# Scope Descriptor — Template

Copy this file alongside a run's archive output and fill it in. One descriptor per run.

- **Matter / Project:**
- **Scope searched:** (search term, and/or domain(s), and/or specific person)
- **Sources searched:** (each mailbox searched, with owner name and address)
- **Method(s) used per source:** (Method A — O365 Graph API / Method B — manual HTML reconciliation / Method C — IMAP)
- **Date range covered:**
- **Run date:**
- **Counts:** messages found / messages archived / duplicates skipped (already-archived) / errors or skipped items
- **Archive location:** (path to the `- EML\` and `- Sidecars\` folders this descriptor belongs to)
- **Notes:** anything specific to this run worth recording (e.g., known gaps, messages that couldn't be resolved, manual vs scripted split)

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# Example — Generic Worked Run

**This example is genericized — it preserves the real structure and reasoning of an actual production run, with all client-identifying details replaced.**

- **Matter / Project:** Example Matter — a transition/offboarding dispute between two organizations
- **Scope searched:** All correspondence with the counterparty organization regarding the matter (their domain, plus internal threads directly referencing the matter)
- **Sources searched:**
  - Person A's mailbox (persona@example-org.com)
  - Person B's mailbox (personb@example-org.com)
- **Method(s) used per source:**
  - Person A's mailbox: Method B (manual reconciliation list, downloaded via Outlook Web one-by-one) — 145 messages
  - Person B's mailbox: Method A (Microsoft Graph API device-code flow, scripted) for 53 new (non-overlapping) messages identified via Internet Message-ID reconciliation against Person A's already-downloaded set
- **Date range covered:** through the run date
- **Run date:** (date of this run)
- **Counts:** 198 unique messages across both mailboxes reconciled by Internet Message-ID; 201 total physical files consolidated into the master dump (3 additional files accounted for by split/duplicate entries in the original manifest); 0 write errors on final build
- **Archive location:** `Example_Matter - EML\` and `Example_Matter - Sidecars\`
- **Notes:** Consolidates two per-mailbox dumps into one chronologically renumbered master set. Sidecars are plain text (not markdown) because output may be shared externally. A large signature/reaction-image noise cluster (432 files, ~11.2 MB) was identified and moved to a review folder rather than deleted.