Govern a derived-representation lifecycle

Core meaning

Capability purpose

Keep generated text, graph, vector, summary, index, and multimodal projections inspectable and governable after their production.

Meaningful outcome

Every retained representation has an identifiable source/version, representation identity, processing provenance, authority basis, lifecycle state, and replacement or deletion disposition.

Boundaries — includes

registry identity, source and source-version links, logical Core reference, representation type, processing profile/model/version, format or dimensions, confidence, sensitivity, consent/authorization basis, retention, physical reference, lifecycle state, replacement, rebuild, revocation, and deletion evidence.

Boundaries — excludes

producing the derivative, retaining the original source, defining provider technology, resolving graph entities globally, assembling retrieval context, and treating the representation as canonical meaning.

Terms and concepts

A derived representation is a source-linked projection such as a text chunk, extracted metadata, OCR output, summary, graph snapshot, semantic or multimodal vector, or retrieval index. Provider paths and payload keys are implementation metadata.

Interaction Contract MLEs

Reconcile a representation's lifecycle

Actor

An authorized processing, knowledge-maintenance, retrieval, retention, or deletion-governance process.

Command / intent

Register or change the governed lifecycle state of a retained derived representation.

Current state

The source/version and representation output or existing registry record are identifiable; applicable sensitivity, authorization, retention, and deletion rules are available.

Policies / invariants

The representation remains linked to its exact source/version; incompatible models, dimensions, modalities, formats, or semantic spaces retain distinct identities; a replacement does not silently erase the sole historical representation; non-authoritative and rebuildable status remain explicit; revocation and deletion follow source and consent lifecycle; physical location does not define canonical meaning.

Transition

Validate identity and provenance, register or reconcile metadata, apply the requested active/deprecated/superseded/rebuildable/deleted disposition, preserve replacement history, and record any failed or blocked cleanup.

Result

An inspectable lifecycle record with the representation's current status, provenance, replacement relation, and retention/deletion disposition, or a reasoned failure.

Events / effects

May trigger retrieval exclusion, rebuilding, index refresh, graph-resolution review, portability treatment, or governed deletion without performing the source transformation itself.

Unknowns

Universal equivalence rules, lifecycle vocabulary, retention periods, provider cleanup proofs, and cross-index atomicity are not established.

Rules and defaults

Rules / invariants

• A derived representation must never silently replace its source or become canonical truth.
• Representation identity must distinguish incompatible processing spaces.
• Excluded, revoked, stale, or deleted representations must fail closed in retrieval and downstream processing according to their disposition.

Recommended defaults

• Preserve an immutable source-local snapshot when global resolution could erase source-specific claims or ambiguity.
• Retain enough provenance to rebuild or explain the representation without making provider-specific keys canonical.

Unknown / unresolved

• See U98–U101.

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