Research brief

Status: complete; published 2026-08-19

Scope as inventoried (v0 held). Layer questions answered: curation operating model (H22 refined), index scoping (CD-11), plus the six core disciplines (parsing, chunking, embedding ops, memory tiers, ACL propagation, freshness/lineage). Maintainer POV: Batch A kickoff questions 5-6 (2026-08-19).

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Source: research/R14-agent-data-engineering/brief.md in the evidence repository behind this site.