Retain governed content

Core meaning

Capability purpose

Make content durably available without silently turning intake into permission for processing or use.

Meaningful outcome

A governed source object exists and can be identified, inspected, and acted on later.

Boundaries — includes

intake validation, source identity, owner association, origin, durable reference, lifecycle state, and result reporting.

Boundaries — excludes

semantic processing, derived outputs, context allocation, retrieval, generation, and presentation-specific file organization.

Terms and concepts

source object means the retained original or authoritative supplied representation.

Interaction Contract MLEs

Retain supplied content

Actor

An authorized owner, client, or ingestion process.

Command / intent

Retain supplied content under owner governance.

Current state

Content and available provenance are presented for intake.

Policies / invariants

Owner and source identity are explicit; retry behavior is deterministic; retention does not imply processing, allocation, or disclosure; failure is not reported as success.

Transition

Validate the request, preserve the content or durable reference, establish governed identity, and record the result.

Result

A retained source object and receipt, or a reasoned failure.

Events / effects

Success may trigger separately governed processing or organization.

Unknowns

Universal duplicate-detection and retention-period policies are not established.

Rules and defaults

Rules / invariants

• Later derivatives must not erase or masquerade as the source.
• Retention alone must not authorize a consumer to use the content.

Recommended defaults

• Preserve original bytes when feasible.
• Use an inbox-like initial state when no destination was selected.

Unknown / unresolved

• Whether deletion and retention periods belong here or in a separate lifecycle capability.

Statement provenance