Awarded for completing Safeguard Gold for Open Source Maintainers and passing its exam, demonstrating the ability to keep a volunteer maintained project's supply chain clean with the free Gold tooling, explain the precise difference between a signal and a certification, handle a report about your own project including a credible disagreement, publish and maintain provenance and a Software Bill of Materials on the free path, and describe the honest limits of any automated signal about a volunteer maintained project.
Certificates are designed to be checked, not just displayed.
The credential is valid for 12 months from issue. Its public page states the expiry date, and renewing means passing the current exam again — so the credential always reflects the current material.
