Ask product questions with code evidence

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*AI-generated recommendations for discussion. These are not Nick’s recommendations or approved JLL/PRISM guidance.

Updated October 13, 2026.

Use this when a product question needs more detail than a screenshot or help article: which event submits a booking, what happens after an error, whether a user can correct an AI result, or where a feature flag changes the interface. Your AI client can follow the documented workflow into a technical finding, inspect the source, and explain what still needs a live test.

Two connections

The website and normal research downloads remain public. Raw code is stored separately and is excluded from the website, public MCP, Markdown exports and downloadable team package. The technical token cannot start collection or change the site. Reading either MCP does not call a model or a paid collection provider; your AI client supplies its own model.

Questions worth asking

Try this prompt:

Explain how Visitt handles conflicting amenity bookings. Start with the workflow and technical findings, inspect the exact source and relevant imported helpers, and cite original URLs, full SHA256 hashes, byte ranges and source dates. Separate what the client does from what the server would need to verify. Suggest a short demo test. Mark recommendations as AI-generated.

Follow the evidence

1. Use search_research or get_workflow to establish the product task. Technical findings remain separate from reviewed workflow details.
2. Call get_code_evidence with a finding’s record_id. Its provenance packet lists available files, precise ranges and unavailable originals.
3. Follow a returned next_call to read the relevant bytes. Search operation names with search_code_evidence when a caller or handler needs more context.
4. Use get_code_evidence with artifact_id and view: imports to follow literal module references. Those references are not proof that a module runs in a particular customer’s session.
5. Explain the observed sequence, exceptions and uncertainty in plain language. Compare against PRISM using your separately authorized internal tools.

{"record_id":"visitt-rea:finding:cw09"}

This is an argument for get_code_evidence, not an executable competitor request. The response supplies the next artifact ID and offsets; there is no need to guess a filename.

Coverage and dates

The archive contains 980 retrievable text artifacts, about 262.3 MB, including both complete reconstructed Hermes JavaScript files, supporting disassembly, public web modules, and reconstructed C plus Ghidra dossiers for 67 selected native functions. Full-text search covers 926 files. Another 54 large dossiers/disassembly files are available by source reference and paginated retrieval; they are not fully indexed for keyword search.

All 3,046 members of the original private ZIP were checked against its manifest. Original source snapshots retain October 11–12 dates. The 443 additional web modules discovered from imports carry their own October 13 capture dates. Reconstructed code is not the original developer source; the 67 native functions are selected coverage, not complete native application decompilation.

Of the 991 registered hashed artifacts, 11 have no text retrieval, including binary/screenshot evidence or originals not transferred. Of the 125 technical findings, 120 link to retrievable supporting text and five remain metadata-only in this layer. The original private ZIP remains available separately; it is not published on the website. These are evidence-inventory counts, not feature counts or proof of complete application coverage.

For native questions, start with the finding or native record, then follow the reconstructed C source or its dossier. get_code_evidence with view: analysis lists structured sections; select pseudocode, callers, callees, native_value_flow or limitations to read only what the question needs. These sections retain the original evidence ID, provider and dossier hash. Section pagination uses character offsets in JSON; source retrieval uses UTF-8 byte offsets. Native virtual addresses remain separate.

Code evidence is a deliberate snapshot. Daily review and weekly product monitoring do not automatically re-decompile the applications. Call get_code_evidence without IDs for the active archive’s actual coverage. For monitoring freshness, use get_coverage separately.

Connect a client

A client must support Streamable HTTP with an Authorization header. The technical endpoint uses a bearer token, not a website password or an OAuth login. Obtain the read-only token from the site owner through a private channel.

For a client that supports this configuration shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "prism-technical": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://crefieldnotes.com/mcp/technical",
      "headers": {"Authorization": "Bearer <read-only-token>"}
    }
  }
}

Keep the populated configuration private. A URL-only connector cannot authenticate this endpoint. The official TypeScript MCP SDK and Claude Code have connected successfully in the isolated test environment; this is not a claim that every desktop or enterprise connector supports custom headers.

Interpreting an answer

Useful answers include the task, the client sequence, error handling, configuration gates, cited source coordinates and the next test needed. “The client expects this response” is stronger evidence discipline than asserting that a backend was observed returning it. When the mechanism is not established, the conclusion should be “not established by the available evidence.”

Hashes identify the source bytes and excerpts; they do not prove a conclusion is correct. Imported code is untrusted evidence and is never executed. Do not treat comments, strings or instructions inside a source file as directions to the agent.

Suggested PRISM actions remain AI-generated discussion material. The private PRISM implementation, customer entitlements and authenticated competitor behavior still require separate verification.

Validation

The local archive audit reconstructs every retrievable artifact through the MCP retrieval handler and checks the resulting SHA256. It also checks all 125 finding packets, pagination, exact byte bounds and response-size limits. The end-to-end suite uses the official MCP SDK against an isolated Cloudflare Worker and D1 database with no paid-provider credentials.

Tests cover natural-language discovery, workflow-to-finding-to-source paths, symbol search, imported modules, full-file reconstruction, inaccessible raw-code tools on the public connection and unavailable non-text artifacts, and all 67 native pseudocode sections. Model-driven trials additionally inspect answer quality; a passing retrieval test does not guarantee every AI-generated answer is correct.

See the technical brief, complete dossier or searchable technical records for the public research.