Evidence route
The kind of evidence a listing's results rest on, which decides which rubric rows can be answered at all.
A package read as text, a repository read at a commit, a remote endpoint that was only ever connected to, and a listing run in a sandbox are four different amounts of evidence. Some rows need a run, some need a maker's declaration, and some can be read.
Every row of the rubric is marked, for each route, as answerable, partly answerable or not. A listing shows a row its route cannot answer as not applicable, because a pass on a row nobody could check is a rubber stamp.
It is the difference between a result and a claim. Two listings can both show a clean row, and only one of them had evidence that could have shown otherwise.
Comparing two listings row by row without asking what each row rested on.
Related terms
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