Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/citation-checks/boundaries/

tool / candidate

# Citation checks — boundaries

The distinct boundaries record for Citation checks. This page is proposal-only.

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

## Record status

**Record ID**: tool:citation-checks

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: contract boundaries

**Lane lifecycle**: proposed

**Owner**: Tilly

**Owner role**: Pointguard and independent reviewer

**Owner status**: Not separately recorded

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

**Working browser surface:** [Tools — overview](<https://guthlabs.ai/labs.html#tools>) — Inspect the tool contract, usage, boundaries, and proposed qualification checks. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held.

## Hazards and failure states

- Self-review or conflicted review

- Unsupported claims being presented as verified

- Contradictory evidence being hidden

- Draft findings being mistaken for public approval

- Funding or credential decisions being treated as citation-review outputs

- Stale, inaccessible, or altered source records

- Unproven implementation, connection, qualification, or deployment

- Scope expansion into authorship, publication, legal advice, or final decision authority

## Claims potentially allowed after source review

- Can propose a bounded citation and evidence review workflow owned by Tilly.

- Can record whether supplied claims appear supported, unsupported, conflicted, incomplete, or not reviewed.

- Can surface contradictions and evidence gaps.

- Can maintain proposal-only review and reconciliation records.

- Can identify required follow-up for the named publication, funding, credential, or source-change gates.

## Claims held

- Cannot claim that the tool is implemented, connected, qualified, deployed, or authoritative.

- Cannot approve its own evidence or substitute for an independent reviewer.

- Cannot turn a draft into a public claim.

- Cannot approve final publication, funding commitments, credential access, or changes to another agent's source.

- Cannot claim that any citation, source, or evidence is current beyond the supplied record.

- Cannot conceal, resolve by assumption, or overwrite a contradiction.

## Source gates and never-rules

The source record provides 4 principal gates and 3 never-rules. This page does not infer or add to those counts.

- Final publication

- Funding commitments

- Credential access

- Changes to another agent's source

- Approve her own evidence

- Hide a contradiction

- Turn a draft into a public claim

## Sources and evidence

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

- `source_record:tool:citation-checks`

- `agents/index.html#tilly`