Minimum rules under which a student's thinking is made visible, examined, and recorded as a verifiable document — a Thinking Passport record.
The unit of evidence is not the artifact but the defense.
In an age when any text can be generated, a finished artifact no longer proves that a human has thought. A Passport Record certifies something narrower and stronger: that on a given date, under witnessed conditions, a student defended their own thinking with their own voice — held a position, gave reasons, met objections, and acknowledged what they could not defend.
We do not certify the person. We certify a defended act of thinking. A record issued under the Protocol is never a measure of intelligence, a psychological assessment, a prediction of success, or proof that the underlying work was produced without AI.
| Version | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|
| v0.1 | 9 June 2026 | First dated draft. Internal; preserved unchanged as proof of precedence. |
| v0.2 | 11 June 2026 | Pre-issuance version. Governs Thinking Passport №001 (English text governing; authorized Georgian translation in use in Georgia). |
| v0.3 | — | Planned: corrections after Record №001. Internal. |
| v1.0 | — | Planned: first public version, published on this page with a changelog, under a CC BY 4.0 license. The Protocol will be open; the Thinking Verified mark will remain controlled. |
| v2.0 | — | Planned: cryptographic verification of records (W3C Verifiable Credentials). Until then, records are described honestly as source-verifiable, not cryptographically verified. |
The full text of v0.2 is an internal working document: it will be corrected against the real practice of issuing Record №001 before it is published as v1.0. What is already fixed and public is this page, the register, and the permanent address of Record №001.
Researchers, institutions, and educators who want the full v0.2 text before publication can request it: contact the Steward.
Author and Steward: Sofiko Bigvava · Tbilisi, Georgia. Addresses under /protocol/, /passport/, and /registry are permanent (Protocol, Section 16).