A Pack is a cited slice, not a verdict

A Pack is a cited slice of records already on the index, assembled so a person or another model can read them with the sources attached. It is not a finding. It does not allege. It does not become true because it was bundled. Quote the paper, the row, or the register inside it. Do not quote the Pack as the record.

How to use Pack and the Institrace API sets the limit. A key can search, open a paper, and pin into an investigation the account already keeps. The key does not download the zip. You do that yourself. The practical steps are on the API page. This note is not the request specification.

A pin points at a record. It does not attach two records, and it does not pull in every paper a body has published. If you wanted a paper in the file, pin that paper. Your notes are yours. The index does not read them, and they are not the council's words.

If a model answers with a smooth paragraph and no file address, ask for the address before you use the paragraph. The address is the body page, the Commission row, the title number, or the member. A summary can still be useful. Label it as a summary. Put it under the citations, not instead of them.

Empty rows in a slice mean the slice had no such rows. They do not mean nobody was paid, nobody donated, or nobody owned land. Say what was asked and what came back. Birmingham City Council and Parliament are public places to start. The Pack, if you build one, cites what you opened there. It does not replace those pages.

The bodies published the files. The index is only how you found them. The index is how you found them. The conclusion, if you draw one, is yours, and it should be marked as yours.

Hand a reader the contents list before the prose. If they cannot see the file addresses, they cannot check you, and an unchecked Pack is just a document with a confident tone. Confidence is not a source. The source is the row you pinned. A trial account can build a small Pack and see the shape. It cannot turn the Pack into the council's view, the Commission's view, or Parliament's view. Those bodies published their own files. You assembled a slice. Say assembled. The word matters. Do not claim a discovery. You made a reading list. Keep the smaller verb, and keep the addresses where a stranger can press them. If the address needs an account, say that too.

The zip, when an account downloads it, is the text held for the papers that were pinned, plus the address of the original, up to the cap on that account. It is a reading copy. It is not the body's archive, and it is not every paper the body has issued. A pin on a body does not fill the zip with that body. Check the contents list before you hand the file to anyone else. If a paper is missing, you did not pin it.

A key asks questions on an investigation you already keep. It does not see your notes as minutes. It does not widen the account. If the answer comes back without an address, do not paste it into a Pack as if the address were implied. Ask again. Pricing says what a trial includes. The API page says how a key is made. Neither page is a verdict on a council.