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Example: Market update used stale sources

Situation

The system produced a report, but the loop failed on recency control.

What the user said

The report looks fine, but two of the sources are 18 months old and the conclusion feels disconnected from what happened this quarter.

Skill move

Inspect source recency, name the retrieval failure, and rerun only the evidence-gathering and conclusion steps.

Possible structured output

## Target State
Produce a market update grounded in current-quarter evidence.

## Current State
The narrative is readable, but the evidence base includes stale sources and weak quarter-specific support.

## Observed Deviation
Recency drift between target evidence standards and retrieved material.

## Error Source
Retrieval configuration failed to enforce time bounds and source diversity.

## Correction Strategy
Rerun retrieval with a strict recency filter, replace stale citations, and regenerate the conclusion using only refreshed evidence.

## Escalation Decision
Escalate if no current-quarter primary sources exist, because the constraint then becomes a data availability problem.

Why it matters

Closed-loop quality here means correcting the evidence chain, not just editing prose.