Your Agent Found a Source. Is It the Version You Need?
An agent searches for a deployment procedure and finds a relevant passage. Meanwhile, someone has published a correction to that procedure. The passage is useful, but it's from the previous version. That can happen without a failed publish or a broken search. In a system with asynchronous indexing, the newest saved document and the newest searchable document can be different versions. The caller…
When an agent locates an older source during a task that requires current information, it should not automatically use the outdated version. Instead, the agent should stop and explicitly label the version as outdated or incorrect for the current task. This ensures that the task maintains the integrity of using up-to-date procedures and evidence.
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