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Keeping a research pipeline honest: grounding, parity, absence discipline and the failures they were built after.

The llms.txt question, answered with the evidence

We publish an llms.txt file and we will tell you plainly that the evidence says it does almost nothing today. Here is the data, and here is why we ship it anyway.

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Why we let a human overrule the adversarial checker

We measured what would happen if our skeptical second pass ran automatically. It would have demoted the strongest competitor most and handed our client back first place. A checker tuned to argue, applied mechanically, recreates the bias it was built to remove.

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We audited our own gate and it caught 2 of 7 fabrication classes

Quote verification is necessary and nowhere near sufficient. Here are the five fabrication classes it cannot see, why every one of them passes a byte-for-byte check, and what we built as a result.

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Negative controls for AI research

A verification step nobody tests is a verification step you are trusting on faith. Plant a deliberately false claim on every run, and fail loudly if it ever gets accepted.

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An AI analyst that cannot contradict the dashboard

Give a language model its own database access and it will eventually quote a number that disagrees with the chart above it. The fix is architectural: make it read through the same code that renders the tile.

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The grounding gate: how to stop an AI research pipeline inventing quotes

The dangerous failure is not invention from nothing. It is a quote that is ninety percent right and ten percent improved. Byte-for-byte verification against a cached source, with rejection rather than flagging.

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