ver-validator — the VERA conformance profile for VER records

ver-validator: what each of the seventeen stages checks, the JSON report contract, and the Python API.

1. OverviewStructural validation tells you a record is the right shape.
2. Running itNo install is needed.
3. Command line--registry, --lineage-peer and --profile reach rules that exist only under --schema 1.1-draft;
4. Python APIVeraValidationReport (frozen pydantic v2 model) carries profile, schema_version, level_claimed, level_effective, issues, ok, status, ok_after_policy_exceptions and ignored_codes, plus the errors, warnings, codes, kept_issues and effective_o
5. What it checks(W) marks warning severity;
6. The 1.1 draft profile--schema 1.1-draft loads standards/ver/1.1-draft/ver-record.schema.json and switches on the twenty-six rules marked ¹ above.
7. Schema resolutionA schema is looked for in three places, and the first hit wins:
8. Design rules
9. Layout