The explicit conflict state is useful, especially because a procedure and a temporary correction can have different authority without either file being newer. I would make the precedence rule itself versioned and include its version in the answer audit record. Otherwise the same source set can produce a different decision after an administrative rule change, with no document revision to explain it.
A regression fixture could hold the documents constant and change only the precedence policy. The expected outcome should change deliberately, and a historical answer should remain explainable under the policy used at that time. That extends the source register into reproducible decision provenance.
Ahmet Özel
AI Engineer. Computer Vision, RAG and LLM agents.
The explicit conflict state is useful, especially because a procedure and a temporary correction can have different authority without either file being newer. I would make the precedence rule itself versioned and include its version in the answer audit record. Otherwise the same source set can produce a different decision after an administrative rule change, with no document revision to explain it.
A regression fixture could hold the documents constant and change only the precedence policy. The expected outcome should change deliberately, and a historical answer should remain explainable under the policy used at that time. That extends the source register into reproducible decision provenance.