Managing sources, knowledge and supporting evidence
Retain authorized sources and documents as reusable, traceable knowledge.
On this page
Keep the sources behind business decisions useful, attributable and retrievable. The planned outcome joins website evidence, documents, normalized knowledge and grounded answers without treating every raw artifact as public.
Register the evidence scope
Provide owned source references, approved URLs or documents, the purpose, permitted use and applicable workspace/resource grants. Source verification is a prerequisite, not blanket permission for unrestricted capture.
Exact-page capture, whole-site mapping, document normalization, indexing and analysis are separate work. Each should preserve its input identity and bounded scope.
Retain durable knowledge
Save source metadata, capture time, content/artifact references, parser or schema version, relationships and freshness. Grounded answers should point back to permitted evidence and distinguish observations from derived conclusions.
For example, a merchant specification document can support a product attribute while a conflicting page observation remains visible. A normalized file is not proof of external remediation or approval.
Read without hidden work
Retrieving saved evidence should not crawl, refresh, embed, index or repair data. Query-time model work, if needed, must be explicit. Raw HTML, provider payloads, embeddings and signed storage addresses require separate access/retention policy.
Availability
Business APIs are planned. User-owned knowledge records do not confer third-party copyright or redistribution rights. Preserve citations and unknowns before promoting evidence into catalogs, Stores, research or campaigns.