Verification loop

A verification loop is the governed path that turns an identified knowledge gap into an approved, source-traceable answer: identify the gap, name the verifier, ask one short contextual question, record the human decision.

The loop matters more than the detection. Anyone can flag uncertainty; what holds up in an audit is who confirmed it, against which version of which source, and when.

Approvals are bound to an exact version. When the underlying content changes, the approval is invalidated and the item returns to needing verification, so an approval can never float above content that has moved on.

Human verification stays authoritative throughout. Every vendor that has promised automatic truth extraction without human review has had to walk the claim back.