Status model

This project never treats one green HTTP check as proof that legal content is current. Five independent dimensions prevent that shortcut.

Dimension	Question	Typical values
Source status	Is the official source known and applicable?	current, superseded, partial, unknown
Extraction status	How much was transformed into project content?	complete, partial, not_applicable
Legal review	Has a person checked publication, effects, and dates?	reviewed, pending_review
Corpus status	May retrieval present this digest as current?	current, stale, partial, superseded
Transport health	Did a bounded probe receive plausible content?	healthy, suspicious_response, unreachable

Rules

• DOF or SIDOF establishes publication. A consolidated Cámara de Diputados text is useful for reading the incorporated law, but it does not replace the publication event.
• current_through is the latest effective event explicitly reviewed into a page. It is not the date on which a URL was fetched.
• content_valid_from delimits the observed manifestation behind a mutable consolidated URL. It prevents a PDF marked "vigente" today from being silently used as if it were the text available decades ago.
• partial is a positive disclosure: the source family is useful, but one or more amendments, annexes, extraction sections, or review steps remain incomplete.
• stale content remains available for historical or diagnostic retrieval but must not be cited as the current answer.
• Project-authored explainers are non_authoritative even when every citation is official.

Examples

A consolidated Ley Aduanera PDF may be available and current while the local digest is stale, because the digest has not been fully rebuilt after a reform. Conversely, RGCE 2025 is intentionally superseded but remains indexed for questions whose cutoff falls in 2025.

No automated network workflow may promote a record to current. That transition requires review of the instrument, publication date, effective provisions, transitory articles, and affected annexes.

When a historical cutoff has no versioned manifestation, retrieval must abstain and disclose the gap. A current consolidated URL is not backdated to the instrument's original effective date.