Rollback Recovery Governance

Rollback is an authority question disguised as a technical one. Reverting a published document undoes decisions that other people made and may have relied on, so the ability to revert should be narrower than the ability to edit — and the fact of reversion should be visible rather than leaving an estate that silently returns to an earlier state. Systems that make rollback frictionless usually make it untraceable.

Reversion in Centralpoint is a versioned event on the record rather than a restoration over it, so the document's history shows that a rollback occurred, who performed it and what it displaced. Derived artefacts including the retrieval surface follow the record's state, so a reverted document is reflected in what an AI assistant will retrieve rather than persisting in the index.