ENGINEERING EVIDENCE

Governed History: Known-Good Checkpoint

Governed History: Known-Good Checkpoint

August 6, 2026 PASS

A public-safe extract from the engineering checkpoint used to validate governed historical retrieval, acceptance behavior, and operational boundaries.

A public-safe extract from the engineering checkpoint used to validate governed historical retrieval, acceptance behavior, and operational boundaries.

This checkpoint predates the final Zora RAG v1.0.0 release and is presented as evidence for the retrieval and governed-history claims in the case study.

01 RETRIEVAL EVALUATION

Retrieval was measured against known-answer targets.

Retrieval was measured against known-answer targets.

98%

Top-1 Accuracy

100%

Hit@3

99%

Mean Reciprocal Rank

In practical terms: when Zora was tested against questions with known answers, the correct evidence was retrieved first 98% of the time and appeared within the top three results every time.

Unknown-content negative case

PASS

Overall retrieval requirements

PASS

Evaluation strength was preserved. Maximum acceptable rank remained 1, minimum top score remained 0.35, and retrieval thresholds were not weakened to obtain the result.

02 GOVERNED-HISTORY VALIDATION

The checkpoint was exercised beyond retrieval alone.

The checkpoint was exercised beyond retrieval alone.

Automated Tests

146 passed

0 failed

Conversational Validation

6 passed

Live Governed Entities

11 checked

0 audit failures

Public MCP SSE acceptance

Public MCP SSE acceptance

PASS

PASS

Privacy protection

Privacy protection

PASS

PASS

Coverage disclosure

Coverage disclosure

PASS

PASS

Unsupported-question rejection

Unsupported-question rejection

PASS

PASS

Unsupported causation warning

PASS

PASS

03 RAG ACCEPTANCE

16 of 16 acceptance checks passed.

16 of 16 acceptance checks passed.

PASSED

16

FAILED

0

TOTAL

16

EXIT CODE

0

Verified behavior included

Required files present

Python programs compile

Qdrant and Ollama reachable

Ingestion completes

Chunks remain deterministic

Collection remains healthy

Chunk and point counts match

Indexed fingerprint matches processed chunks

Retrieval evaluation passes

Vectors persist across Qdrant restart

Grounded answers include citations and sources

Unknown answers refuse safely without fabricated sources

04 EVIDENCE SCOPE

What this checkpoint substantiates.

What this checkpoint substantiates.

Retrieval Quality

The recorded metrics substantiate the retrieval-performance claims shown on the main Evidence page.

Governed Behavior

The checkpoint verifies public-interface acceptance, privacy protection, unsupported-question rejection, and bounded behavior.

Known-Good State

The checkpoint records a reproducible engineering state with tests, acceptance results, and explicit limitations.

This is not an independent audit, certification, or the final v1.0.0 release record.

05 SOURCE RECORD

Public-safe engineering extract.

Public-safe engineering extract.

This page is derived from the original machine-readable and human-readable August 6 engineering checkpoint. Private hostnames, filesystem paths, sensor identifiers, rollback markers, backup paths, and other implementation-specific details have been intentionally omitted from the public portfolio.

checkpoint_date: 2026-08-06

status: known-good

scope: governed-history / retrieval / acceptance

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