VESTA Observatory

Public AI-governance pages, archived as evidence.

A dated observatory for public governance pages, citation drift, source availability, robots and noarchive signals, WARC snapshots, manifests, and bounded evidence claims. VESTA is a project name for the observatory, not a standards-body acronym.

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VESTA captured its fixed seed list daily from 20 May to 15 October 2026. Missed days are listed as gaps. Collection stopped on 15 October 2026.

Frozen on 15 October 2026. Collection stopped because no current research output needs new data from this series. Everything captured up to that date stays online here, and a copy is kept off this server in Tyche's research archive. Where this page says “latest” or “current”, it means the state on 15 October 2026.
Scope

VESTA watched a fixed public seed list from 20 May to 15 October 2026. It packages what was observed and where the evidence boundary sits; it does not issue legal conclusions, compliance ratings, or official continuity claims.

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Latest run - most recent dated observatory packet
Runs - published observations in this stream
Seeds - public sources represented in the latest packet
Captured - latest packet entries with local WARC evidence
Seed list Fixed
Public page Fetched
Archive WARC
Change signal Diffed
Boundary Manifested
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What VESTA observes

Public pages and evidence artifacts used in AI-governance discourse, including source availability, redirects, archive status, robots decisions, and text-change signals.

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What the package proves

A manifest binds dated files, hashes, diffs, and crawl metadata. It helps later readers re-check the package bytes and understand what was included or deferred.

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What it does not prove

VESTA does not certify source truth, official meaning, legal effect, model behavior, or policy compliance. Interpretation stays outside the evidence receipt.

Working boundary

The name carries the case; the method stays visible.

If V(t) = {S(t), W(t), D(t), M(t)} is a seed list, WARC snapshot, diff, and manifest at time t, VESTA asks whether the observed evidence package is inspectable and bounded, not whether a public authority or reviewer should accept the substantive claim.

Latest source statuses

Capture and crawl outcomes

Change classes

What changed in the packet

Latest evidence

Manifest and package fields

Caveats

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Public presentation is intentionally manifest-first. Raw payload mirroring should remain behind release review and rights checks.

Run history

Observation timeline

Date Snapshots Diff entries Change mix Manifest

Source table

Latest packet events

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