B.7 Deliver Knowledge Where the Decision Occurs

Problem. A rule cannot influence a decision if the actor does not encounter it in time. As the knowledge base grows, relying on the actor to search the full corpus becomes increasingly unreliable.

Move. Deliver the knowledge needed for the current work where the decision occurs; do not rely on the actor to find it in the full corpus.

Figure B.7-1 shows the selection at the decision point.

C.7 Deliver knowledge where the decision occurs: select the rules relevant to the work and bind them to the decision A body of rules and a unit of work both feed a selection step. The rules relevant to this particular work are filtered through a selection funnel and delivered into the decision, so discovery is a property of the environment rather than a test of the actor's memory or search skill. The knowledge input is drawn as a stacked-document shape with a dashed edge; the work input as a solid box with a solid edge; the funnel is a trapezoid — the roles are legible by shape and weight, not colour. RULES the governing corpus WORK the files being changed relevant to scopes CONTEXT SELECTION DECISION Bind the relevant knowledge to the work surface where it matters. Make discovery a property of the environment, not a test of memory or search skill.
Figure B.7-1. Knowledge delivery at the decision point. Context selection joins the current work with the rules relevant to its scope and supplies that subset to the decision. The distinction is encoded by shape and line style rather than color.

Example — File-scoped context. Dynamic context injection selects the rules governing the files in a task and injects those rules into the agent's brief. The relevant rules arrive with the assignment rather than leaving the agent to find them in the full governance corpus.

Example — Dispatch admission. Brief linting applies the same principle one step earlier. A task cannot launch until its brief contains the required markers and context.

Related mechanisms: Dynamic context injection · Governed Knowledge Base · Brief linting · Mandatory snippet-table enforcement · Point-of-action policy delivery.

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