Lifecycle Overview

The index lifecycle starts with prepared ingest output and ends when retrieval behavior has been executed, recorded, and exposed clearly enough for reasoning or runtime to inspect.

Lifecycle Flow

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    prepared["prepared ingest output"]
    entry["index entrypoints"]
    retrieval["embedding, indexing, and retrieval"]
    results["recorded retrieval results"]

    prepared --> entry --> retrieval --> results

This page should show retrieval as one continuous package-owned flow. Readers should be able to see how prepared input becomes replayable search behavior without drifting into reasoning or runtime authority.

Lifecycle Shape

• prepared input reaches index entrypoints and package workflows
• embedding, indexing, retrieval, and comparison logic execute under named module ownership
• results leave the package with provenance and replay context attached

Handoff Point

The lifecycle stops before claim meaning or run authority. bijux-canon-reason and bijux-canon-runtime own those next decisions.

Design Pressure

If the lifecycle cannot stop at retrieval results with provenance attached, index is either under-explained or taking on downstream meaning. The package has to end with inspectable search behavior, not with an implicit next step.