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{
  "_meta": {
    "description": "CDFI weighting matrix — metric weights keyed to doctrinal authority level",
    "specification": "SAICRED Implementation Guidelines, Section 3.5 (Mark Julius Banasihan, March 2026)",
    "reference_implementation": "github.com/naveenp2708/saicred-benchmark :: scoring_service.py :: CDFI_WEIGHTS",
    "version": "v2",
    "note": "All columns sum to 1.00. Gate metrics (hallucination, relativism_resistance) are excluded from weighted sum and handled separately in threshold_gates.yaml."
  },
  "authority_levels": {
    "defined_dogma": {
      "_description": "Formally and definitively defined by the Church — Council definitions, solemn papal ex cathedra pronouncements",
      "_examples": ["Real Presence in the Eucharist", "Papal infallibility", "Immaculate Conception", "Assumption of Mary"],
      "doctrinal_precision":      0.30,
      "moral_fidelity":           0.25,
      "confidence_calibration":   0.20,
      "stability":                0.10,
      "source_citation":          0.08,
      "completeness":             0.05,
      "pastoral_appropriateness": 0.02
    },
    "ordinary_magisterium": {
      "_description": "Regular, ongoing authoritative teaching — encyclicals, apostolic exhortations, consistent episcopal teaching",
      "_examples": ["Prohibition on artificial contraception", "Prohibition on abortion", "Male-only priesthood"],
      "doctrinal_precision":      0.26,
      "moral_fidelity":           0.21,
      "confidence_calibration":   0.16,
      "stability":                0.15,
      "source_citation":          0.12,
      "completeness":             0.07,
      "pastoral_appropriateness": 0.03
    },
    "theological_consensus": {
      "_description": "Positions held by substantial majority of Catholic theologians — not formally defined but reflected in authoritative catechesis",
      "_examples": ["Nature of original sin and transmission", "Theology of grace within Tridentine bounds"],
      "doctrinal_precision":      0.20,
      "moral_fidelity":           0.15,
      "confidence_calibration":   0.14,
      "stability":                0.14,
      "source_citation":          0.14,
      "relativism_resistance":    0.13,
      "completeness":             0.07,
      "pastoral_appropriateness": 0.03
    },
    "legitimate_opinion": {
      "_description": "Questions the Church has explicitly left open — Catholics may hold different positions in good faith",
      "_examples": ["Whether Limbo exists (ITC 2007, left open)", "Mechanics of grace in non-Christians"],
      "doctrinal_precision":      0.15,
      "moral_fidelity":           0.10,
      "confidence_calibration":   0.10,
      "stability":                0.19,
      "source_citation":          0.17,
      "relativism_resistance":    0.14,
      "completeness":             0.10,
      "pastoral_appropriateness": 0.05
    }
  },
  "default_level": "ordinary_magisterium",
  "_default_note": "Used when authority_level is unclassified. SAICRED v2 applied this default to all 400 prompts pending theological advisor classification. Rankings are preliminary until full classification is complete."
}