examples/knowledge-freshness-loop.json

{
  "name": "Knowledge freshness loop",
  "objective": "Keep an agent retrieval corpus current, attributable, policy-compliant, and measurably useful before atomic promotion.",
  "trigger": {
    "type": "scheduled",
    "cadence_or_event": "Daily refresh of changed or expired sources in the approved registry."
  },
  "intake": {
    "sources": ["approved source registry", "last accepted manifest", "changed documents", "retrieval evaluation set", "access and retention policy"],
    "selection_rule": "Fetch only approved sources whose checksum changed, freshness window expired, or deletion status changed."
  },
  "workspace": {
    "isolation": "Versioned candidate corpus and index separate from production.",
    "allowed_actions": ["fetch approved sources", "parse and deduplicate content", "build a candidate index", "run retrieval and leakage evaluations", "write a promotion receipt"],
    "disallowed_actions": ["add unapproved domains", "change source access policy", "write directly to production", "retain revoked content"]
  },
  "context": {
    "required_files": ["source registry", "freshness policy", "data classification policy", "retrieval evaluation set"],
    "runtime_sources": ["source checksums", "fetch and parse logs", "candidate manifest", "retrieval and grounded-answer metrics"]
  },
  "agents": [
    {
      "role": "Source monitor",
      "responsibility": "Detect additions, changes, removals, and expired freshness windows."
    },
    {
      "role": "Curator",
      "responsibility": "Resolve authority, scope, duplicates, metadata, and quarantine decisions."
    },
    {
      "role": "Indexer",
      "responsibility": "Build a versioned candidate corpus and retrieval index."
    },
    {
      "role": "Evaluator",
      "responsibility": "Gate freshness, provenance, retrieval quality, grounded answers, and sensitive-data leakage."
    }
  ],
  "verification": {
    "gates": ["every item maps to an approved canonical source", "required sources meet freshness windows and removals are tombstoned", "retrieval and grounded-answer quality meet baseline", "sensitive or revoked content is absent", "promotion is atomic and reversible"],
    "receipts": ["source manifest diff", "checksums and fetch times", "parser and index versions", "evaluation results", "promotion or quarantine decision"]
  },
  "state": {
    "artifacts": ["accepted source manifest", "versioned index", "tombstone ledger", "refresh receipt", "rollback pointer"],
    "update_rule": "Persist provenance, access class, checksum, parser version, evaluation results, exceptions, and promotion status for every changed source."
  },
  "budget": {
    "max_retries": 2,
    "max_runtime_minutes": 120
  },
  "escalation": {
    "conditions": ["authoritative sources conflict", "access policy changes", "sensitive data is detected", "parser corruption affects coverage", "freshness and retrieval quality trade off"],
    "destination": "Knowledge owner, data steward, or security reviewer"
  },
  "exit": {
    "success": "The versioned candidate passes provenance, freshness, policy, and retrieval gates and is promoted atomically.",
    "stop_without_success": "No sources changed, a hard gate fails, the budget is exhausted, or owner judgment is required."
  }
}