Core meaning
- Capability purpose
- Prevent raw or weakly understood material from silently becoming canonical knowledge, retrieval context, profile implications, or owner-facing History.
- Meaningful outcome
- A source or bounded subset has an explicit promotion state, evidence, authority basis, and allowed next processing scope.
- Boundaries — includes
- parked, analyzed, mapped, enriched, and History-included dispositions; baseline-versus-deep processing distinction; confidence; cost/depth boundary; exclusion; and promotion provenance.
- Boundaries — excludes
- retaining the original, executing every mapping/enrichment step, deciding domain-specific proposals, and authorizing an ingestion batch.
- Terms and concepts
promotion changes how source material may participate in Core; it does not erase source identity.
Interaction Contract MLEs
- Actor
- An authorized owner, source-governance agent, or intake workflow acting within policy.
- Command / intent
- Advance, hold, exclude, or reverse a source-material promotion state.
- Current state
- Retained source material and its current disposition, evidence, and applicable authority exist.
- Policies / invariants
- Basic mapping and deeper enrichment remain distinct; promotion is staged and attributable; source provenance remains intact; History inclusion is explicit; depth must not silently exceed authority or budget.
- Transition
- Evaluate evidence and authority, then record the new promotion state and permitted next actions.
- Result
- A durable source-promotion disposition with rationale and scope.
- Events / effects
- May enable mapping, enrichment, retrieval eligibility, proposals, summaries, or History compilation.
- Unknowns
- Universal confidence and materiality thresholds are not established.
Rules and defaults
Rules / invariants
- Imported material must not silently become profile truth or public/shared information.
- Whole sources must not be bulk-promoted into owner-facing History merely because they were imported.
Recommended defaults
- Permit baseline identity and timestamp mapping more readily than inferential or costly enrichment.
Unknown / unresolved
- Source-specific trust and automation profiles require separate governance definitions.
Statement provenance
| Statement | Semantic class | Evidence status | Source / note |
|---|
| Source material advances through explicit stages, with deeper processing and History inclusion separately governed. | rule/invariant | sourced | C10. |