Scope Boundary Enforcement

An assistant built to answer benefits questions will happily attempt a legal question, because nothing in a general model constrains subject matter. The resulting answer is fluent, uncited and outside every review process the organization established. Boundary enforcement declares the remit and holds it: out-of-scope requests are redirected rather than attempted. The difficult part is edge cases, since a benefits question with a legal dimension is common and a boundary that refuses it is unhelpful — which argues for escalation at the edges rather than refusal.

Scope boundaries are governance-tier rules in Centralpoint, so they load before the request is processed and cannot be talked around by a later instruction. Taxonomy scoping reinforces them at the retrieval layer: a prompt bound to a branch of the hierarchy has nothing outside that branch to draw on, so the boundary is structural as well as instructional.