Phosra Spec / Capability
PCSS v1.0 — DraftPhosra Herald
Parent-facing notifications, reports, and alerts.
What Herald does
One parent-facing channel for every notification duty in child-safety law.
Every law that requires parental notification — VA SB 854 (notification curfew), NY SAFE for Kids (account creation alerts), MN HF 2 (usage timer notifications), TN HB 1891 (consent change alerts), the Surgeon General’s social-media warning labels (CA SB 976), FTC ECEC reporting — converges on the same primitive: send the parent the right message at the right time, on the right channel.
Herald is the canonical parent-facing notification layer. It batches and prioritizes alerts, respects quiet hours and curfews, deduplicates across platforms (one alert about “Suzy installed TikTok” — not five), surfaces the Surgeon General warning when required, and routes through the parent’s preferred channel (push, SMS, email, in-app).
Parents stop being notification-bombed by every individual platform. Regulators get a single audit-trail showing every alert was delivered. Phosra’s Notary captures the proof of delivery.
How partners plug in
Herald is a socket. Events flow in. Delivered alerts flow out.
These are the downstream delivery providers and curriculum partners Herald routes through — either shipping today, in conversation with a partner, or pending an upstream API.
Standards & laws
What Herald does for each statute.
- KOSA (notification duties) — surfaces every algorithmic exposure event for parental review.
- VA SB 854 — enforces notification curfew during configured quiet hours.
- NY SAFE for Kids — alerts parents on account-creation and addictive-feed exposure.
- MN HF 2 (usage timer) — surfaces real-time usage and remaining-time alerts.
- TN HB 1891 — sends parent alerts on consent changes and high-risk events.
- CA SB 976 (Surgeon General Warning Labels) — injects the social-media warning interstitial every 30 minutes.
- FTC Disney Settlement / ECEC reporting — produces the per-event delivery confirmation log.
Conformance
Adopter Tier 1 certification.
To ship Herald-conformance for an Adopter Tier 1 certification, your implementation must pass the Herald suite. Test count is [draft] coming Q3 2026. The suite covers cross-platform deduplication, quiet-hours and curfew honoring, channel-routing correctness, and proof-of-delivery emission to Notary.
We are co-authoring the suite with our design partners. If you want a seat at the table while the bar is being set, reach out.
Rule list
The 8 rules Herald ships
Every rule below is implemented by this capability. Pulled directly from the rule registry.
- Educational Credit
- Activity Monitoring — Provides parental visibility into app usage, content accessed, and online activity patterns.
- Monitoring Alerts
- Usage Timer — Sends configurable screen time alerts and enforces daily usage limits across platforms.
- Parental Event Notification
- Screen Time Report
- Social Media Warning Label Render
- Digital Literacy Curriculum Link