# Retrieval source lifecycle kit

Use this kit to govern retrieval sources from intake and ownership through freshness, permission, quality, and retirement. Strong retrieval depends on source lifecycle operations, not only indexing and prompt design.

## What it includes

- A source register for owner, authority level, freshness, permission rule, ingestion status, quality issue, and retirement plan.
- Quality checks for duplicate, stale, conflicting, unowned, permission-sensitive, and low-citation sources.
- A lifecycle schema for retrieval governance.
- A review brief for source owners.
- A retirement map for removing unsafe or stale content.

## How to use it

Register sources before ingestion. Review quality and freshness on a cadence. Retire or quarantine stale, conflicting, unowned, or permission-failing content before it damages answer quality.