Read-Method Verification
If you cannot prove you read it, you did not read it.
Before claiming to understand an attachment or document, the mechanism for reading it must be verified. If the reading method is not confirmed, any output derived from it is unreliable. This rule applies to AI surfaces the same way it applies to humans - a summary of a file you never opened is not a reading, it is a guess.
DreamerOS extends this into every governance layer. The EDE Phase 0/1 flags input surfaces the system did not actually ingest. The Triple-I Integrity gate refuses to certify derivations where the source-read cannot be proven. DAIM post-checks flag when a response cites content that never entered the pipeline.
AI systems that claim to have read something they actually summarized from metadata produce plausible lies. Read-method verification is how we make that impossible inside our walls.