How to read the Source Manifest
What the Source Manifest is
The Source Manifest is Section 15 of every Wealth Recon dossier. It is the back-of-the-book proof: every claim that survived the multi-model verification gauntlet, with the exact public Uniform Resource Locator the engine consumed, with the timestamp the source was last verified, with a small green checkmark indicating the verification passed at render time.
Compliance officers read the Source Manifest first. It is the artifact most often asked for in firm-internal vendor reviews; the rest of the dossier is research, but the manifest is the proof.
The structure
Each section heading in the manifest mirrors the corresponding dossier section title (for example, "At a Glance," "Why Now," "Wealth and Asset Signals"). Below each heading, the manifest lists every Uniform Resource Locator cited in that section as a flat bulleted list. Uniform Resource Locators render in monospaced type so the visual signal is "this is a literal reference" rather than "this is editorial framing."
Each Uniform Resource Locator is followed by a small green checkmark glyph indicating the verification timestamp passed at render time. A flag glyph in amber would indicate a stale or recently moved source; you would only see the flag on dossiers older than the cache windows in the methodology, where the incremental update pipeline has not yet refreshed the citation.
The manifest carries no narrative, no editorial framing, and no commentary. It is a flat ledger. Its visual restraint is deliberate.
How to verify a claim
The Source Manifest is the primary verification surface. Two paths work.
Path 1: Click through from the in-line citation
Every factual claim in the dossier carries a tiny inline citation indicator: a superscript numeral set in the Wealth Recon brass color. Hover the indicator to reveal a tooltip showing the source Uniform Resource Locator, the verification timestamp, and a citation snippet. Click the indicator to open the right context panel with the full source record: Uniform Resource Locator, verification timestamp, snippet, and a link to open the source in a new browser tab.
This is the fastest path when you have the dossier open and a specific claim feels worth verifying.
Path 2: Read through the manifest top-to-bottom
The manifest at the back of the dossier is structured for top-to-bottom reading by a compliance officer. Each section heading says what the citations support; each Uniform Resource Locator is one click from the underlying record.
The compliance read pattern: open the manifest, click each Uniform Resource Locator in order, confirm that the source is reachable and that the cited content is in fact present on the source page. The Comma-Separated Values export described below is the right artifact when the compliance officer wants to tick off claims systematically.
Export for Compliance: the structured version
The Comma-Separated Values export is a render target of the same dossier content as the Source Manifest. The button sits in the action menu in the reader's top region, alongside Download Portable Document Format. Click the button to download the latest Comma-Separated Values file.
The Comma-Separated Values strips narrative entirely. Every row is a single factual claim mapped to its source. Eight columns:
| Column | Content |
|---|---|
claim_id | Stable identifier for the claim within the dossier |
section_number | Numeric section number, 1 through 15 |
section_title | Section title matching the dossier section heading |
claim_text | The factual claim, plain text, no Markdown |
source_url | The verifiable public source Uniform Resource Locator |
source_verified_at | International Organization for Standardization 8601 timestamp the source was last verified |
confidence_flag | verified, low_signal, advisor_corrected, or manifest_unsourced |
editor_attribution | The advisor who last edited the claim, blank if untouched |
The Comma-Separated Values opens cleanly in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, or any spreadsheet tool. The file is exactly what a compliance officer asks for when they say "give me the data behind this dossier."
What the green checkmark means
The checkmark is a verification record, not an endorsement. It says: at render time (or at the most recent incremental update), this Uniform Resource Locator returned a 200 response, contained text supporting the cited claim, and is not on the deny list of low-quality citation sources.
The checkmark does not say: the source is correct, the source is current, the source is the only source, the source is the strongest source. It says only that the verification pass succeeded. The methodology page explains how the verification works.
What if a Uniform Resource Locator does not load
Public Uniform Resource Locators move. A source that was reachable at render time may have moved, expired, or gone behind a paywall by the time you read the dossier. If you click a manifest Uniform Resource Locator and the page does not load, three responses:
- Try the archived copy. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine often holds a snapshot of public pages; paste the failing Uniform Resource Locator into
https://web.archive.org/and the most recent snapshot usually surfaces. - Check the dossier's freshness. If the dossier is older than thirty days, the next refresh cycle will re-verify the citations and either re-anchor to a current Uniform Resource Locator or drop the claim if no current source supports it.
- File an inline comment. The comment surfaces to me; I will look at whether the engine should detect the moved-source case earlier.
[CTA: Open a sample dossier and read the manifest]
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