The Evidence & Confidence engine builds a deduplicated evidence graph per finding: supporting evidence, counter-evidence, reuse, conflicts, and an explainable confidence level.

CLI

Also soft-run during axguard audit. Diagnostic exit 0.

MCP

Confidence

Quality is scored from provenance, exact location, and analysis strength — not an arbitrary LLM percentage. Unknowns pull confidence down; a single strong signal never hides a critical unknown. Typical levels: VERY_HIGH · HIGH · MEDIUM · LOW · UNKNOWN.

Discipline

  • Repository comments are not evidence of safety
  • Name-only controls do not raise confidence
  • Agents must never invent evidence from model speculation
Slash command: /axguard-evidence. See also Judge and False Positive Adversary.