Non-Goals
PreFlight — Deterministic Upstream Data Ingestion Gate
Scope Exclusion
- Non-goals reflect enforcement engine behavior only
- PreFlight v1.01 remains narrowly bounded to deterministic ingestion safety evaluation
- Capabilities outside mechanically provable ingestion properties remain out of scope
Data Transformation
PreFlight does not modify input datasets.
- No normalization
- No restructuring
- No enrichment
- No repair
- No corrective mutation
Datasets are evaluated exactly as received.
Semantic Evaluation
PreFlight does not evaluate meaning, intent, or business correctness.
- No business rule evaluation
- No domain inference
- No semantic interpretation
- No schema intent inference
Semantic validity remains outside enforcement scope.
Quality Assessment
PreFlight does not grade, score, or rank datasets.
- No probabilistic ranking
- No completeness scoring
- No quality estimation
- No value assessment
Enforcement evaluates ingestion safety only.
Remediation & Recommendation
PreFlight does not recommend corrective actions.
- No automated fixes
- No suggested schema rewrites
- No inferred data repair strategies
Responsibility for correction remains external to enforcement.
Workflow & Orchestration
PreFlight does not orchestrate downstream systems.
- No scheduling
- No retries
- No dependency coordination
- No workflow execution
Operational control exists outside the enforcement engine.
Adaptive Behavior
PreFlight does not learn from historical inputs.
- No feedback loops
- No heuristic adjustment
- No model training
Execution rules remain deterministic and fixed.
System Form
PreFlight is an enforcement engine, not a platform.
- No extensible runtime surface
- No interactive orchestration layer
Scope remains enforcement-only.
Operational Posture
- Upstream
- Deterministic
- Mechanical
- Auditable
- Non-interactive