Structured Metadata And Export Standard

UNCLASSIFIED//OPEN SOURCE

Standard ID: WI-STD-006

Prepared UTC: 2026-06-18T18:30:00Z

Information cutoff UTC: 2026-06-18T18:30:00Z

Source base: WARLOCK-INDEX product standard, source evaluation standard, generated corpus export requirements, and current documentation structure.

Analytic confidence: High for repository metadata behavior and required field definitions.

Topics: tradecraft; metadata; export; source routing; audit

Source classes: Internal standard; generated corpus metadata

Safety boundary: Defines documentation metadata only. Does not create operational, collection, targeting, or technical exploitation requirements.

Purpose

This standard makes WARLOCK-INDEX products easier to use in analytic systems by giving each product a stable set of machine-readable fields. The static generator now exports the documentation corpus as browser JavaScript, JSON, and CSV.

Export Locations

site/corpus.js remains the browser and workspace corpus bundle.
site/workspace/corpus.js remains the workspace copy.
site/corpus.json is the machine-readable corpus export.
site/workspace/corpus.json is the workspace-local JSON export.
site/corpus-health.json is the generated corpus-health summary.
site/workspace/corpus-health.json is the workspace-local corpus-health summary.
site/corpus.csv is the tabular export for spreadsheet and data pipeline review.

Recommended Metadata Fields

Products should include these fields when the information is available:

Topics: Human-readable topical labels that can be more specific than generated topic hubs.
Actors: States, organizations, networks, sectors, or institutions materially covered by the product.
Source classes: Official, allied, vendor, vulnerability database, academic, legal, media, geospatial, maritime, or other source-class labels.
Safety boundary: Short statement of what the product does not provide.
Freshness status: Current, Watch, Stale, Gap, Superseded, or Reference.
Last source check UTC: UTC timestamp for the most recent source sweep.
Next refresh UTC: UTC timestamp or date for the next required review.
Caveat tags: Standard caveat labels from the confidence and caveat taxonomy.
Primary sources: Semicolon-separated source families or URLs.
Related products: Stable product IDs for connected products.

Generated Fields

The generator also derives:

sourceUrls: HTTP and HTTPS URLs found in the Markdown source.
sourceHash: Short SHA-256 hash of the Markdown source text.
metadataCompleteness: Percentage score for presence of key metadata fields.
refreshDue: Boolean derived from Next refresh UTC.
daysUntilRefresh: Days until the next recorded refresh date.
sourceHealthStatus: Derived status for triage: ready, watch, gap, refresh-due, stale, or needs-metadata.
sourceHealthFlags: Searchable flags explaining missing fields, watch/gap status, or refresh due state.
topics, badges, and tags: Generated routing, display, and search labels.
path: Generated site path for the rendered product.

Export Rules

Do not put classified, leaked, personal, or improperly obtained material into metadata fields.
Use source-class labels instead of long prose when possible.
Use Freshness status: Gap when the product identifies a source requirement but lacks a current capture.
Use Freshness status: Watch for rapidly changing topics that need repeated source checks.
Use Caveat tags to make uncertainty searchable across the corpus.
Use related product IDs for internal routing and avoid ambiguous prose-only references.
Treat generated health fields as workflow aids; they do not measure policy priority, operational value, or source truth.