Fast Review mode: The Ask Staff Assistant button uses a faster source-first search designed to finish within Netlify limits. Deep Research will be added as a longer background job flow.
Conversation-centered research mode: Ask follow-up questions like ChatGPT. The assistant carries forward the prior topic, retrieved sources, township overlay, WTPA interpretation context, and missing facts until you click New Topic.
Source-first mode: The assistant searches WTPA’s selected code books, ordinances, township overlays, and interpretation memos before explaining. It should not rely on public-memory section numbers as the source of truth.
Enter the staff password.
Guardrail: staff should verify retrieved code language against the official record before final action.