Provenance at generation time
Capture a claim's provenance as you gather it — the source, the exact supporting quote, and the access date — never reconstruct it afterward.
- Attach the citation and the verbatim supporting quote at the moment the claim is made.
- Reconstructed-after-the-fact citations are where fabricated and mismatched sources creep in.
- Record what was searched and where the claim came from, not just the conclusion.
- Provenance recorded late is provenance guessed; guessed provenance is unverifiable.
- A claim whose provenance cannot be captured does not belong in the output.