| Case |
Persistent farmer problem record containing conversation, media, context, evidence, assessments and outcome. |
| Evidence item |
Fact or passage with provenance, date, authority, limitations and source ID. |
| Hypothesis |
Candidate explanation for the observed crop condition. |
| Differential diagnosis |
Ranked alternatives with evidence for and against each. |
| Evidence sufficiency |
Whether evidence supports a proposed action at its risk level. |
| Subjective confidence |
The model's own estimate; useful but never the sole gate. |
| Local authority |
Approved departmental guidance, current registration, rules and verified local records. |
| External research |
Material found outside the approved corpus, including papers and official sites. |
| Hierarchical retrieval |
Retrieval across document, chapter, section and atomic-passage levels. |
| Parent expansion |
Adding enclosing context around a matched child chunk. |
| Research budget |
Limits on queries, sources, elapsed time, tokens and cost. |
| Policy verification |
Deterministic validation of exact legal, product, dose, interval or restriction claims. |
| Human interrupt |
Paused workflow awaiting reviewer approval, edit, rejection or information. |
| Shadow mode |
Candidate output evaluated without being shown to farmers. |
| Sovereign deployment |
Government-controlled infrastructure and approved local models/data stores. |
| Ponytail |
Minimal-engineering discipline: the least safe solution that actually works. |