Public evidence register
This register links each canonical achievement to a dated, privacy-safe evidence record. It exposes uncertainty and limitations instead of converting community reports into official claims.
Schema version: 1.0.0
Records: 9
Privacy policy: Evidence register policy
| Record | Achievement | Evidence | Reproduction | Decision | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
EVD-2026-001 |
Pull Shark | official | github-owned-live-product-fragment | accepted-with-limitations | 2026-07-19 |
EVD-2026-002 |
Quickdraw | official | github-owned-live-product-fragment | accepted-with-limitations | 2026-07-19 |
EVD-2026-003 |
YOLO | official | github-owned-live-product-fragment | accepted-with-limitations | 2026-07-19 |
EVD-2026-004 |
Pair Extraordinaire | official | github-owned-live-product-fragment | accepted-with-limitations | 2026-07-19 |
EVD-2026-005 |
Galaxy Brain | official | github-owned-live-product-fragment | accepted-with-limitations | 2026-07-19 |
EVD-2026-006 |
Starstruck | official | github-owned-live-product-fragment | accepted-with-limitations | 2026-07-19 |
EVD-2026-007 |
Public Sponsor | official | officially-documented-trigger | accepted-with-limitations | 2026-07-19 |
EVD-2026-008 |
Arctic Code Vault Contributor | official | historical-official-documentation | accepted | 2026-07-19 |
EVD-2026-009 |
Mars 2020 Contributor | official | historical-official-documentation | accepted | 2026-07-19 |
Record details
EVD-2026-001 — Pull Shark
Claim: GitHub’s live product fragment explicitly documents the material Pull Shark contract.
Guide location: docs/achievements/pull-shark.md — Trigger and attribution
Privacy: public-no-personal-data
Sources: 1 public source(s), 0 archive source(s)
Contradictory evidence: 0 item(s)
GitHub’s live x4 detail fragment states the merged-pull-request trigger and the 2nd, 16th, 128th, and 1024th milestones.
EVD-2026-002 — Quickdraw
Claim: GitHub’s live product fragment explicitly documents the material Quickdraw contract.
Guide location: docs/quickdraw.md — Qualifying time window
Privacy: public-no-personal-data
Sources: 5 public source(s), 0 archive source(s)
Contradictory evidence: 0 item(s)
GitHub’s live detail fragment links a qualifying pull request and states that it was closed within five minutes of opening.
EVD-2026-003 — YOLO
Claim: GitHub’s live product fragment explicitly documents the material YOLO contract.
Guide location: docs/achievements/yolo.md — Review-state requirement
Privacy: public-no-personal-data
Sources: 5 public source(s), 0 archive source(s)
Contradictory evidence: 0 item(s)
GitHub’s live detail fragment links a qualifying pull request and states that it was merged without a review.
EVD-2026-004 — Pair Extraordinaire
Claim: GitHub’s live product fragment explicitly documents the material Pair Extraordinaire contract.
Guide location: achievements/pair-extraordinaire.md — Co-author attribution
Privacy: public-no-personal-data
Sources: 8 public source(s), 0 archive source(s)
Contradictory evidence: 0 item(s)
GitHub’s live detail fragment states that Pair Extraordinaire recognises coauthored commits on merged pull requests; numerical tier counts remain unpublished.
EVD-2026-005 — Galaxy Brain
Claim: GitHub’s live product fragment explicitly documents the material Galaxy Brain contract.
Guide location: docs/achievements/galaxy-brain.md — Accepted answers
Privacy: public-no-personal-data
Sources: 3 public source(s), 0 archive source(s)
Contradictory evidence: 0 item(s)
GitHub’s live x4 detail fragment publishes accepted-answer milestones at 2, 8, 16, and 32.
EVD-2026-006 — Starstruck
Claim: GitHub’s live product fragment explicitly documents the material Starstruck contract.
Guide location: docs/achievements/starstruck.md — Repository ownership and star thresholds
Privacy: public-no-personal-data
Sources: 1 public source(s), 0 archive source(s)
Contradictory evidence: 0 item(s)
GitHub’s live x4 detail fragment states the repository-creation trigger and star milestones at 16, 128, 512, and 4096.
EVD-2026-007 — Public Sponsor
Claim: Sponsoring an open-source contributor through GitHub Sponsors can award Public Sponsor.
Guide location: docs/achievements/public-sponsor.md — Public sponsorship visibility
Privacy: public-no-financial-data
Sources: 2 public source(s), 1 archive source(s)
Contradictory evidence: 0 item(s)
Archived GitHub documentation directly states the sponsor-badge trigger. Visibility, cancellation, eligibility, and processing behaviour remain limitations rather than changes to the broad trigger.
EVD-2026-008 — Arctic Code Vault Contributor
Claim: The account authored a commit on the default branch of a repository archived in the 2020 GitHub Arctic Code Vault program.
Guide location: docs/arctic-code-vault-contributor.md — 2020 archive qualification
Privacy: public-no-personal-data
Sources: 1 public source(s), 1 archive source(s)
Contradictory evidence: 0 item(s)
GitHub’s archived profile documentation states the default-branch commit criterion, while GitHub’s Archive Program publication documents the badge and 2020 vault.
EVD-2026-009 — Mars 2020 Contributor
Claim: The account authored or co-authored a commit present in the listed qualifying tag of a repository used by the Mars 2020 Helicopter Mission.
Guide location: docs/mars-2020-contributor.md — Mission-linked qualification
Privacy: public-no-personal-data
Sources: 2 public source(s), 1 archive source(s)
Contradictory evidence: 0 item(s)
Current GitHub documentation publishes the qualifying repository/version/tag list. Archived documentation records commit authorship, co-authorship, tag, and verified-email attribution conditions.
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