What the documents look like
Platform promotion registration and price management revolve around price, inventory, and campaign rhythm. The working materials are campaign registration forms, promotional price approval sheets, inventory lock tables, and campaign review sheets. Source data comes from platform marketing backends, campaign backends, ERP inventory, and historical transaction prices. The category updates weekly or per campaign, and handover requires checking material versions and approval states.
Citation tracing here means that every price or inventory conclusion must point back to the exact wording in a specific material. Retrieval output is candidate content only. It does not constitute registration eligibility, an approval result, or an effective price. A registration form may record a pending promotional price review, while a separate approval sheet may record a decision. The two documents share a subject, an object, and a period, yet their status fields can diverge. Operations handover must treat retrieval as a pointer to source text, not as authorization to lock inventory or confirm a campaign slot.
Constraints at the citation tracing step
The knowledge base search node can associate one or more knowledge bases that use the same vector model. Its output is an array of citations, and the length may be zero. An empty array does not mean the workflow has errored or terminated; the downstream path still runs. The minimum relevance setting applies only during semantic retrieval or when result reranking is used. It is a filtering threshold and does not perform permission or entity isolation. Hybrid retrieval merges multiple result paths through RRF. Reranking requires a rerank model and must be enabled by configuration. Image retrieval requires image input and the corresponding model capability. Knowledge bases with different vector models cannot be associated together; check the model identifier first, exclude incompatible bases, and record what was observed.
Hypothetical paper exercise sample, not a real record: Material A is an excerpt from a platform campaign registration form. The subject is "Brand A." The object is "Product X." The status field reads "Promotional price approval: pending review." The effective range reads "Campaign period 1 May 2026 to 7 May 2026." Material B is an excerpt from a promotional price approval sheet. The same subject and the same product appear. The status field reads "Approval passed." The signing date is 20 April 2026. A proposed handover request sentence reads: "Product X promotional price has been approved and inventory can be locked for the campaign." The field to compare is approval status. Material A and Material B share subject, object, and period, but their approval status values are mutually exclusive. This constitutes a contradiction. The original approval sheet must be verified before any inventory lock is executed.
Configuration and implementation checks
| Configuration or check item | Applicable setting or action for this page | Relation to the sample |
|---|---|---|
| Associated knowledge bases | Select only knowledge bases with the same vector model | Registration form and approval sheet must sit in one searchable scope |
| Citation upper limit | Control citation length by tokens | Limits the length of returned source text |
| Minimum relevance | Threshold effective only in semantic retrieval or reranking | Not a filter for approval status |
| Search mode | Semantic, full-text, or hybrid; hybrid merges through RRF | Identifier-like fields suit full-text or hybrid |
| Citation output | Array, length may be zero | Check downstream with paper input [] |
| Material timeliness check | Test current and historical versions separately | Approval status must come from the effective version |
Three common errors
- Treating a retrieval hit as approval. Error: seeing the approval sheet recalled and concluding the status is valid. Check: input the original text of Material A and Material B, compare the approval status field, and require the same effective version with a consistent status before the condition is met.
- Treating pending review as missing operational permission. Error: inferring from "pending review" that inventory lock permission is absent. Check: compare the signing and effective fields on the approval sheet; when no effective clause is stated, record the evidence gap.
- Using a relevance score to exclude unrelated business. Error: substituting minimum relevance for authorization or entity isolation. Check: verify the subject and product identifiers in the returned content; relevance does not change the permission determination.
How to verify the setup
- Input the two original excerpts from Material A and Material B together with the proposed handover sentence. Compare the approval status field values. When the same subject, same product, and same period show mutually exclusive values, record the result as a contradiction pending verification.
- Input the paper array []. Compare whether the downstream node runs. The output path running without error meets the empty-result handling design.
- Input two knowledge base identifiers that use different vector models. Compare the identifiers. When they differ, exclude the association and record it. Do not run a cross-model retrieval comparison.