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Earned by coverage, signed by math
GenBodha credentials are issued automatically from what you actually do: graded labs across your discipline’s skill graph. They are AI-assisted and lab-graded — there is no proctored exam or live defense. Each credential is cryptographically signed and verifiable in seconds, and states its own method, so a reviewer always knows exactly what it certifies.
What it is
Evidence that you completed graded, hands-on labs covering a measured share of a discipline’s skills, with AI assistance available throughout.
What it is not
A proctored exam, a timed test, or a substitute for an interview. It certifies coverage and applied practice — not unassisted recall.
The ladder
Foundational
Shareable nowPassed graded labs covering at least 25% of the discipline's skill graph.
Associate
Shareable now~45% of the skill graph, with at least one passed lab in every skill area.
Advanced (Lab Proficiency)
Held — verification pending80%+ of the skill graph, every area ≥50% — AI-assisted lab work, not a proctored exam.
Distinguished
Rare — cross-disciplineProfessional or higher across two or more disciplines, with sustained activity.
Tiers are per-discipline (except Distinguished, which is cross-discipline). You can hold different tiers in different disciplines at the same time. “Coverage” is the share of a discipline’s skill graph you’ve reached with passed, distinct graded labs.
Foundational
A verified on-ramp. You’ve passed enough graded labs to cover at least a quarter of the discipline’s skill graph — not yet broad coverage, but a real, signed start.
Associate
Demonstrated breadth, not just depth in one corner of the discipline.
Professional
Trained across the discipline, no weak pillars. This is what an employer should read as “broadly trained on the curriculum.”
Advanced (Lab Proficiency)
The top skill-graph tier: near-complete coverage with real breadth in every area. Earned over AI-assisted, lab-graded work — deliberately not called “Expert,” because there is no proctored exam behind it.
Distinguished
Breadth across fields. Rare by design.
How your credential is signed
Every graded lab you pass becomes a signed entry in your evidence record. When your coverage of a discipline’s skill graph crosses a tier threshold, our promotion service automatically issues a W3C Verifiable Credential — which also records its own method (AI-assisted, lab-graded, no live defense) so the claim is never ambiguous.
The credential is signed with an Ed25519 key held in Google Cloud KMS. We rotate the key annually and publish the matching public key at genbodha.ai/.well-known/did.json. No human ever “grants” you a tier.
How verifiers check it
A recruiter, ATS, or LinkedIn integration pastes your credential URL or JSON into our verifier widget — or runs the verification themselves using any standards-compliant W3C VC library.
- They fetch our public key once from
/.well-known/did.json. - They verify the signature locally — no call to our servers needed.
- They check the revocation bitstring (the only call to us during the entire verification), or hit
/api/credentials/{id}/verifyfor a one-shot active/expired/revoked answer. - They get a yes/no in under 2 seconds.
If we tampered with the credential, the math fails. If you tampered with it, the math fails. That’s the point.
Why credentials expire in place
Skill-graph credentials are valid for 24 months. GenAI skills move fast, so coverage is re-checked rather than assumed permanent — a credential reflects what you can do now, not five years ago.
This is a feature, not a bug: it protects the signal value over time. A 5-year-old “Professional in AI Agent Engineering” credential would mean something very different from a current one. The 24-month window keeps the credential honest about the present.Where to next
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