When a synthesis pipeline produces wrong quotes but the retrieval layer still returns correct source material, the bug lives in the presentation layer, not in retrieval. This distinction matters because it changes the fix: presentation issues can be patched in the rendered output without re-ingesting or re-indexing the underlying corpus. Conflating the two leads to unnecessary re-processing of correctly stored data.
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