{
  "handle": "CiteBack",
  "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 {{retrieval_augment}} lookup returning the source ID.",
  "gloss": "Grounding claims in source",
  "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."
  ],
  "invariants": [
    "Every assertion links to a source ID.",
    "The source exists in context history.",
    "The cited passage supports the assertion attached to it."
  ],
  "preconditions": [
    "Generated claim",
    "Source material available"
  ],
  "postconditions": [
    "Claim decorated with citation"
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "tier": 1,
    "ring": 1,
    "supersedes": [
      "sema:CiteBack#mh:SHA-256:d09cb134d37aa235b88fbbcfa7667e3689b342d6a846bb58fad79fe2bef8e0e3",
      "sema:CiteBack#mh:SHA-256:77855c554890913b6c7c61f5a947a502b47171f04f333ab4bcfc72e136bfd30b",
      "sema:CiteBack#mh:SHA-256:1efb70d67a59234fe9d375bc29308c73b945a743554a0af9a334f86827af6f74",
      "sema:CiteBack#mh:SHA-256:8be76800c2df7055947d33ae0cb8fed8fd8b8ea52c50d03c5da2bdbe816efcad"
    ],
    "path": [
      "Mind",
      "Reasoning"
    ]
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:CiteBack#mh:SHA-256:b84030c6635efa4b951843dd03918883cf1379fddb4cce9e3d098c19dfd6a604",
  "sema_ref": "CiteBack#b840",
  "sema_stub": "b840",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "retrieval_augment": "sema:RetrievalAugment#mh:SHA-256:6f840cc4134b302b712d8f59dcca0c1b446c255369a8cea11031e884c16f3052"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Mind",
  "sema_category": "Reasoning",
  "used_by": {
    "references": {
      "GenealogicalTrace": "sema:GenealogicalTrace#mh:SHA-256:8c7f219eedc7c40e86dc84e0efb9e5890d373ab73fc09731ee21a2fb4183bfe7",
      "SourceEvaluate": "sema:SourceEvaluate#mh:SHA-256:24f610415c3d55de5161b2816f2c9f24275388972b0a68f897cedf8c4b67dc58"
    }
  }
}