6. RFP / Security Questionnaire Pack

Reconstruction for teaching. Fictional vendor (Castora Analytics) and buyer (Meridian Bank), synthetic binder; the receipts are generated, not from a real run.

Pattern: citation claim-ledger (cite-or-cut) · Primitive: /goal · Domain: non-coding

Use when

You must answer a long security/RFP questionnaire and every answer has to cite an approved source — or be left as an explicit gap for a human, never fabricated.

The loop (copy-paste)

This is the library card for this example. Copy the contract and fill the brackets:

Goal:        Answer the <N>-question questionnaire for <buyer> from the approved binder only.
Context:     The approved source-of-truth binder; the questionnaire.
Constraints: Every answer must cite a source line. No citation -> delete the claim, mark GAP.
Done-when:   Every question is ANSWERED-with-citation or marked GAP (needs human).
Evidence:    An answer pack (question, answer, source_id, source_quote, status); a claim ledger.
If-blocked:  If the binder lacks support, write "GAP - needs human"; do not guess.

Verify

A separate check reads the ANSWER_PACK.xlsx: every ANSWERED row must carry a non-empty source_id and source_quote that exist in the binder; GAP rows must have no fabricated source. See the claim ledger.

Steps

Draft each answer strictly from the approved binder.
Attach a source line to each claim; auto-delete anything unsupported.
Mark unsupported questions GAP and hand them to a human.

What happened

Of 60 questions, the loop answered 58 with a cited source line and left 2 as GAPs. The memorable one: it drafted "we're FedRAMP authorized," found no supporting line in the binder, self-deleted the claim, and wrote "GAP — needs human." Cite-or-cut, enforced on every answer. (Illustrative — as of June 2026, verify before relying.)

Coverage climb across the metric-climb examples

The receipts

ANSWER_PACK.xlsx — question, answer, source_id, source_quote, confidence, status.
Approved binder — the only citable corpus.
Claim ledger (PASS/FAIL) · loop log (the self-deleted claim) · progress · all artifacts.

Notes

The honesty comes from a closed corpus + cite-or-cut: the binder is the only source of truth, and any claim without a source line is deleted and surfaced as a gap rather than hallucinated.