Claims-only submission
Submitting an item without an external hash so the claims themselves are the timestamped content of record; requires a description of at least 32 characters or non-empty metadata, and the JCS-encoded claims must fit the team billing owner's per-plan byte budget (256 B Free up to 16 KB Enterprise).
Overview
When you submit an item you either supply your own hash of external content (hash-first submission) or omit the hash, in which case the claims you submit are themselves the content of record. A claims-only submission must be meaningful: it needs either a description of at least 32 characters or non-empty metadata. Its whole claims object, canonicalized with JCS, must also fit a per-plan byte budget checked against the team billing owner’s effective limit: 256 bytes on Free, 1 KB on Starter, 4 KB on Pro, and 16 KB on Enterprise. Hash-first submissions are not constrained by this budget, and every tier’s budget is above zero, so the mode is available on all tiers. See plans, limits, and entitlements for the budget table and the item’s composite fingerprint for how the submitted claims are hashed.