Build an AI helper that answers from your sources, shows what supports the answer, and says “not in your sources” when it cannot verify something.
A confident answer is not the same as a supported answer. In this practical Flash Mission, you will build a Source Keeper: a bounded AI helper that works from your approved source material, identifies what supports its answer, and refuses to fill in what the sources do not establish. You will leave with a reusable structure for defining what your helper can do, what it must not do, what evidence it needs, and where a person still has to confirm the decision.
What you leave with
By the end, you will have a working Source Keeper with:
Practical, captioned video clips that introduce the one move before the live build. Watch any one on its own. The Primer is the fast way into the idea — the Thursday evening live build is where you do it on your own real work.
A helper can sound completely certain when the source material does not actually establish the claim. Confidence is a tone, not evidence.
Build it here
The canvas asks for a source boundary and an evidence rule before any question.
Use it there
Where this shows up in the wild:
Any AI chat or helper can sound certain unless you give it a source boundary and an evidence rule.
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Use approved sources. Show what supports the answer. If the sources do not support it, say: “Not in my sources.”
Build it here
Fill in the canvas to write your Source Keeper Brief.
Use it there
Your Source Keeper Brief can become:
The structure travels. Your organization decides which tool and source location are approved.
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Your helper can surface evidence and identify gaps. A person still owns approval, judgment, and consequential decisions.
Build it here
The canvas names the stop condition and what you still confirm yourself.
Use it there
The tool may call this a Project, Gem, Agent, or custom assistant.
The responsibility does not change: show the evidence, name the gap, and stop before the human-owned decision.
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No confidential material in unapproved tools. When you are unsure, use a safe sample or a redacted source set.
Free to watch, for everyone.
Seven boxes: your sources, the job, the limits, the evidence rule, the stop condition, one real test question, and what you still confirm yourself.
Open the canvas →Build it here → Use it there
Build your Source Keeper Brief on the canvas. Your Source Keeper Brief can become:
The structure travels. Your organization decides which tool and source location are approved.
No confidential material in unapproved tools. When you are unsure, use a safe sample or a redacted source set.
Now Make It Work
Give AI a bounded job. Keep the decision human.
You just tested whether your Source Keeper fails safely. Now give it a useful home outside this screen.
1. Keep this
Your Source Keeper Brief
The approved source set, the question types it can answer, the evidence rule, and the human handoff.
2. Put it here
Recommended
If you will use this more than once, create a Project, Gem, approved AI helper, or equivalent approved workspace. Add the Source Keeper Brief as its instructions and add only approved sources as its context. If this is a one-time need, save the brief as a prompt and keep the source links beside it.
This is guidance, not a required tool.
3. Use it when
4. It may do this
5. I still own this
Your organization decides where material is allowed to live. The tool may call it a Project, Gem, knowledge source, shared workspace, saved prompt, or something else. The important parts stay the same: the boundary, the evidence rule, the refusal rule, and the human handoff.
The names vary. The boundary, evidence rule, refusal rule, and human handoff do not.
Do not paste confidential, personal, regulated, client, or otherwise sensitive material into a tool unless your organization has approved that use. Start with a safe example or an approved source set.
Your Source Keeper Brief, built from your entries above. It stays in this browser — nothing is uploaded.
Ask your Source Keeper one question your sources do not answer. Check that it identifies the gap instead of inventing an answer. Then name the person or source needed to close it.
Want a second set of eyes on your source set or helper boundary? Circle gives you one structured Artifact Review each month and a live Review Room.
