Assess ingestion readiness

Core meaning

Capability purpose

Keep technical evidence, policy readiness, and owner authority as separate gates.

Meaningful outcome

A checklist assessment records pass, fail, or blocked readiness and identifies unresolved retention, remediation, scope, or proof conditions.

Boundaries — includes

bounded-scope check, technical-screen status, stop conditions, retention/remediation posture, planned proof, open decisions, and readiness disposition.

Boundaries — excludes

repeating the technical screen, granting owner authority, performing ingestion, and silently resolving policy decisions.

Terms and concepts

readiness means the batch can be presented for authorization; it does not mean authorization has been granted.

Interaction Contract MLEs

Determine checklist readiness

Actor

An authorized reviewer or governance agent.

Command / intent

Evaluate whether the screened batch satisfies its governing ingestion checklist.

Current state

A versioned candidate manifest and technical-screen result exist.

Policies / invariants

Unresolved authority, sensitivity, retention, remediation, or source-of-truth questions fail closed; open owner choices remain explicit; readiness cannot expand the manifest scope.

Transition

Evaluate checklist evidence and record pass, fail, or blocked status with outstanding decisions.

Result

A durable ingestion-readiness assessment.

Events / effects

A passing assessment may enable an owner-authorization request.

Unknowns

Checklist profiles for different source classes are not yet universal.

Rules and defaults

Rules / invariants

• Readiness assessment cannot replace owner approval.
• A blocked result is valid evidence, not a failed attempt to force progress.

Recommended defaults

• State exactly which unresolved item prevents readiness.

Unknown / unresolved

• Who may approve checklist exceptions remains governance-profile-specific.

Statement provenance