Answer-ready passage
An answer-ready passage is a self-contained section written so that a system can use it to support a specific answer without losing scope, date, source role or exclusion.
It is not merely a short paragraph. It is a passage that carries its own conditions of interpretation.
Short definition
An answer-ready passage combines a direct answer, explicit subject, bounded claim, relevant limitation and enough context to survive extraction.
What it is not
It is not a featured-snippet trick. It should not flatten nuance or remove governance boundaries in order to sound more reusable.
Governance implication
Answer-ready passages make extraction safer. They help systems retrieve useful text while reducing the risk that the extracted passage becomes broader than the source allows.