Citation Binding

An answer without citations asks the reader to trust the model. An answer with citations asks the reader to check, which is a materially different offer and the only one acceptable in regulated work. Binding is harder than appending a source list: the requirement is that a given sentence maps to a given passage, so a reader disputing one claim can locate its basis without re-reading everything retrieved. Weak binding — listing sources consulted — fails the test, because it cannot distinguish a claim drawn from an authoritative record from one the model supplied itself.

Because retrieval draws from governed records with stable identifiers, a Centralpoint answer can name the record behind a statement and link to it, and that link resolves to the same version the answer was derived from. The Interaction Log retains what was retrieved for the execution, so the binding can be verified after the fact rather than taken on trust.