{"found":true,"collection":"patterns","library_url":"https://www.grokbotdb.com/library/pat.no-historical-backlog","generated":"2026-09-06T05:32:11Z","citation":["Quote the record id and its source_url (or provenance if there is no URL).","Include last_verified or observed_at when present. Do not present an old date as current.","If tier is community and confidence is low, say so. Do not launder it into a fact.","If the database does not hold the answer, say that. Do not invent Grok Bot product claims.","Contradictions are data: when conflicts_with is present, report both records rather than picking a favourite.","Deprecated and removed records stay visible. They are history, not current guidance."],"record":{"id":"pat.no-historical-backlog","name":"Never point triage at the whole archive","category":"cost","problem":"Pointing a triage Bot at a decade of history is the single most expensive first instruction available in the product.","technique":"Start any triage Bot on the last three days, and widen only after the output is right.","why_it_works":"It is the best-documented cause of a weekly allowance vanishing in a day.","when_to_use":"Inbox, ticket, document and archive triage.","when_not_to":"A deliberate one-off corpus search is different, and is a good first-week task; see the large-corpus pattern.","manual_ref":"2.4","evidence":"reported","attributed_to":"Craig Hewitt","related":["pat.big-corpus-first-week-task","pat.measure-cost-after-not-before"],"confidence":"high","first_seen":"2026-09-03","last_verified":"2026-09-03"}}