# Retrieval source lifecycle review brief

## Source health

Summarize source freshness, authority level, owner coverage, permission behavior, citation quality, and known conflicts. Separate authoritative sources from reference and legacy sources.

## Decisions

Decide which sources should stay active, refresh, quarantine, merge, or retire. Every stale authoritative source needs an owner and correction date.

## Follow-up

Update ingestion status, evaluation cases, source metadata, and retirement plans. Keep source lifecycle decisions visible to product, knowledge, risk, and operations owners.