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

tool / candidate

# Citation sextant — boundaries

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

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

## Record status

**Record ID**: tool:citation-sextant

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: contract boundaries

**Lane lifecycle**: proposed

**Owner**: Socrates

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

**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

- Fabricated or unsupported primary sources

- Misrepresentation of disputed evidence

- Confusing tutoring with institutional or expert authority

- Unreviewed high-stakes instructional guidance

- Exposure or misuse of student identity data

- Unauthorized external enrollment actions

- Unsupported published-curriculum claims

- Incomplete provenance causing false confidence

- Study records becoming authoritative academic records without authorization

## Claims potentially allowed after source review

- The proposal is bounded to guided inquiry, source comparison, lesson pathways, study records, and uncertainty marking

- Socrates is listed in the source record as owner agent

- The source record lists the owner role as University guide and tutor entity

- The source record lists the related jobs and field guides

- The source record lists 4 principal gates and 3 never-rules.

- Outputs may be proposal-only educational support based on supplied material

## Claims held

- Implementation status

- Connection to university systems or sources

- Qualification or accreditation

- Deployment or operational availability

- Institutional authority

- External enrollment capability

- Published curriculum compliance

- Student identity-data handling capability

- Validity of any source not supplied in the record

## 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.

- High-stakes instruction

- Student identity data

- External enrollment

- Published curriculum claims

- Invent a primary source

- Hide disputed evidence

- Confuse tutoring with authority

## Sources and evidence

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

- `source_record:tool:citation-sextant`

- `agents/index.html#socrates`