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Grounding claims in source
Definition
Mechanism
The agent is forbidden from stating a fact unless it can simultaneously generate a pointer (quote or ID) to the specific chunk of context that supports it. No hallucination allowed; only citation. It forces a verification step where every assertion must be supported by a RetrievalAugment lookup returning the source ID.
Preconditions
- Generated claim
- Source material available
Postconditions
- Claim decorated with citation
Invariants
- Every assertion links to a source ID.
- The source exists in context history.
- The cited passage supports the assertion attached to it.
Risks
Failure modes
Inability to answer implicit or common-sense questions, which have no citable source.
Citation laundering
the cited source exists but does not support the claim attached to it.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Ground responses in retrieved external knowledge
Used by
References
Society
Auditing the historical lineage and incentives of an idea
Incentive-aware evidence weighting
Reference