Knowledge pipeline
Trace a Source from ingestion to a cited Assistant answer.
Ingestion
Ciele stores Knowledge as Documents in Open Knowledge Format (OKF). A Document keeps a reference to its original Source. OKF calls the same record a Concept, and the database tables keep that name.
FAQ ingestion creates a curated Document with question and answer provenance. File and website ingestion preserve the original Source object where applicable.
Retrieval
The runtime can retrieve Documents through vector search and lexical fallback. Graph mode can add navigation through indexed Document relationships.
Every path scopes by the Assistant-to-Source links. A hit from a Source that is not linked to the querying Assistant is dropped, in the graph path as in the vector path.
A Context Hint can constrain retrieval to a relevant Collection or course-like context when the runtime supplies one.
Deep Search increases Knowledge navigation work within runtime bounds. It does not query the public web.
Citation resolution
The final answer cites named Sources, not opaque search chunks. Citation identifiers resolve through the Document to its original Source.
The Visitor can open the Sources display after the answer. The Inbox stores the same citation parts with the Conversation.
Deletion and recrawl
Source deletion retires related Documents from active graph and search data, for every linked Assistant. Removing one link retires nothing. It stops one Assistant from reaching the Source.
Website recrawl restarts extraction and indexing for that Source.