/filter-false-gap

name: filter-false-gap
description: "Distinguish a real knowledge gap from search failure, already-resolved questions, or intrinsically unanswerable formulations."

filter-false-gap

Purpose

Distinguish a real knowledge gap from search failure, resolved questions, or unanswerable formulations.

Input contract

required: [gap_claim, search_record, evidence_scope]
optional: [prior_findings, answerability_constraints]
constraints: [absence claims must be tied to a declared search and scope]

Procedure

1. Check whether the search covered the declared evidence scope. 2. Compare the claim with existing findings and resolved questions. 3. Test whether the formulation is answerable under stated constraints. 4. Label real gap, search failure, resolved, or unanswerable with rationale.

Output contract

produces: [gap_verdict, search_adequacy, answerability_note]
delta_fields: [findings, evidence_updates, uncertainties, decisions]

Quality gates

• Verdict cites search adequacy and distinguishes unknown from absent.

Failure and counterexamples

Do not confirm a gap from an under-scoped search or reject a gap merely because evidence is inconvenient.

Provenance map

• `deep-insight/false-gap-filtering`: resolved.