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Thanks Mateo, exactly the distinction I was aiming for. Treating authorization, execution, and outcome as separate guarantees is central to AgentGuard, especially at the MCP boundary. I really like your point about making the provenance chain a first-class invariant. That's a natural direction for future iterations.
This is a great perspective. I intentionally kept this iteration focused on the core extraction reliability loop, but the direction you're describing is very interesting. In particular, contract versioning, semantic predicates, coordinated healing budgets/circuit breakers, and an audit trail for contract changes could take this from extraction reliability toward a much broader data reliability layer. Definitely something I'd plan to explore in a future iteration. Really appreciate the thoughtful feedback!
Absolutely, it's a crucial part of robust PDF RAG, and I'll definitely test and experiment with tables, multi-column layouts, and extraction-order issues in future iterations. For the current M1 scope, though, I intentionally focused on learning and rigorously evaluating retrieval/reranking rather than PDF extraction complexity.
