Celsus User Guide

Documents, Scope, and Case Memory

What goes into scope, why that matters, and how case memory supports later work.

Documents in scope

Celsus is designed to work from explicit scope.

That means the legal team should be able to see which documents are in play for a run.

Why scope matters

Scope controls help with:

  • confidentiality
  • relevance
  • cost control
  • auditability
  • reducing hallucinated or over-broad analysis

Recommended approach

Before running Celsus:

  1. confirm the current case
  2. confirm the relevant issue or thread
  3. confirm the selected documents
  4. confirm whether case memory should be included
  5. confirm whether authority sources are allowed

Case memory

Case memory is the durable structured record of important matter context.

It should capture things like:

  • key facts
  • issues
  • parties
  • timeline events
  • draft positions
  • unresolved questions

How to think about case memory

Case memory is not the same as raw chat history.

Use it as:

  • a persistent matter record
  • a way to preserve important context across runs
  • a place to keep accepted, reviewable matter knowledge

Practical rule

If something should shape later work in the matter, it should not live only in a transient answer. It should be captured in the durable case workflow.

When to be cautious

Do not rely heavily on an answer when:

  • the needed document was not in scope
  • parsing failed
  • the answer shows limitations or missing grounding
  • the question depends on a jurisdiction or authority source that was not provided