REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE 02 / 09
Answers must be traceable to authority.
Rights-aware ingestion, bounded retrieval and source-linked evaluation.
Explore a failure mode ↘SYSTEM BOUNDARIES
Where responsibility changes.
01Authority registry→
02Ingestion→
03Bounded retrieval→
04Evaluation✓
Four design boundaries. The specific technology stack, data rights and operating model depend on the real environment.
DESIGN EXERCISE / FAILURE LAB
What happens when
the assumption breaks?
Choose a realistic failure condition to inspect a defensible response and the verification evidence it would require.
RESPONSE CONTRACT01 / 02
Architecture response
Mark it stale or decline unsupported conclusions.
HOW TO VERIFY
Freshness expiry and citation replay.
TRADE-OFF TO ACCEPT
Stronger evidence gates can increase safe refusals.
BACK TO PRACTICE