Documentation

Reference pages meant to be returned to.

Longer-lived than a guide and narrower than an essay: patterns, field-by-field rules, and the standards this site holds itself to. All examples are illustrative.

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Structured Extraction Patterns

A reference for schema design, validation, retries, review thresholds, and error handling in page-to-record extraction.

Structured extraction converts page content into typed records against a schema you define in advance. The patterns that decide whether it holds up in production are schema design, explicit nulls, excerpt requirements, validation before use, and a defined review path for low-confidence records. Everything here is conceptual and illustrative; none of it describes a live service.

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Source Metadata Patterns

What to record about a retrieved page so a claim can be checked months later — and what not to store.

Source metadata is the record of where content came from and when. A workable minimum is the requested URL, the canonical URL, the retrieval timestamp, the content hash, the access method, and the excerpt supporting each claim. Store enough to re-check a claim; store as little third-party content as you can get away with.

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Technical Content Quality Standard

The editorial standard used for guides, documentation, and templates on this site — written to be copied and adapted.

This is the working quality standard for technical content: what a page must establish before publication, how code examples are labelled and verified, how uncertainty is expressed, and what is never published. It is an internal-style document, published openly so it can be reused.

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