System component

Source intake and lineage— Metabole

Acquires source material while preserving identity, provenance, handling context, and data-quality evidence.

Status publication pending

Authority: contextual

Metabole establishes where decision material came from and how it was handled. Its evidence can support later judgment, but it does not make that judgment.

Responsibility boundary

Owns—and explicitly does not own

Owns

  • Governed ingestion and source profiling
  • Transformation and mapping-candidate evidence
  • Source lineage and data-quality evidence

Does not own

  • Semantic truth
  • Model routing or governed execution
  • Promotion or legal determination

Contract surface

Receives and produces

Receives
  • Source records and declared source context
  • Publication-approved lineage metadata
Produces
  • Lineage-bearing source material
  • Transformation and data-quality evidence

Proof and maturity

What the public surface can support

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