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  "applied_source_ids": [
    "D01",
    "D02",
    "P03",
    "P07",
    "P08",
    "P11",
    "P13",
    "P14",
    "P18",
    "P21",
    "P23",
    "P25",
    "P26",
    "P27",
    "P28",
    "P29",
    "P30",
    "P34",
    "P40",
    "P42",
    "P47",
    "P48",
    "P49",
    "P54"
  ],
  "effect_guarantee": false,
  "limitations": [
    "Benefits vary by model capability, query wording, engine, and measurement time.",
    "Citation presence cannot be converted into conventional ranking or commercial traffic effects.",
    "No reviewed source establishes a universal live-platform effect."
  ],
  "principles": [
    {
      "allowed_use": "guardrail",
      "causal_status": "mixed",
      "claim_classes": [
        "benchmark",
        "governance",
        "null-result",
        "observational-correlation"
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "No reviewed source establishes a universal live-platform effect."
      ],
      "platform_scope": [
        "study-specific engines",
        "offline benchmarks",
        "static platform snapshots"
      ],
      "principle_id": "effect-claims-require-direct-measurement",
      "proxy_variables": [
        "influence_score",
        "readiness_score",
        "visibility_score"
      ],
      "required_controls": [
        "label proxies",
        "preserve null results",
        "prohibit effect guarantees"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "P13",
        "P18",
        "P25",
        "P42",
        "P54",
        "D01",
        "D02"
      ],
      "summary": "GEO drafting and readiness outputs do not establish citation, ranking, traffic, conversion, or revenue effects.",
      "surfaces": [
        "all"
      ]
    },
    {
      "allowed_use": "planning-hypothesis",
      "causal_status": "benchmark-conditional",
      "claim_classes": [
        "benchmark",
        "mechanism",
        "null-result",
        "observational-correlation"
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Benefits vary by model capability, query wording, engine, and measurement time."
      ],
      "platform_scope": [
        "agentic search benchmarks",
        "selected generative engines",
        "query-specific observations"
      ],
      "principle_id": "query-diversity-is-conditional",
      "proxy_variables": [
        "query coverage",
        "retrieval recall"
      ],
      "required_controls": [
        "deduplicate variants",
        "record locale and audience",
        "retain parent query lineage"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "P03",
        "P07",
        "P08",
        "P14",
        "P21",
        "P23",
        "P47",
        "P48",
        "P49"
      ],
      "summary": "Query and intent diversity can improve coverage in selected agentic benchmarks and should remain a testable planning hypothesis.",
      "surfaces": [
        "geo-discover",
        "geo-measure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "allowed_use": "boundary-only",
      "causal_status": "mixed",
      "claim_classes": [
        "benchmark",
        "governance",
        "mechanism",
        "observational-correlation"
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Citation presence cannot be converted into conventional ranking or commercial traffic effects."
      ],
      "platform_scope": [
        "traditional retrieval",
        "generative search",
        "conceptual marketing frameworks"
      ],
      "principle_id": "seo-and-geo-share-an-upstream-retrieval-boundary",
      "proxy_variables": [
        "SERP rank",
        "retrieval rank"
      ],
      "required_controls": [
        "exclude search-volume claims",
        "exclude keyword-difficulty claims",
        "exclude traffic attribution",
        "retain offline query variants"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "P11",
        "P13",
        "P18",
        "P21",
        "P23",
        "P26",
        "P27",
        "P28",
        "P29",
        "P30",
        "P34",
        "P40"
      ],
      "summary": "Traditional retrieval remains upstream while offline query variants remain a bounded Discover planning capability.",
      "surfaces": [
        "geo",
        "geo-discover",
        "SEO-GEO-boundary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "protocol_version": "1.0.0",
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
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  "source_commit": "90ad40cf059f300f23fd874353767e1d19ccb815",
  "surface": "geo-discover"
}