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Integrity, certifications & Vault health

A vault is only worth having if you can prove nothing in it has changed. Realm doesn't just store your closed Realms — it continuously verifies they're still intact, keeps a certification for each record, and rolls it all up into a Vault health view. This is the proof-and-integrity side of the Vault.

Integrity verification

On a schedule (and on demand), Realm re-checks every document in every vaulted Realm and confirms four things:

  • The document still exists exactly where it was stored.
  • It's still locked against changes.
  • Its retention date hasn't been shortened below what was set at vault time.
  • Its contents still match the fingerprint recorded when it was sealed.

Each check is written down as evidence and rolls an integrity status onto the document and the record. A passing record is proof the archive hasn't drifted; a failing one raises a notification to the record's agent and the person who vaulted it, so it gets looked at right away.

The evidence is append-only — every check writes a new entry, and Realm never edits or erases a past one. That's what makes the integrity trail trustworthy: it's a growing record of "we checked, here's what we found," not a single status that could be quietly rewritten.

Certifications

Each vaulted Realm has a Certifications view — the record's proof of integrity, showing that its documents were sealed and have verified clean since. Open it from any record in All Records. It's what you point to when someone needs assurance that a closed transaction's file is authentic and unaltered.

Vault health

Vault health is the archive-wide rollup: the state of your vaulted records at a glance, so a broker can confirm the whole vault is sound rather than checking records one by one. If anything needs attention — a failed integrity check, a record that couldn't be verified — this is where it surfaces.

A record can be placed under legal hold, which extends its retention so it can't age out while it may be needed (litigation, an audit, a dispute). A held record shows a legal-hold badge in All Records and is kept until the hold is lifted.

Reminders to vault

The nudge that reminds your brokerage to vault a finished-but-not-yet- vaulted Realm is described under Vault overview and Vaulting a Realm. It's the companion to the checks on this page: one makes sure finished Realms get into the vault, the other makes sure they stay trustworthy once they're there.