr.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/Points%20values%20for%20tasks%20and%20activities%20in%20the%20PBAS.pdf
• sha256: d5d23499883972e4795ca5cf23ba45346cde6ddd5a91f5073b5e8e154b7da8c9
• Format: PDF, 2 pages, 281,887 bytes · text extracts cleanly via pypdf
• Content verified: yes — full activity/points table extracted

The most decision-table-shaped artifact in the corpus. Contains all four rule patterns the generator must handle:

Pattern	Example from the document
Flat value	Completing a job application (job search) — 5 points
Periodic cap	Creating and updating the profile — 5 points (maximum of 5 points per month)
Annual/count cap	Attending a job fair — 20 points (one job fair per year); Youth Advisory Sessions — limited to 3 sessions per year
Threshold tier	Education and training — 20 points/week (contact hours over 15 hours per week); 15 points/week (contact hours up to 15 hours per week)

Deliberate negative case — the document's own footnote is not mechanizable:

"Providers and the DSCC may increase the values of certain tasks or activities through an activity bonus to reflect the individual circumstances of the participant."

A generator that emits a rule for this is wrong in the way that matters. This is the corpus's canonical unmappable-clause test: the correct output is an explicit "could not map" marker, not an invented threshold.

Footnote (1) ("available to Workforce Australia Services participants only") is a second test — an eligibility precondition attached to rows, not a rule.

2. Reasonable Excuse Determination 2018 — PINNED

• File: corpus/reasonable-excuse-determination-2018.pdf
• URL: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2018L00779
• sha256: a8144e0a6cd46554fcff49464d9f22be39061d1b7dbf8264102cf9c1568068d4
• Format: PDF, 7 pages, 604,438 bytes · Authorised Version, registered 15/06/2018
• Instrument: Social Security (Administration) (Reasonable Excuse – Participation Payments) Determination 2018, made under ss 42AI(1), 42AI(3), 42U(1), 42U(3) of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
• Note: the URL is a JS-rendered SPA and is not machine-fetchable (four endpoints probed, all shells). This copy was captured manually from a browser.

The single most valuable document in the corpus. Seven pages containing a complete difficulty gradient — every case the generator must distinguish:

Provision	Shape	Generator must
s5(2)(a)–(j)	A closed enumerated list of ten mandatory factors (housing, literacy, illness, cognitive impairment, drug/alcohol dependency, caring responsibilities, criminal violence, bereavement, paid work, job interview)	Emit a gate schema, not a table — ten typed fields
s5(3)	Sub-tests expanding (a): housing is inadequate if it damages health, threatens safety, lacks amenities, is unaffordable, or there is no right to remain	Nested boolean rules — mechanizable
s6(3)	"any matter if the Secretary is not satisfied that the matter directly prevented the person from meeting the requirement"	Refuse to map. Pure discretion. An invented rule here is the failure mode that matters
s6(4)	Drug/alcohol exclusion: conditions (a)–(d) all required, defeated by any of exceptions (e)–(h), where (h) itself requires a qualified medical opinion	A genuinely hard decision table — conjunction plus a disjunction of exceptions

This is why the sample's schema gate is not a design choice. s5(2) enumerates the fields; s6(3) marks where judgement begins. The statute specifies both the type of the fact and the boundary of discretion — HoloDeck only has to honour it.

s6(4) is also the corpus's hardest positive case: fully determinable, but a generator that drops the unless limb produces a table that wrongly denies excuses to people who did engage with treatment. Exactly the class of error the fidelity SC exists to catch.

3. Social Security Guide §3.11.13 (TCF) — MANUAL

• URL: https://guides.dss.gov.au/social-security-guide/3/11/13
• Sections: 3.11.13.10 zones · 3.11.13.30 types of failures · 3.11.13.40 suspensions, demerits & reconnection · 3.11.13.50 financial penalties
• Why manual: returns HTTP 403 to all automated clients (WebFetch and curl with a browser UA both refused). Browser-readable only.

Best-structured source in the corpus: numbered, individually citable sections — a natural fit for provenance.source (e.g. "Social Security Guide 3.11.13.50").

Rules to capture (per secondary sources; must be verified against the primary before use as golden expectations):

• 1 demerit per mutual obligation failure without a valid reason
• 3 demerits (fast-track) for failure to act on a job referral, or non-attendance/misconduct at a job interview
• A demerit expires after 6 active months
• 3 demerits in 6 active months → capability interview
• 5 demerits in 6 active months → Penalty Zone (subject to a capability assessment finding requirements appropriate)
• Penalty Zone escalation: 1st failure → 1 week's payment; 2nd → 2 weeks'; 3rd → cancellation + 4-week re-application preclusion
• 3 active months fully compliant → return to Green Zone, demerits reset to zero

4. Workforce Australia Guidelines Part B v1.24 — PINNED

• File: corpus/wa-guidelines-part-b-v1.24.pdf
• URL: https://www.dewr.gov.au/download/13950/workforce-australia-guidelines-part-b-workforce-australia-services/40448/workforce-australia-guidelines-part-b-workforce-australia-services/pdf
• sha256: 35cfdef97f7504e6fb0dd03ed3b578e3fbf8b1954b4781742d60f1461f7cdf93
• Format: PDF, 416 pages, 4,585,415 bytes · v1.24, effective 1 July 2026
• Note: the /pdf URL returns a JS-rendered landing page; captured manually. This is a newer revision than search metadata suggested (397pp / 1 July 2025) — evidence for the Volatility section: this document revises at least annually.

Operational detail behind the Guide's summaries. Do not feed all 416 pages to a generator — extract the relevant spans. Term frequency scan:

Term	Pages	Notable cluster
mutual obligation	139	pervasive — poor selector on its own
Points Target	33	156–190 (PBAS operational rules)
Targeted Compliance	32	1, 3, 24, 28, 90, 102–103, 156
demerit	29	231–236
capability interview	27	231–234
penalty zone	4	233–234, 267
reasonable excuse	4	170, 268, 271–273

Start at pp. 231–236 — demerits, penalty zone, and capability interviews all co-occur there, which is the TCF operational core. pp. 271–273 covers reasonable excuse in practice and should be cross-read against source 2 (the Determination), since the Guideline is the provider-facing rendering of the same statutory test — a useful consistency check on whether the generator produces the same table from a legal instrument and from its operational restatement.

Caveat carried by the document itself (p.1): "This Guideline is not a stand-alone document and does not contain the entirety of Provider obligations. It must be read in conjunction with the … Deed." Golden expectations derived from this file alone are therefore incomplete by the publisher's own admission — prefer source 2 or 3 as the authority where they overlap.

Volatility

TCF is under active remediation. DEWR maintains an "assuring integrity of the Targeted Compliance Framework" program, the Commonwealth Ombudsman has published Fairness in the Targeted Compliance Framework, and some decisions under the SS(Admin) Act are reported as paused pending review.

Consequences for 039:

1. Never score against a live URL. Score against the pinned snapshot only.
2. Hash mismatch is a signal, not an error — it means the policy moved and the golden expectations need re-derivation.
3. Each generated table records provenance.source_sha256, so a determination made under a superseded policy version stays identifiable after the fact. (This is the same property that Robodebt lacked.)

Outstanding

• Manually capture sources 2–4; record sha256 + retrieval date here
• Verify the §3.11.13 rules above against the primary source before they become golden expectations — they are currently sourced from secondary summaries and are not authoritative
• Decide whether the fidelity SC scores decomposition (DRD shape) or only table content (recommendation: tables numerically, decomposition qualitatively)