Using Competitive References

A competitive reference is a document in our corpus that we did not write, or whose authorship we have not confirmed. Third-party models, proposals kept as examples, and copies filed under a reference folder all land here.

What you may do

• Read one to understand how a solicitation was answered.
• Note which sections a responsive answer contained.
• Note which methods were named, via method_tags.
• Cite it in an internal capture discussion.

What you may not do

• Quote it. Not one sentence.
• Paraphrase it into our language.
• Treat anything in it as a Qualus fact, capability, or past performance record.
• Promote it to the boilerplate library by hand.

Every page in competitive/ carries reuse_permitted: false and is excluded from retrieval/blocks.jsonl. Only a 160-character orientation snippet is rendered. The full text stays in the artifact store, where a human can open it deliberately.

If you think one is actually ours

Do not edit the page. Open manifest/authority_review_queue.csv in the artifact store, set promotion_decision to promote_authoritative, record who decided and when, and rebuild. The pipeline honours the decision. Re-promotion is a data edit, never a code change.

Related

• Reuse policy by authority tier
• Competitive reference index