BadgeMarkdown is the ready-to-paste README snippet, DERIVED for each response from this deployment's badge host and never stored — here it deep-links the OWNER's template import rather than one repository's.
Method is HOW the owner was proven, always against its ".github" control repository: "oauth" — an IAM-linked forge token showed admin or push on it; or "file" — a hanzo.json on its default branch carried this author's verify code. The "maintainer" shortcut is a per-repository attribution and never appears here. Omitted on a row written before the method was recorded.
OwnerURL is the claim key in canonical form — lowercased "host/owner" with NO repository segment, host ∈ {github.com, gitlab.com}. It covers every repository under that owner, so code with no claim of its own still earns; a per-repository claim outranks it. UNIQUE across every author: first proven claim wins.
Verified reports that ownership of the WHOLE owner was proven — against that owner's ".github" control repository, which is exactly as strong as a per-repository claim. Only a proven claim is written, so every row returned here is true.