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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughBadge awards can include optional inline or referenced extension payloads. Badge definitions can declare permitted extension types and whether each type is required. Schemas, tests, and documentation describe payload forms, limits, and consumer validation requirements. ChangesBadge extensions
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61-64: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDocument the atomic-array design or change the entry shape.
The Lexicon style guide recommends object entries when array items may need additional context.
extensionTypesuses atomic strings, and its description does not document why this design is intentional. Exact$typematching does not require atomic items; an object field could still store the exact identifier.Add a short rationale for this deviation to the JSON, or change the entries to objects.
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- Line 201: In ERD.puml, remove the badgeExtension entity and its relationship
to badgeAward because publisher-defined extensions have no corresponding lexicon
JSON. Move the extension description into a note attached to badgeAward,
preserving the inline-object or strong-reference and extensionTypes details.
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Review comments at @lexicons/app/certified/badge/definition.json:
- Around line 61-64: Add a brief rationale to the extensionTypes array
documentation explaining why its entries intentionally remain atomic strings
rather than objects; keep the existing string item shape and exact $type
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An award lacking a required extension is invalid. Extensions of undeclared types are outside the badge's contract and do not invalidate the award. Omitted and empty extensionTypes both declare no extensions.
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Proposal: keep the award a pure approval claim, and give Good Market's data its own recordI'd park this PR and meet Good Market's needs another way:
What this PR gets rightIf awards carry extensions, declaring them on the definition is the right call. Issuing tools know what to collect, and consumers know what to render before any award exists. That's a real improvement over a bare open union, and the Limits section is honest about what validation can't enforce. Why it doesn't fit Good Market's case1. Sector and focus are classifications, and we already ship a classification primitive. The example stores them as free strings inside a Good Market-namespaced object. That works for Good Market's own map, but not across networks. If People and Planet First ships its own 2. 3. The rest of Good Market's data changes, and an award shouldn't. The enterprise's The proposal:
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| Record | Repo | Holds |
|---|---|---|
actor.profile + actor.organization |
enterprise | its own name, logo, description, locations, legal name |
badge.award (Good Market Approved) |
Good Market | the approval, validFrom / validUntil |
graph.profileAssertion (new) |
Good Market | approved name, paragraph, cleaned logo, sector and focus tags, provenance |
vocab.tag |
Good Market | its sector and focus terms |
Rules
- Bounded scope. Anything an organization can say about itself in
actor.profileoractor.organization, another account can assert here, with the same field names and shapes, plustags. Judgments stay out: approval is a badge, quality is an evaluation. subjectis a DID string, likegraph.follow. DIDs only for now; it can widen to a union later.- Organizations only. A third party's public record about a person is personal data (GDPR). Lexicon validation can't check this, so indexers require the subject to have an
actor.organizationrecord. - Never about yourself. Indexers ignore records whose
subjectis the repo's own DID. - Record key
any, set to the subject's DID. One assertion per author per subject, and a directgetRecordfor anyone who knows both DIDs. This differs from thetidkeys of its siblings, and the description says so.
Fields (v1: what Good Market uses now)
| Field | Mirrors | Type | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
subject |
— | string, format: did |
required |
displayName |
actor.profile |
string, 64 graphemes | approved name |
description |
actor.profile |
string, 256 graphemes | short summary |
longDescription |
actor.organization |
same union | profile paragraph (descriptionString, links as facets) |
logo |
actor.organization |
#uri | #smallImage |
cleaned display logo; blob preferred |
tags |
— | strongRef[] → vocab.tag, max 20 |
sector and focus; exactly the attachment.tags semantics |
derivations |
— | #derivation[] |
which fields derive from the subject's own, and from what |
createdAt |
— | datetime | required |
signatures |
— | ref | as on every Certified record |
#derivation: field (the field in this record), source (at-uri of the subject's record, or an https URL off-protocol), sourceCid (CID of the original image; omitted for text, since a record's CID changes on any edit), transform (short note, e.g. "background removed, cropped"). A field that isn't listed was originated by the author, so consumers can filter on provenance without every field being wrapped in an object.
Further actor.profile / actor.organization fields can be added later, additively, with the same name and shape. Never mirrored: visibility (the subject's own choice), publicEmail (only the organization should publish its contact details), pronouns.
Example record
{
"$type": "app.certified.graph.profileAssertion",
"subject": "did:plc:<enterprise>",
"displayName": "Acme Bakery",
"longDescription": {
"$type": "org.hypercerts.defs#descriptionString",
"value": "Acme Bakery is …"
},
"logo": {
"$type": "org.hypercerts.defs#smallImage",
"image": { "$type": "blob", "ref": { "$link": "bafkrei…" }, "mimeType": "image/png", "size": 48213 }
},
"tags": [
{ "uri": "at://did:plc:<good-market>/org.hypercerts.vocab.tag/sector.food", "cid": "bafyrei…" },
{ "uri": "at://did:plc:<good-market>/org.hypercerts.vocab.tag/focus.fair-trade", "cid": "bafyrei…" }
],
"derivations": [
{
"field": "logo",
"source": "at://did:plc:<enterprise>/app.certified.actor.organization/self",
"sourceCid": "bafkrei…",
"transform": "background removed, cropped"
}
],
"createdAt": "2026-10-02T12:00:00Z"
}All identifiers are placeholders.
sourceCid also gives Good Market its curation trigger: when the enterprise's current logo CID differs from it, there's a new logo to clean. No email notification needed.
