Editorial Protocol

How Foundry Brief
Treats The Record

Foundry Brief is built for professional reuse. That means recency, evidence class, source hierarchy, and correction discipline are not back-office details. They are part of the product surface.

4 Core Protocols
4 Evidence Labels
3 Source Tiers
M-01 RECENCY

Update timestamps

Every card, matrix, and tracker shows when the surface was last reviewed and refreshed.

M-02 CLAIM TYPE

Evidence labels

Claims are tagged [FACT], [INFERENCE], [ASSUMPTION], or [RECOMMENDATION] so the reasoning burden stays visible.

M-03 SOURCE TRAIL

Public-source methodology

Analysis is grounded in manufacturer materials, government publications, and credible institutional reporting documented per asset.

M-04 AUDIT LOG

Corrections standard

Errors are corrected openly with change logs rather than silent edits or rewritten history.

Method Chain

The working sequence is consistent: reveal recency, reveal evidence class, reveal sourcing basis, and preserve correction history when the record changes.

Protocol

Visible provenance on every deliverable

Protocol

Repeatable evidence taxonomy across cards, matrices, and trackers

Protocol

Correction discipline designed for professional reuse

Evidence Labels

[FACT] Verified public claim

Use when the underlying source supports the statement directly, typically through official manufacturer, government, or institutional material.

[INFERENCE] Reasoned synthesis

Use when the conclusion is the most defensible reading of multiple public signals but is not itself stated verbatim by a source.

[ASSUMPTION] Explicit unknown

Use when the record is incomplete and a working assumption is needed to keep the product or analysis moving.

[RECOMMENDATION] Actionable judgment

Use when Foundry Brief is moving from description into a bounded recommendation about editorial, product, or business direction.

Source Hierarchy

Primary

Manufacturer releases, defense ministries, procurement agencies, official military statements

Institutional

Think tanks, multilateral institutions, audited filings, parliamentary or congressional materials

Qualified reporting

Defense trade press and major reporting used only when primary material is absent or incomplete

Corrections Standard

  • Update the live page when the public record changes materially.
  • Preserve the audit trail by changing the visible review date rather than pretending the earlier state never existed.
  • Do not inflate certainty to smooth over incomplete or contradictory sourcing.

Scope Boundary

  • No weapon construction, target selection, attack planning, or operational military advice.
  • No harmful dual-use optimization or procurement-evasion guidance.
  • Public-interest, non-operational system analysis only.
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