Ingestion Verification Protocol (IVP)

The Ingestion Verification Protocol (IVP) is a methodological framework designed to verify whether an AI system has genuinely processed a supplied document, rather than relying on superficial exposure, partial scanning, or inferred summaries. IVP addresses a foundational failure mode in AI-assisted work: the inability to reliably determine whether a system has meaningfully ingested a document prior to downstream reasoning, citation, or decision-making. Models routinely process documents shallowly, unevenly, or incompletely, producing fluent output that masks missing structure, omitted constraints, or hallucinated content. Self-reports of comprehension are not trustworthy, as models lack introspective access to…