Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/jobs/socrates-source-comparison/field-guides/

job / candidate

# Source comparison — field guides

The distinct field guides record for Source comparison. This page is proposal-only.

Status: **proposed**Lifecycle: **candidate**

## Record status

**Record ID**: job:socrates:source-comparison

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: docs_urls

**Lane lifecycle**: proposed

**Owner**: Socrates

**Owner role**: University guide and tutor entity

**Owner status**: PROPOSED

**Qualification result**: NOT RUN · held for evidence and human review

**Working browser surface:** [Agent jobs — builder overview](<https://guthlabs.ai/guth.html#builder>) — Inspect the package and stage a local project. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held.

## Related field-guide records

- /app/notebook/field-guides/

Source-proposed guide paths are references, not proof that those paths resolve.

## Operating sequence

- Capture the learner question, intended use, audience, level, and deadline.

- Confirm that each candidate source has an identifiable source record or mark it unavailable; never fabricate a primary source.

- Record source metadata, locator, provenance, excerpt, and revision information in Notebook.

- Extract claims separately from commentary, preserving quotations and locations where available.

- Normalize only for comparison purposes; retain the original wording and disclose material interpretation choices.

- Map comparable claims across sources and label agreement, contradiction, different scope, omission, or unresolved status.

- Record evidence gaps, disputed material, and confidence without converting uncertainty into fact.

- Draft a bounded learning path with prerequisites, questions for further inquiry, and explicit source links.

- Create review todos and route high-stakes instruction, student identity data, external enrollment, or published curriculum claims to human review.

- Save the comparison, receipts, revisions, and authority notes; present the result as a proposal until reviewed.

## Handoff boundary

- A secondary summary may be mistaken for a primary source.

- Conflicting interpretations may be flattened into a false consensus.

- Missing or inaccessible evidence may be mistaken for evidence of absence.

- Tutoring language may be read as institutional, legal, medical, academic, or enrollment authority.

- Student identity data may be captured unnecessarily or exposed in shared context.

- High-stakes instruction may proceed without qualified human review.

- Citation metadata may be incomplete, stale, or incorrectly attributed.

- Local prototype routes may be mistaken for connected web features or publication surfaces.

- Automated drafting may overstate confidence or conceal disputed evidence.

- Deadline pressure may encourage skipping source verification and revision receipts.

## Sources and evidence

These pointers bind the page to evidence. They do not grant authority or collapse verification into deployment.

- `agents/index.html#socrates`

- `source_record:job:socrates:source-comparison`

- `observed_native_contract:project_and_field_guide_collections`

- `observed_native_contract:deadlines`

- `observed_native_contract:records`

- `observed_native_contract:pointguard`

- `app_route:/app/pointguard/`

- `app_route:/app/notebook/notes/`

- `app_route:/app/notebook/files/`

- `app_route:/app/notebook/projects/`

- `app_route:/app/notebook/approvals/`

- `app_route:/app/notebook/field-guides/`

- `app_route:/app/notebook/agent-logs/`

- `app_route:/app/notebook/search/`

- `app_route:/app/notebook/to-dos/`

- `app_route:/app/notebook/today/`

- `allowed_instruments:verified_clean_only`

- `observed_native_contract:web_boundary`