Lab entry

Retrieval Flow Study

Lab study of how users traverse from browse indexes to detail routes and search in a content-dense archive.

Trust state: reviewed
Experiment kind: retrieval flow
Maturity: study

Placeholder cover until a retrieval-flow diagram is published.

This study tracks retrieval behavior across browse and direct-search paths without introducing analytics or external telemetry.

Findings

Route-level consistency is strongest when index cards always resolve to detail records.
Search remains useful when scopes map directly to collection route families.
Governance drift in prompt/docs references can create retrieval confusion even when route code is correct.

Next steps

Add more records per collection to stress-test retrieval density under larger result sets.
Keep route/content/search mappings audited whenever a new collection or detail route is introduced.