D139 - The HUD shows a value or unknown, and is screen-only

Status: decided Date: 2026-09-26

The status line shows each system fact (network, firmware, generation, memory, disk and others) as a value read through a confirmed signature, as present-but-unwired, or as unknown. The fields are never written into the graded report as machine provenance. A build with no UI (OBS_NO_UI, the payload) gathers none of them.

Why: an unknown field is a finding about the platform; a fabricated one is the failure the project exists to expose. The probe cannot certify its own machine (D108). Gathering status in a headless payload touches subsystems it has not set up.

Rejected: placeholder numbers. Guessed structure reads for fields without a confirmed signature.