Technical overview
Implementation model for shells, packs, intake channels, workflows, policy overlays, integrations, evaluation gates, and governed execution.
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Security and governance controls for multi-channel intake, policy-driven automation, and auditable execution.
Platform architecture
- Channel adapters normalize inbound payloads into workflow-compatible intake events.
- Workflow engines produce schema-valid WorkItems with decision-step state transitions.
- Evidence services attach citations and retrieval traces to response and packet generation.
- Integration runtime executes actions asynchronously with retry and idempotency controls.
- Telemetry and audit streams provide end-to-end traceability across the lifecycle.
Knowledge and ingestion
Supported ingestion modes
- Refresh pipelines for knowledge sources
- Upload pipelines for documents and policy bundles
- Connector-sync pipelines for managed external systems
Ingestion behavior
- Ingestion jobs emit status, latency, and failure diagnostics
- Pipelines support safe retries and backoff strategy
- Asset-level policies define freshness and retention behavior
Render and extraction settings are configurable per source profile.
Freshness operations
- Scheduled refresh and on-demand reprocessing
- Diff visibility to evaluate source changes
- Staleness alerts tied to workflow risk profile
Evidence retrieval
Retrieval profiles: Profiles define recall, precision, and citation strictness by workflow and risk class.
Decision thresholds: Confidence, evidence availability, and policy checks determine whether to answer, review, or escalate.
Response and packet generation
WorkPackets are generated from canonical WorkItem state and evidence bundles.
Destination renderers map canonical packet content to channel-specific payload shapes.
Safety boundaries
- Strict citation mode for policy-critical workflows
- Explicit refusal and escalation when evidence is insufficient
- PII-aware handling and configurable redaction policies
Channel activation
Activation setup: Each intake channel ships activation checks, health signals, and scoped security bindings.
Activation checks
- Origin binding and channel verification
- Performance-conscious integration loading behavior
- Accessible interaction and localization support
Operational controls
- Enable, disable, and monitor intake channels by environment
- Apply channel-specific policy overrides
- Inspect health state and telemetry by internal channel identifier
Workflow and action APIs
Public API intake channels support WorkItem operations, policy-aware execution, and telemetry export.
Authentication
- Scoped credentials for server-to-server access
- Role and tenant context validation for each request
- Fail-closed behavior on missing authorization context
Authorization scopes
- Read and manage WorkItems
- Manage policy and decision-step state transitions
- Execute governed actions with explicit permission
Core endpoint groups
- WorkItem lifecycle operations
- Decision-step and approval operations
- Integration execution and retry operations
Response model
- Typed success and failure envelopes
- Machine-readable reason codes for policy outcomes
- Trace and correlation identifiers for debugging
Telemetry dimensions
- channel identifier and workflow_id
- work_item_id and policy_version
- integration_id and action outcome state
Integration orchestration patterns
Integrations can be connected through native adapters or middleware where required.
Execution patterns
- Create and update destination resources
- Attach packet context and evidence references
- Retry with error classification and dead-letter handling
Ingestion patterns
- Receive request events from external tools
- Normalize into workflow schema
- Route to decision steps and action proposals
Governance controls
- Action allowlists by workflow and role
- Approval requirements by risk profile
- Audit event capture for each mutation
Security model
Security controls are applied at intake, decisioning, execution, and telemetry layers with clear ownership boundaries.
Data handling model
Stored artifacts
- WorkItem state and lifecycle metadata
- Evidence references and packet render metadata
- Execution outcomes and audit event records
Not retained by default
- Unscoped credential material in plaintext form
- Unbounded raw payload logs
- Cross-tenant shared request state
Retention: Retention and archival policies are configurable by policy scope and data classification.
Model training posture: Data handling policies should explicitly control whether workflow artifacts are eligible for model improvement workflows.