Good documents exist, but the assistant keeps choosing a stale policy version. What would you change?

Instruction: Explain how you would debug a freshness failure when multiple versions of the same policy exist.

Context: Tests how the candidate diagnoses the problem, chooses the safest next step, and reasons through recovery. Explain how you would debug a freshness failure when multiple versions of the same policy exist.

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I would fix this at the document identity and validity layer first. If the assistant keeps surfacing stale policy versions, the system probably cannot distinguish canonical current policy from historical or archived variants strongly enough.

I would make version status explicit in metadata: effective date, superseded flag, publication state, and...

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