Summary

The inbox is the bundle's append-only frontier. Findings enter here first — never directly into a synthesis holder — and are later distilled into concepts.

Requirements

1. One finding per concept. Filename YYYY-MM-DD-<short-slug>.md (event or retrieval date).
2. Mandatory metadata in frontmatter: published, retrieved, as_of, canonical URLs, and a snapshot note (quote or hash) so a silently revised page cannot masquerade as the version reasoned from.
3. stale_after is required. Stale items flip to status: deprecated — never deleted, never edited in place.
4. sources[] carries the external references, with the interest named for any partisan or state source.

Body shape

• # Summary — what was found, in 2–4 sentences
• # Findings — the labelled findings (documented / inferred / contested)
• # Distillation Hooks — which holders this should feed, as explicit links

Provenance rules

• Never overwrite a published inbox concept; append a dated # Amendment section.
• An inbox concept is evidence for distillation only — it confers no stable status on any synthesis concept that cites it.

Links

• Bundle charter
• Claim Verification Playbook

Footnotes

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1. Bundle charter — the news-intake policy these rules implement. ↩