{"slug":"canonical/07-INGESTION-FOUR-FLOWS-AND-GOVERNED-WRITES","title":"07 — Ingestion, Four Flows, Normalization and Governed Writes","section":"canonical","sectionLabel":"Canon","status":"canon","type":"document","path":"canonical/07-INGESTION-FOUR-FLOWS-AND-GOVERNED-WRITES.md","bytes":1524,"description":null,"updated":null,"source":"integratewise/Integratewise-docs-wiki","content":"\n**Canonical reference:** `00-SPINEWORKSPACE-INTEGRATEWISE-CANON.md` §16  \n**Status:** Canonical\n\n---\n\n## 1. Gateway\n\nGateway is the tenant-aware ingress boundary for validation, tracing, rate limits and routing.\n\n## 2. Loader Runtime\n\nLoader Runtime is the sole outer ingestion and canonical-write entry. It routes data through four flows.\n\n### Flow A — Structured Operational\n\nEntities, transactions, metrics, lifecycle changes, provider events and structured relationships.\n\n### Flow B — Unstructured Context\n\nDocuments, messages, email, meetings, transcripts, files, chunks, embeddings/search representations and evidence.\n\n### Flow C — AI and Cognitive Continuity\n\nTwin sessions, AI proposals, candidate memory/knowledge, synthesis and promotion candidates.\n\n### Flow D — Platform Binding and Control\n\nIdentity, configuration, connectors, capabilities, policy, execution, sync and observability state.\n\n## 3. Normalizer and Triage\n\nNormalizer handles deterministic parsing, validation, mapping, resolution, deduplication and entity preparation. Triage handles ambiguous, AI-originated, conversational and knowledge candidates, preparing them for governed promotion.\n\nTriage classifies. Governance authorizes. Governed Writers commit.\n\n## 4. Governed Spine Writers\n\nCanonical writes enforce tenant scope, schema, policy, provenance, evidence, idempotency and atomicity. Neither an agent nor an execution runtime writes canonical truth directly.\n"}