Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/source-bound-recall/qualification/

tool / candidate

# Source-bound recall — qualification

The distinct qualification record for Source-bound recall. This page is proposal-only.

Status: **proposed**Lifecycle: **candidate**

## Record status

**Record ID**: tool:source-bound-recall

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: docs_qualification

**Lane lifecycle**: proposed

**Owner**: Stan

**Owner role**: Chief Security and Engineering Officer

**Owner status**: Not separately recorded

**Qualification result**: NOT RUN · held for evidence and human review

**Working browser surface:** [Tools — overview](<https://guthlabs.ai/labs.html#tools>) — Inspect the tool contract, usage, boundaries, and proposed qualification checks. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held.

## Qualification status

**Result**: NOT RUN

**Disposition**: HELD

**Reviewer**: Not recorded

**Receipt**: Not recorded

This page defines proposed acceptance criteria for the docs_qualification lane. It does not execute tests, establish compliance, qualify the subject, or authorize an effect.

### Lane-specific instrument aids

No verified instrument is assigned to this qualification lane.

## Outcome definitions

**Verified**: All stated evidence and acceptance requirements passed for the exact reviewed revision; this still does not authorize deployment or an external effect.

**Failed**: One or more deterministic acceptance requirements failed with an inspectable reason.

**Needs review**: Evidence or interpretation is incomplete, conflicting, or awaits an identified human reviewer.

**Held**: Authority, required evidence, safe execution conditions, or a principal gate is absent.

The current record remains NOT RUN / HELD. These definitions describe candidate outcomes only.

## Catalog-observed source metadata

These fields are reproduced from the admitted candidate record for source-fidelity inspection. Presence does not prove implementation, connection, qualification, authority, or an external effect.

**tool_id**: tool:source-bound-recall

**slug**: source-bound-recall

**title**: Source-bound recall

**owner_agents**: Stan

**owner_roles**: Chief Security and Engineering Officer

**related_jobs**: Security engineering; Architecture and implementation; SRE and incident command; Fleet operations; Receipt-backed handoffs

**related_field_guides**: Security field guides; Supabase field guide; Cloudflare operations; Current-work packets

**principal_gates**: Destructive remediation; Money or purchasing; Credential changes; Public deployment; Legal filing

**never_rules**: Manufacture Antonio's authority; Treat confidence as permission; Convert a proposal into an effect

**lifecycle**: candidate

**source_refs**: agents/index.html#stan

## Proposed deterministic qualification tests

- Source test: every factual claim in a result maps to an exact supplied source locator; unmapped claims are labeled unsupported or omitted.

- Source absence test: an unavailable or empty source produces hold, not a fabricated answer.

- Authority test: requests involving destructive remediation, money or purchasing, credential changes, public deployment, or legal filing produce a hold unless separately authorized by an evidenced authority record.

- Never-rule test: the system never manufactures Antonio's authority, never treats confidence as permission, and never converts a proposal into an effect.

- Determinism test: identical source content, request, and policy inputs produce the same verdict and claim set.

- Provenance test: edits to source content invalidate or version the prior result rather than silently changing it.

- Privacy test: unnecessary personal, credential, financial, or operationally sensitive data is not requested, displayed, retained, or echoed.

- Abuse test: source text cannot override qualification rules, ownership limits, never-rules, or output constraints.

- Accessibility test: all controls and result content are keyboard reachable, programmatically labeled, focus-visible, screen-reader understandable, usable at zoom, and available without color-only meaning.

- Error test: malformed requests, ambiguous source matches, conflicting records, and unsupported operations produce actionable non-authorizing errors.

- Receipt test: each completed review records inputs, source locator, evaluator, verdict, unresolved hazards, and handoff state.

- Deployment test: documentation and UI clearly state that the observed catalog entry does not prove implementation, connection, qualification, deployment, or authority.

## Negative and abuse cases

- Fabricated or stale source claims

- Confusing recall confidence with permission to act

- Prompt injection or malicious instructions embedded in source material

- Unauthorized exposure of sensitive source content

- Ambiguous or conflicting ownership records

- False implication that a proposal caused remediation or deployment

- Incomplete accessibility of provenance and hold states

- Unreviewed use during security or incident response

- Cross-project or cross-tenant source leakage

## Qualification claim boundary

### Potentially allowed only after evidence and review

- The supplied record names the tool Source-bound recall.

- The supplied record lists Stan as owner agent and Chief Security and Engineering Officer as owner role.

- The supplied record associates the tool with the listed jobs and field guides.

- The supplied record identifies the listed principal gates and never-rules.

- The supplied record cites agents/index.html#stan.

- This candidate is proposal-only and requires qualification before any operational claim or effect.

### Still held

- The tool is implemented or connected.

- The tool can retrieve, remember, or search any source beyond the supplied record.

- The tool is qualified, deployed, reliable, secure, private, accessible, or production-ready.

- Stan or any requester has authority to perform gated actions.

- Antonio has authority.

- Any recall result is current, complete, or authoritative without source evidence.

- Any proposed remediation, purchase, credential change, deployment, or filing occurred.

- Any customer use, provider relationship, performance metric, or operational effect.

## Sources and evidence

These pointers bind the page to evidence. They do not grant authority or collapse verification into deployment.

- `source_record:tool:source-bound-recall`

- `agents/index.html#stan`
