Query Understanding → Dual Retrieval → Evidence Gate → Context Assembly → Grounded Inference → Citation Validation. Every answer passes through all six stages; failing the Evidence Gate stops the pipeline before an answer is written.

Context is assembled by legal authority: Act, then Rules, then Circulars, then Case Law. A lower-authority source never overrides a higher one in the final answer.

Citation Validation re-checks every citation against the original source text after generation — not just at retrieval time — before the answer is released and logged.