Evidica Evidence Manifest specification, version 0.1

An Evidence Manifest is a small, self-contained JSON record of how the claims in a manuscript are tied to specific passages in specific sources, and of the human decisions that made those ties. The researcher produces it from a local evidence workflow. It is a projection of the private record, not the record itself: it carries claim sentences and their hashes, source identifiers and file hashes, passage locators and hashes, human-assigned evidence roles and notes, the retrieval query that surfaced each passage, and the integrity state of the source record (event count, head hash, verification). It excludes the manuscript body, full text, files, credentials and paths. It records provenance and human judgment, not correctness. This record contains three things. (1) The specification, EVIDICA_Evidence_Manifest_v0.1_EN_20260904.md: purpose, design rules, field classes, fields, validation, the mapping from Evidica's evidica-evidence-chain-v1 export, and known gaps. (2) A fully synthetic worked example: evidence-manifest.json with its human-readable rendering, README and SHA-256 list. Every paper, passage, claim, note and decision in it is fabricated (PMID 9000xxxx, DOI 10.5555/synth.*) and the reviewer label is "A. Researcher". It is deliberately marked incomplete (two claims reviewed, one draft, one whose anchor was lost after an edit) so that the completeness rule is visible. (3) evidence-chain-demo.zip, the synthetic source export the example was projected from (Evidica's audit export: JSON, Markdown, PDF, SHA-256 list). In real use this export stays on the researcher's machine; it is deposited here only because it is synthetic. Status: draft 0.1 for feedback; field names may change before 1.0. The specification is implementation-neutral: Evidica, the author's local-first desktop tool for literature work, is the first source format, but any tool that records the same decisions can emit a manifest. A companion record with a real-use manifest from the author's own literature review, and a case note on its limits, is deposited separately (see Related works).