Rule Provenance

Rules outlive the circumstances that produced them. A constraint added because a regulator asked a specific question in a specific year persists for a decade, and eventually nobody can say why it exists — at which point it is either preserved out of caution long after it is needed, or removed by someone unaware of what it was protecting. Provenance prevents both by attaching the origin to the rule: the decision, the date, the person, the reason. It converts a rule library from a set of assertions into a defensible record.

Skills in Centralpoint carry owner, review cadence and version history as fields on the record, so the origin and evolution of a rule are inspectable rather than remembered. Because the corpus is curated rather than merely stored, a rule whose basis has lapsed is identified during review instead of persisting indefinitely by default.