Add a Freshness Gate Before Your RAG Model Call

Retrieval systems usually rank documents by relevance. Production knowledge workflows need another question: Is this source still valid for the task? A highly relevant document may be archived, superseded, or too old for a time-sensitive answer. Sending it directly to a model can produce a fluent response built on expired context. Put freshness between retrieval and generation User query ↓ Retriever ↓ Metadata enrichment ↓ Freshness and status gate ↓ Coverage check ↓ Model endpoint The…