WFGY/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/Retrieval/checklists/traceability_gate.md

Traceability Gate Checklist

Purpose: enforce cite then explain with a minimal, verifiable payload contract.

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Required fields per snippet

• snippet_id unique within the corpus
• section_id stable anchor for the document
• source_url resolvable or a content hash if private
• offsets byte or char range within the source
• tokens token range used by the model

Contract details:
Retrieval traceability · Data contracts

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Schema example

{
  "snippet_id": "sn_9f3a",
  "section_id": "sec_2.3_hydraulics",
  "source_url": "https://example.org/handbook/2024/chap2#sec-3",
  "offsets": {"start": 18342, "end": 18897},
  "tokens": {"start": 1205, "end": 1248}
}

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Gate checks

• Each answer references at least one snippet with all required fields.
• Offsets resolve back to exactly the cited text.
• Section anchors stable across builds. Hash or ID diff is logged.
• Duplicate or near duplicate snippets collapsed before ranking.
• Formatter and export steps do not rename required fields.
• On failure, publish is blocked and the pipeline returns a structured error.

Refs: Duplication and near duplicate collapse

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Acceptance targets

• 100 percent of published answers pass the schema check.
• For the gold set, human spot check of 20 answers finds zero broken citations.
• ΔS(question, cited_snippet) ≤ 0.45 on average.

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Minimal policy snippet

Policy:
- Answer only after citing snippets with {snippet_id, section_id, source_url, offsets, tokens}.
- If no snippet qualifies, return "insufficient evidence" with the top 3 candidate snippets and exit.

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TXT OS (plain-text OS)	TXTOS.txt	1️⃣ Download · 2️⃣ Paste into any LLM chat · 3️⃣ Type “hello world” — OS boots instantly

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