# Evidence Verdict

> Run each test, gather its evidence, and issue the verdict: pass or fail when the evidence set is non-empty, unknown when it is empty, so an untested or unrun surface reads as unknown rather than as a silent pass.

Record: `algorithms:evidence-verdict`
Kind: algorithm
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms#algorithms-evidence-verdict
Closure: https://banes-lab.com/json/records/algorithms/evidence-verdict/closure

Listed in [Algorithm contracts](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/algorithms.md), after [Test Authoring](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/test-authoring.md) and before [Coverage Ledger](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/coverage-ledger.md).

## Domain

- [Test coverage](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms-domain/test-coverage.md)

## Stage

- [verify](https://banes-lab.com/records/stage/verify.md)

## Axis

- [verification](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/axis-verification.md)

## Tier

- [process](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/domain-tier-process.md)

## Composed by

- [Test Coverage Kernel](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/test-coverage-kernel.md)

## Grounds

- [ver-evidence](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/node-ver-evidence.md)

## Named in the derivation of

- [Test Coverage Kernel](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/test-coverage-kernel.md)

## Math type

- [Logic](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/math-type-logic.md)

## Force

- [Correctness verification](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/correctness-verification.md)

## Linked from

- [What can drift, seen through how it drifts](https://banes-lab.com/software-architecture/coverage/what-can-drift-seen-through-how-it-drifts.md)
- [Test coverage](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-test-coverage.md)
- [The derivation loop](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/reasoning-loop-derivation-loop.md)
- [The axes](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-axes.md)
- [The nodes](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-nodes.md)
- [The mathematics](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-mathematics.md)
- [Domain tiers](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-domain-tier.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)