A living knowledge base improves itself with use. CVS captures expert answers, detects contradictions in a temporal knowledge graph, and retires stale facts without ever deleting history — adding 30–50 verified entries per week automatically.
Knowledge enters CVS three ways at once. Experts add facts manually through the web UI. The agent escalation loop captures answers to questions the base could not previously handle. And diff-reindex automatically re-ingests documents when they change, so updates flow in without a full rebuild.
Every channel converges on the same disciplined path: raw input becomes atomic facts, each fact is stamped with provenance, a contradiction check runs against existing knowledge, and a non-destructive patch lands in the living knowledge base. Nothing is overwritten, and everything is attributable.
When a new fact arrives, CVS does not blindly append it. The old fact and the new fact — each carrying source provenance and a validity period — enter the temporal knowledge graph, where the engine reasons about how they relate over time rather than just whether their text overlaps.
The check resolves to one of five outcomes: CONFIRMS, PATCHES, SUPERSEDES, CONTRADICTS, or NEEDS HUMAN REVIEW. Outdated knowledge is retired from retrieval the moment it is superseded — but its history is preserved, so you can still query what the base believed on any past date.
CVS updates knowledge at the fragment level, not the document level. A chunk evolves along an explicit version chain — Document v1 → chunk A → patch A1 → patch A2 → superseded by Document v2 — with typed edges recording exactly how each step derives from the last.
Because patches are non-destructive, original content is never rewritten. Retrieval always reads the current valid chain, while auditors can walk DERIVED_FROM, PATCHED_BY, and SUPERSEDED_BY edges to reconstruct the full lineage. This is what makes CVS defensible under SOX and similar version-control requirements.
This is the loop almost no enterprise AI closes. An employee asks; the five retrievers search; confidence falls below threshold; the question routes to the right expert; the expert's reply becomes atomic facts; and the next answer is instant and better. The loop is operational, not a thumbs-up button on a chat reply.
Routing flows through Slack, Teams, or the CVS escalation queue, so experts answer where they already work. Each captured answer is parsed into provenance-stamped facts and patched into the base, compounding into roughly 30–50 new knowledge entries every week — knowledge that stays even when the person who knew it leaves.
In a 30-minute pilot we will escalate a real unanswered question, capture the expert reply, and show the contradiction check and version chain update live.