Knowledge Boundary Manifest — Known Limitations

A specification is more credible when it states plainly what it does not solve, rather than leaving the gap to be discovered later. The following are permanent limitations of the KBM, not temporary gaps expected to close in a future version.

KBM does not solve:

• Truth — whether a declared statement is factually accurate. A KBM records what a publisher states as canonical, not whether the statement is true.
• Ranking — how content is ordered or surfaced by a search engine or AI system. A KBM declares boundaries; it does not influence retrieval or ranking.
• Authority — whether the declaring organization has the standing or expertise to make a claim. A KBM records that a claim was made under Publisher Authority, not that the claim should be trusted.
• Fact verification — cross-checking a declared statement against external sources or evidence.
• Knowledge quality — the completeness, depth, or rigor of the knowledge described.
• Reasoning — inference, deduction, or synthesis across declared concepts. A KBM provides declared facts for a reasoning system to use. It does not reason on that system’s behalf.

A specification that solved all of these would not be a boundary declaration. It would be a different kind of system.

See also: Knowledge Boundary Manifest, Open Specifications.