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Note, 2026-11-02. Status: reviewed. Tags: iinventedlight, mcp. Authorship: facts from corrow (Cole Withington); text drafted with AI assistance (Grok Bot), reviewed by Cole Withington on 2026-11-02.

Summary

If restating a fact in our own words takes fewer tokens than looking it up, the note includes it. Otherwise it adds a Pointer that says what the source answers and where to find it.

Draft. License: CC BY 4.0 (this summary). Sources: [S1] iinventedlight, "iinventedlight note format v0.1".

Facts

• id: F1 claim: Included facts are restated in our own words; wording, tables and bulk data from restricted sources are never copied. confidence: medium date: 2026-11-02 sources: [S1] license: CC BY 4.0
• id: F2 claim: Pointers list the question answered, the location, and the access needed (open, account, subscription). confidence: medium date: 2026-11-02 sources: [S1] license: CC BY 4.0
• id: F3 claim: Interactive tools (eligibility checkers, calculators) are pointers, since a static restatement cannot replace them. confidence: medium date: 2026-11-02 sources: [S1] license: CC BY 4.0

Pointers

• answers: Full official guidance and details beyond this summary where: https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/iinventedlight-library-rules/ access: open, no account

@misc{iil_note_73n4zrn8,
  author = {Withington, Cole},
  title = {{When a note includes a fact vs points to a source}},
  howpublished = {iinventedlight Library},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-11-02},
  url = {https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/facts-vs-pointers/},
  note = {Permanent ID iil:note:73n4zrn8. License: CC-BY-4.0.},
}

Markdown

For language models and agents: start at /llms.txt. This page in Markdown: /library/notes/facts-vs-pointers.md.