# Linkset Extraction Prep — PREP-EXCITITOR-CORE-AOC-19-002-LINKSET-EXTRAC

Status: Draft (2025-11-20)
Owners: Excititor Core Guild
Scope: Identify the extraction rules and ordering needed to produce linksets from VEX/advisory inputs before idempotent raw upsert work starts.

## Required content to unblock
- Canonical linkset schema version (pending Cartographer/Concelier alignment); need field list and conflict markers.
- Source ranking/precedence table shared with Concelier LNM 21-002 fixtures.

## Proposed extraction rules (draft)
- Inputs: advisory documents (component PURLs, version ranges, references, severities, CVSS vectors); output: linkset entries with `advisory_id`, `component_purl`, `version_range`, `references[]`, `severity`, `cvss`.
- Ordering: sort entries by `(component_purl, advisory_id, version_range)`; within references, sort lexicographically.
- Conflict handling: if multiple sources disagree, emit `conflicts[]` with `source`, `field`, `reason`; never collapse values.
- Determinism: no wall-clock; timestamps only from source payloads (UTC ISO-8601) and preserved as-is.

## Handoff
Treat this as the prep artefact for PREP-EXCITITOR-CORE-AOC-19-002-LINKSET-EXTRAC. Once the shared linkset schema and precedence table land, finalize the rules and move the sprint task to DONE.