Assistant: capabilities and limits

A walkthrough (fictional)

Fictional matter — demonstration: Invented names and facts; nothing here is a real client, party, court or filing.

Every name, party, court and matter below is invented for illustration.

1. An invented attorney asks what the Meridian Data Systems, LLC NDA says about the confidentiality term; the assistant routes to the matter's documents and answers from them, citing the passage.
2. Asked to predict whether a court would enforce the clause, it declines and offers the War Room for preparation.

Mechanisms

• —The desk router
• —Grounded answers over the matter's documents through the authorization spine
• —The no-prediction and UPL guards

Limits

• —Answers come from the matter's documents and the platform's registries, not from general knowledge presented as law
• —Attorney lane only

What this desk refuses

From the refusals catalogue (6 rows apply); the full catalogue is at /refusals.

• Representation of any kind: filing, service, negotiation with a party, or appearance, for anyone.

  A licensed attorney represents; the platform prepares.

• Predicting an outcome, a ruling or a bench's decision.

  The passage is flagged for the attorney; the War Room prepares questions, it never forecasts.

• Reaching a matter, review, draft, comparison or governed version that belongs to another tenant, or through a removed membership.

  Work inside an active membership of the matter's tenant.

• Reaching a matter the user is screened from, on any surface, including background execution.

  The firm lifts the wall in the record; authorized colleagues keep their work.

• Sending a byte to a vendor outside the permitted list, over a non-https scheme, to a private network, or with a data class the vendor is not cleared for.

  The owner reviews the constant; the surface reports the refusal instead of substituting a vendor.

• A request path carrying a literal or encoded backslash, an invalid escape, double encoding or a control character.

  Request the route as published.

Inputs

• —A question, optionally scoped to a matter

Outputs

• —A routed desk or a grounded answer with its source passage