Why does Controlled Version Publishing matter for AI governance?

Human readers navigate messy estates through context and scepticism — they notice the 2019 folder. A model has no such basis: four versions are equally retrievable and it will cite whichever ranks highest, with a citation that resolves and prose that reads authoritatively. Publishing control is therefore not a tidiness concern but the mechanism that determines what an assistant can say. Centralpoint ties index membership to record lifecycle, so publication admits a version and supersession removes its predecessor without depending on a cleanup job that may not have run.