Design if-verify command line tool

[jmcook1186]

User story

As a user I want to be able to re-execute a manifest and verify that the outputs are correctly reported. This is important for the transparency and integrity of manifests.

Rationale

We want impact assessments to be verifiable. We can make verification easy by providing a command line tool that will take an output file as an argument, replicate the environment and context defined in the file, re-execute it, and return a boolean true/false showing whether the generated outputs are identical to the one passed to the cli tool.

Implementation details

• create a design proposal document for the if-verify tool
• share design proposal with the team to approve or refine
• if approved, write up design as a specification that can be used to guide the build
• create new ticket for the actual build

Priority

3/5

Size

M

What does "done" look like?

Design spec exists and is approved by team

Deadline

tbc

[zanete]

proposing to include the design of this as part of the workflow of #638 and closing to remove noise