An edition of The Verification Stack (2026)

The Verification Stack

Specs, Gates, Judges, and Escalation for AI Output That Has to Be Right

The Verification Stack by Ravi Vale
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An edition of The Verification Stack (2026)

The Verification Stack

Specs, Gates, Judges, and Escalation for AI Output That Has to Be Right

Architects the missing organ between a score and a shipped artifact: machine-checkable specs that compile into gates, five ordered layers, calibrated judges, and human escalation as a designed interface.

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Greenlit Books
Language
English
Pages
423

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Measurement Is Not a Verdict
Chapter 2. Machine-Checkable Specifications
Chapter 3. The Five-Layer Stack
Chapter 4. The Verification Grid
Chapter 5. Layer One: Static Gates
Chapter 6. Layer Two: Property Tests
Chapter 7. Layer Three: Evals as Gate Inputs
Chapter 8. Layer Four: Calibrated LLM Judges
Chapter 9. Layer Five: Human Escalation
Chapter 10. Composing the Stack
Chapter 11. Verifying Generated Code: Correctness
Chapter 12. Verifying Generated Code: Fit
Chapter 13. Verifying Content: Factuality and Grounding
Chapter 14. Verifying Content: Policy, Brand, and Legal Exposure
Chapter 15. Verifying Decisions: Classifications, Scores, and Approvals
Chapter 16. Verifying Decisions: Chains, Extractions, and Transformations
Chapter 17. Verifying Actions: The Pre-Effect Gate
Chapter 18. Verifying Actions: Post-Effect Confirmation
Chapter 19. Verification Budgets
Chapter 20. Anti-Goodhart Design
Chapter 21. Meta-Evaluation: Verifying the Verifiers
Chapter 22. Designing the Escalation Surface
Chapter 23. Verification-Driven Development
Chapter 24. VDD for Teams: Ownership, CI, and Review
Chapter 25. The Maturity Path: A Minimal Stack to a Standing System
Chapter 26. Provenance and the Audit Trail
Chapter 27. Fintech: Verification Under Financial Regulation
Chapter 28. Health and Safety-Critical: Verification Where Failure Harms People

Edition Notes

Series
The AI-Native Builder Canon ; 4

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Dewey Decimal Class
006.3

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
423

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL62593446M
ISBN 13
9798186296829
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B0H84YCNWN

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Work ID
OL46020488W

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