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In practice, ",[15,16,17],"strong",{},"people make decisions from summaries"," — escalation paths, audit responses, onboarding briefings, and executive sign-off. A wrong summary is a wrong decision with better typography.",[20,21,23],"h3",{"id":22},"_1-compression-hides-uncertainty","1. Compression hides uncertainty",[11,25,26],{},"Models compress ambiguity into crisp bullets. That is the product feature and the liability. Require summaries to surface:",[28,29,30,34,37],"ul",{},[31,32,33],"li",{},"what is explicitly stated in sources",[31,35,36],{},"what is inferred",[31,38,39],{},"what is missing from the retrieved set",[11,41,42],{},"If the system cannot say “insufficient evidence,” it will say something anyway.",[20,44,46],{"id":45},"_2-multi-document-summaries-need-explicit-boundaries","2. Multi-document summaries need explicit boundaries",[11,48,49,50,53],{},"Cross-document summaries are powerful for audits and diligence. They are also where ",[15,51,52],{},"context bleeding"," happens — clauses from one agreement attributed to another, or policies from an old entity mixed with the current one.",[11,55,56],{},"Enforce collection boundaries per workspace, matter, or deal room. Never summarize across tenant or matter lines because the UI made it convenient.",[20,58,60],{"id":59},"_3-length-is-a-policy-choice-not-a-model-default","3. 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At minimum, each material bullet should link to:",[28,119,120,123,126],{},[31,121,122],{},"document ID",[31,124,125],{},"section or page",[31,127,128],{},"snippet hash or offset",[11,130,131],{},"Faithfulness checks should run on summaries too — not only on Q&A answers.",[20,133,135],{"id":134},"_5-staleness-is-a-summarization-bug","5. Staleness is a summarization bug",[11,137,138],{},"Summaries age badly when the underlying corpus changes. Tie summary objects to:",[28,140,141,144,147],{},[31,142,143],{},"source document versions used",[31,145,146],{},"generation timestamp",[31,148,149],{},"expiry or refresh policy",[11,151,152],{},"A summary of last quarter’s policy is an incident waiting for next quarter’s audit.",[20,154,156],{"id":155},"_6-pii-and-privilege-boundaries","6. PII and privilege boundaries",[11,158,159,160,163],{},"Summarization across HR, legal, and customer folders can leak fields that retrieval policies were supposed to block. 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