Ownership Boundary

Knowledge owns the durable meaning and custody of claims, evidence, references, biological identity, and their relationships. It answers “what is asserted, what supports it, where did that support come from, and what remains uncertain or contradictory?” It does not decide what action to take.

flowchart LR
    F["Foundation identity and provenance"] --> K["Knowledge"]
    C["Core scientific results"] --> K
    K --> M["claims and evidence memory"]
    K --> G["biological grounding"]
    K --> V["reviewable provenance"]
    V --> I["Intelligence judgment"]
    V --> L["Lab consequence review"]

Owned Meanings

Surface	Owned responsibility	Representative implementation
claims and evidence	typed assertion, support, provenance, uncertainty	memory/models/claims.py, memory/models/evidence.py
graph integrity	valid claim/evidence relationships and reachable records	memory/integrity/graph.py
ingestion and reconciliation	normalized custody and explicit conflict resolution	memory/normalization/ingestion.py, memory/reconciliation/resolution.py
identity and biological context	protein, pathway, complex, disease, drug, kinase, ortholog, and feature grounding	domain packages under identity/, pathways/, complexes/, disease/, drugs/, kinases/, orthologs/, features/
reference evidence	public source registry, citation context, comparator evidence	references/
review handoff	provenance, evidence coverage, explanation, decision brief input	reviews/ and coverage/

Refused Ownership

Concern	Canonical owner	Knowledge records instead
shared identifier and provenance primitives	Foundation	references to stable primitives
parsing, normalization algorithms, statistical inference	Core	resulting evidence with method provenance
ranking, confidence policy, recommendation, refusal	Intelligence	evidence packet and uncertainty
run orchestration, retries, replay, artifact emission	Runtime	run and artifact references
intervention feasibility and observed outcome	Lab	consequence and outcome evidence after handoff

Knowledge may say that evidence is missing, conflicting, stale, or insufficient. It must not convert those findings into a recommendation posture or laboratory instruction.

Boundary Review

Keep a change here when it preserves or resolves scientific memory and the result can be reviewed independently of a decision policy. Move it when the change calculates a scientific result, schedules work, ranks options, or records an intervention outcome.

The decisive proof is a reconstructable chain from claim to evidence to source, including ambiguity and contradiction—not merely a serialized record.