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

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# Citation checks

Proposal-only contract for Tilly's independent citation and evidence review across publication, funding, credential, and source-change gates. It checks whether supplied claims are supported, contradictions are surfaced, and review records preserve what was examined; it does not publish, approve commitments, grant credentials, or alter another agent's sources.

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

## Record status

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

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: contract

**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.

## Bounded contract

Proposal-only contract for Tilly's independent citation and evidence review across publication, funding, credential, and source-change gates. It checks whether supplied claims are supported, contradictions are surfaced, and review records preserve what was examined; it does not publish, approve commitments, grant credentials, or alter another agent's sources.

### Owners

- Tilly

- Pointguard and independent reviewer

### Inputs

- Draft claims or documents

- Citation and source references supplied by the requesting agent

- Evidence packets or grant dossiers

- Qualification records

- Requested review gate

- Declared contradictions or unresolved questions

### Outputs

- Citation review findings

- Claim-to-source support mapping

- Contradiction and gap register

- Evidence reconciliation notes

- Qualification or review recommendation marked proposal-only

- Gate status: supported, unsupported, conflicted, incomplete, or not reviewed

## Required or proposed record references

The list defines expected records; it does not assert that any record instance exists.

- Source reference for each reviewed claim

- Claim text or stable claim identifier

- Evidence packet or document under review

- Reviewer identity and independence declaration

- Review date or version identifier when available

- Contradiction record

- Disposition and escalation note

- Final publication, funding, credential, or source-change gate decision record

## Route contract

The links below are this site's admitted canonical public records. Source-lane route suggestions are proposals only and are not represented as live or canonical until separately admitted.

[01**overview**/docs/tools/citation-checks/](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/citation-checks/>)[02**usage**/docs/tools/citation-checks/usage/](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/citation-checks/usage/>)[03**boundaries**/docs/tools/citation-checks/boundaries/](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/citation-checks/boundaries/>)[04**qualification**/docs/tools/citation-checks/qualification/](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/citation-checks/qualification/>)

### Held source-proposed extensions

- /docs/citation-checks/contract: Defines scope, inputs, outputs, records, gates, and authority limits for citation review.

- /docs/citation-checks/workflow: Describes claim capture, source comparison, contradiction logging, reconciliation, escalation, and archival steps.

- /docs/citation-checks/failure-states: Lists unsupported, conflicting, incomplete, inaccessible, and self-review conditions with required handling.

- /docs/citation-checks/records: Specifies the minimum evidence, provenance, reviewer-independence, and disposition records.

- /docs/citation-checks/qualification: Explains that implementation, deployment, connection, and qualification remain unproven until separately recorded.

- /docs/citation-checks/overview

- /docs/citation-checks/source-record

- /docs/citation-checks/qualification

- /docs/citation-checks/evidence-reconciliation

- /docs/citation-checks/publication-gates

- /docs/citation-checks/never-rules

- /docs/citation-checks/accessibility-privacy-abuse

- /docs/citation-checks/source-and-authority-tests

- /docs/citation-checks/decision-records

These extension paths are not generated by this record and must not be treated as resolving routes.

## 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`

- `tool:citation-checks source record supplied in request`