The Question Workflow

Question open answered open · partial information answered · superseded

q_governance_04 · req_board_oversight

question_text

“Who signs off the quarterly capital assessment, and which committee receives it?”

tagged_users

CFO · MLRO

source_extracts

MFSA Rulebook R2-2.5.1: quarterly oversight and documented escalation.

responses[]

“The CFO signs it. The Risk Committee receives the pack; the board only sees exceptions.” — user, verbatim

status_context

Superseded by q_governance_07: the original assumed board-level quarterly review.

Original scope addressed Mark Answered. Preserve the response and stop.

Only part of a multi-part ask is complete Keep Open. Name the remaining gap precisely.

The answer reveals a new, different gap Answer the original. Spawn a structurally distinct follow-up.

The original framing was wrong Answer as superseded. Create a corrected replacement and preserve history.

A Question begins with a grounded gap

The corpus is silent, incomplete, or contradictory about something that blocks a Requirement, Section, Deliverable, or the project overall. The integrator asks one scoped Question and tags the people most likely to know.

Source extracts record what prompted the ask. The integrator does not manufacture a negative answer from absence.

Save and submit are not the same event

A user can work on an answer without committing it. On submit, the response joins the UserInput queue. The UI remains responsive while the integrator works later.

During the round, the raw response is appended to responses[] verbatim. Curated quotes may also enter source_responses, but they never replace the user's own words.

03 · Pattern A

The original scope is addressed

If the response satisfies the whole ask, the Question becomes Answered. Findings credit the user and explain useful cross-references. The integrator does not repackage the same answer as its own proposed_answer.

Straight answers should end cleanly. No ceremonial follow-up is invented.

04 · Pattern B

A correct question can be partially fulfilled

If the Question asks for several people, jurisdictions, controls, or artefacts and only some arrive, it stays Open with Partial Information.

The status context names exactly what remains. The Question is not retired merely because it made progress.

05 · Pattern C

A complete answer can expose a new gap

Sometimes the user answers the original ask completely and, in doing so, reveals a different question. The original becomes Answered; a new Question is created for the emergent gap.

The successor must be structurally different—not the old Question with answered clauses removed.

06 · Pattern D

Wrong framing is superseded, not rewritten

If new information shows that the Question's premise was wrong, the original becomes Answered with status_context beginning “Superseded by …”. A corrected replacement carries the new framing.

There is no fictional retired status. The explicit supersession marker preserves the old ask, the old answer, and the reason the project changed direction.

Readiness is judged after the Question

Question status and Requirement readiness are related, but they are not the same field. After question handling, the typed readiness sweep removes resolved blockers, preserves open ones, and records a fresh reasoned verdict.

An answer can unblock drafting without becoming documentary Evidence. The final prose must still state its provenance honestly.