Draft capability entry (reuse-surface REUSE-WP-0017-T04, cohort 1)

Honest first-pass maturity vector grounded in README/docs/tests present
in this repo; no invented evidence. Flagged for human review before
publish. See reuse-surface history/2026-07-06-coverage-classification.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

registry/capabilities/capability.communication.compliance-evidence-framework.md

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+---
+id: capability.communication.compliance-evidence-framework
+name: Certification And Compliance Evidence Framework
+summary: Framework that turns standards, conformance, regulatory, and repository-quality claims into structured,
+  reviewable, repeatable, comparable evidence via a pluggable extension architecture.
+owner: guide-board
+status: draft
+domain: communication
+tags:
+- compliance
+- certification
+- evidence
+- extensions
+maturity:
+  discovery:
+    current: D2
+    target: D4
+    confidence: medium
+    rationale: README documents the framework/extension split and a working local baseline (extensions
+      list/validate, profile validate-target/validate-assessment, plan, run); no separate INTENT/SCOPE
+      found.
+  availability:
+    current: A2
+    target: A3
+    confidence: medium
+    rationale: Dependency-light and runnable today via `PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m guide_board ...`; ships
+      sample profiles and a working plan/run pipeline.
+external_evidence:
+  completeness:
+    level: C1
+    confidence: low
+    basis: scope_vs_intent_and_consumer_expectations
+    satisfied_expectations:
+    - extension listing/validation
+    - target/assessment profile validation
+    - plan and run pipeline with sample profiles
+    broken_expectations: []
+    out_of_scope_expectations: []
+  reliability:
+    level: R0
+    confidence: low
+    basis: consumer_quality_signals
+    known_reliability_risks:
+    - domain-specific extensions are described as living separately; core repo scope stops at contracts
+discovery:
+  intent: Turn certification/compliance claims into structured, repeatable evidence that can be reviewed
+    and compared across assessments, with domain specifics delegated to extensions.
+  includes:
+  - framework contracts (targets, assessments, plans, runs)
+  - extension listing and validation
+  - sample profiles
+  excludes:
+  - domain-specific compliance extensions themselves (live in separate extension packages)
+  assumptions: []
+  use_cases: []
+  research_memos: []
+availability:
+  current_level: A2
+  target_level: A3
+  current_artifacts:
+  - Python package (`guide_board`), runnable via `PYTHONPATH=src`
+  target_artifacts: []
+  consumption_modes:
+  - cli
+relations:
+  depends_on: []
+  supports: []
+  related_to: []
+evidence:
+  documentation:
+  - README.md
+  tests:
+  - tests/
+  consumer_feedback: []
+  bug_reports: []
+  incidents: []
+consumer_guidance:
+  recommended_for:
+  - repos needing a structured compliance/certification evidence pipeline
+  not_recommended_for:
+  - needs where no extension exists yet for the target domain
+  known_limitations:
+  - core is intentionally dependency-light; domain coverage depends on which extensions exist
+promotion_history: []
+---
+
+# Certification And Compliance Evidence Framework
+
+## Overview
+
+`guide-board` is a certification and compliance preparation framework. The root project owns framework contracts (targets, assessments, plans, runs); domain-specific compliance logic lives in extensions.
+
+## Assessment notes
+
+### Discovery
+
+README documents the framework/extension split and a working local baseline (extensions list/validate, profile validate-target/validate-assessment, plan, run); no separate INTENT/SCOPE found.
+
+### Availability
+
+Dependency-light and runnable today via `PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m guide_board ...`; ships sample profiles and a working plan/run pipeline.
+
+### Completeness
+
+First-pass honest assessment from the REUSE-WP-0017 coverage campaign
+(reuse-surface). No external consumer feedback exists yet; levels reflect
+scope-vs-intent documentation quality, not internal code quality.
+
+### Reliability
+
+No production consumer telemetry exists yet; reliability level is
+intentionally conservative pending REUSE-WP-0019 reuse-telemetry evidence.
+
+## Promotion checklist
+
+- [x] ID follows `capability.<domain>.<name>` pattern
+- [x] Maturity enums match `specs/CapabilityMaturityStandard.md`
+- [x] `external_evidence` is populated separately from `maturity`
+- [ ] Relations reference valid capability IDs (none yet)
+- [x] Index entry added in `registry/indexes/capabilities.yaml`