A single-page explainer for people who will not read the build spec: how a
question becomes an answer, the four lanes and why they are separate, the four
tools the assistant may reach for, where the knowledge comes from, and what is
live against what is only built. Status snapshot as observed on the host,
21 August 2026.
Kept at the repository root beside the other narrative documents rather than in
docs/, which is gitignored and holds controlled plant documents. Listed in the
layout sections of README.md and the build spec so it is findable.
Note: it predates Phase 9 and so does not mention operator document upload,
withdrawal or pool curation. Its step table stops at 8.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
