Telemetry-to-Claim Gate
The Telemetry-to-Claim Gate is a proposed operational framework, from the Precise Records study, for structuring and recording the evidentiary basis of a telemetry-based claim. Before a metric is promoted into evaluation, routing, governance, or redesign, the operator states the claim as a tuple of metric, analytical unit, construct, population, window, denominator, and interpretation, then tests provenance, coverage, linkage, validation, and sensitivity, and records a disposition.
How it manifests · In practice
Applied in the originating study, the gate turned apparently obvious readings into recorded dispositions: stored files stayed file-level findings rather than session or task findings, a large claims-ledger total resolved into an instrumentation class, and a detector-positive rate was retained as an instrument property while the failure-prevalence claim was withheld.
Evidence: Precise Records (paper)
Related terminology
- measurement validity
- construct validity
- agent observability
- auditability
- provenance
Not the same as
- telemetry collection
- dashboarding
- causal inference