How apps read it
Guidance in the description, not lexicon rules:
- Show assertions only from authors you trust. It's the same rule
app.bsky.graph.verificationstates. - Default to the subject's own profile. A directory may choose an author's version instead, and attributes it ("as listed by Good Market"). Never present an assertion as the subject's own statement.
- Expect several. Good Market, People and Planet First and Social Enterprise UK can each assert about the same enterprise; each app chooses whose to show.
Retraction and disputes
- Retraction: the author deletes the record, the same rule feat(lexicons): organization legalName/logo/publicEmail/additionalLocations; badge.award validity window #258 uses for revoking a badge.
- Disputes (later, additive): a subject-written response record like
badge.response, which can name the fields it disputes. - If reputational tags ever appear ("high-risk", "political"), move them to one record per tag, i.e. the deferred role assertion record from the geospatial design, so each can be disputed or expire on its own.
Naming
profileAssertion, because:
- The head noun is assertion, so it reads as a claim about a profile, not as an alternative profile.
- It follows the qualifier-then-head pattern of
entityFollowandcontributorInformation. - It forms a family with the deferred role assertion record.
I'd keep bare graph.assertion in reserve for a generic claim record, should we ever build one. In Open Badges 2.0, a bare "Assertion" is a badge award, which is exactly what this record is not.
Considered and rejected: directory.listing (marketplace meaning, one UI), curation.profile (implies vetting the record can't guarantee), thirdPartyProfile, assertedProfile / assertedAttributes (read as an alternative profile).
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One more idea, separate from the proposal above: a It would link the standard or policy behind a badge, for example Good Market's approval criteria, People and Planet First's verification standard, or Ma Earth's verification policy. This came up in the data interop discussion: certification records should be able to point to the standards documents behind them. A possible shape is a union of This might be useful, but we'll add it only when someone actually uses it. Until then, the criteria text fits in the definition's |
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@holkexyz, your proposal looks kind of good actually! See below.. Worked example: sector and focus as a
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Summary
Two optional fields on the existing badge lexicons:
app.certified.badge.award.extensions: project-defined typed data attached to an award, inline or by strong reference.app.certified.badge.definition.extensionTypes: the extension types that belong to this badge, as{ type, required }entries.Projects can attach their own data to badges without adding project-specific fields to the shared schema.
The argument: a badge definition is a type
A badge definition is the type of its awards. Every "Good Market Approved" award shares the definition's title, icon, description and allowed issuers. That is what makes it the same badge.
Extension data is part of that type in the same way. If Good Market Approved carries sector and focus classifications, that is a property of the badge, not of one issuance. So the definition is where it is declared.
Without
extensionTypes, two awards of the same badge can carry unrelated payloads, and a consumer cannot tell which one is the badge's data and which is something an issuer happened to attach. The only way to learn a badge's data shape would be to sample its awards and guess.Why this differs from post embeds
Open unions such as Bluesky post embeds are open by design: the author of each post decides what to attach, and each client renders what it understands. No party defines what a post "is".
A badge has such a party. The definition author decides what the badge is, and issuers only instantiate it. An open union with no declaration would hand that decision to each issuer, one award at a time.
The union on the award stays open, so any project can bring its own types. The definition narrows it for one badge.
Example: Good Market Approved
Good Market owns a small schema in its own namespace:
The definition declares it, and marks it required:
{ "$type": "app.certified.badge.definition", "badgeType": "certification", "title": "Good Market Approved", "allowedIssuers": [{ "did": "did:plc:ewvi7nxzyoun6zhxrhs64oiz" }], "extensionTypes": [ { "type": "org.example.goodmarket.defs#approvalMetadata", "required": true } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-02T12:00:00Z" }An award carries it:
{ "$type": "app.certified.badge.award", "badge": { "uri": "at://did:plc:ewvi7nxzyoun6zhxrhs64oiz/app.certified.badge.definition/3k2abc", "cid": "bafyrei..." }, "subject": { "$type": "app.certified.defs#did", "did": "did:plc:klldzjf4rzhskytomj64nvil" }, "extensions": [ { "$type": "org.example.goodmarket.defs#approvalMetadata", "sectors": ["Agriculture", "Food"], "focus": ["Regenerative Agriculture", "Fair Trade"] } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-02T12:05:00Z" }All identifiers and values are illustrative. No Good Market lexicon is published by this PR.
The payload can instead live in its own record and be referenced with a
com.atproto.repo.strongRef. The definition then lists the record NSID (org.example.goodmarket.approvalMetadata). This is the same inline-or-reference choice already used foraward.subject. Full examples are in the badge extension guide.Semantics
Two rules, applied with the definition version the award references:
Details:
extensionTypesor leaving it empty declares no extensions.$type, a strong reference by the collection NSID in its AT-URI.Limits
allowedIssuers, this is a cross-record rule that applications and indexers enforce. This PR adds no SDK or indexer enforcement.Included
SCHEMAS.md, and the ERD source. The ERD images are not regenerated in the latest commit, so their note text is slightly out of date.npm run checkpasses (275 tests across 19 files).npm run style:checkpasses with one new informational suggestion for the intentionally open union.Summary by CodeRabbit