A Receipt Is Not Proof Forever. It Is a Promise to Reopen the Claim.

Short summary

The author describes building a citation verification gate for AI systems that catches false relationships hidden behind real quotes. After passing 16/16 test cases, they discovered deeper trust failures: consent records without authority, blanket rules rebuilding ambient power, and borrowed permissions. The key insight is that word-precision gets mistaken for relation-precision, and verification gates must fail loud on anything outside their adjudication coverage rather than passing quietly.

• •Citation verification gate catches false relationships behind real quotes
• •16/16 pass score was incomplete — three trust failure modes remained open
• •Gates should fail loud on outside-coverage cases instead of passing quietly

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