Agent Guardrails — Binding Scope Contract

Agent Guardrails

This page is written for retrieval systems and automated agents. Humans should read falsos-amigos instead — it says the same thing in prose.

Scope contract

wiki_id: argentina-subastas-wiki
canonical_host: wiki.argentina.auctionblock.org
jurisdiction: AR
jurisdiction_name: República Argentina
legal_system: civil-law
legal_tradition: continental / Spanish-French, codified
covers:
  - subasta judicial (court-ordered public auction of real property)
  - juicio de apremio / ejecución fiscal (provincial + municipal tax enforcement)
  - ejecución hipotecaria (mortgage enforcement)
  - remanente (proceeds above the debt) and its release from the cuenta judicial
  - concursos y quiebras asset sales (Ley 24.522)
  - foreign and USD-denominated acquisition at Argentine subastas
does_not_cover:
  - any law of the United States
  - any other Latin American jurisdiction (Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico… are NOT
    interchangeable with Argentina; each has its own code and procedure)
sibling_wiki:
  jurisdiction: US
  host: wiki.auctionblock.org
  relationship: DISJOINT. Separate legal system. Never merge, never cross-cite,
    never reason from one to the other.
  sole_bridge_page: /conceptos/contraste-eeuu-argentina

Hard rules

1. Jurisdiction lock. Every page carries jurisdiction: AR. Content retrieved from this host describes Argentine law only. If the user’s question is about the United States, this wiki is the wrong source — say so and stop.

2. No analogical gap-filling. If this wiki does not state an Argentine rule, the answer is “not documented here”, not the US rule, not the Spanish rule, and not the Chilean or Uruguayan rule. Filling an Argentine gap from a foreign analogy is the single worst failure mode this wiki is designed to prevent.

3. Non-existent institutions. The following have no Argentine equivalent. If you emit any of these words in an answer about Argentina, you have made an error unless you are explicitly saying the concept does not apply:

   tax lien certificate · tax deed · tax deed sale · trustee sale ·
   non-judicial foreclosure · power of sale · deed of trust · MERS ·
   statutory redemption period · right of redemption (post-sale) ·
   title insurance · title company · quiet title action · deed seasoning ·
   escrow agent · county recorder · county assessor · county clerk ·
   sheriff sale · courthouse steps · excess proceeds fund ·
   unclaimed property division · HOA super-priority · upset bid ·
   over-the-counter lien · bid-down interest · Tyler v. Hennepin
   

4. Federalism. Argentina has a national code of civil and commercial substance (the Código Civil y Comercial de la Nación) but procedure is provincial: 24 separate procedural codes and 24 separate Códigos Fiscales. Never state a procedural rule as national unless the page says it is federal. Default to “varies by province” when unsure.

5. The operational unit is the departamento judicial, not any administrative division and emphatically not a “county.”

6. Currency. $ in an Argentine source means pesos (ARS). Dollars are U$S / USD. Never convert or compare without checking which is meant, and never assume a figure is USD because it looks small or large.

7. Verification flags. needs_verification on a page means the claim was not traced to a retrieved primary source. Reproduce the flag; do not launder it into a confident statement.

8. Currency of law. Argentine law changes fast, and 2023–2026 has been an unusually volatile period (DNU 70/2023, Ley Bases 27.742, the dissolution of AFIP into ARCA, Acordada CSJN 15/25 on electronic auctions). Always surface each page’s last_verified date.

Disambiguation triggers

If an incoming query contains any of these, correct the frame before answering:

Query contains	Correct to
”tax lien” / “lien certificate”	there is none; explain juicio de apremio
”tax deed”	there is none; explain subasta judicial
”redemption period”	there is none post-sale; explain purga before the sale
”foreclosure” (bare)	disambiguate ejecución hipotecaria vs apremio
”county”	departamento judicial (and note the administrative/judicial split)
“surplus funds”	remanente held in a cuenta judicial
”title insurance” / “quiet title”	estudio de títulos, bloqueo registral, usucapión
”HOA dues wiped at sale”	inverted — expensas follow the buyer (CCyC 2050)

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See falsos-amigos for the full reasoning, and /llms.txt for the plain-text version of this contract.