grounded-fact-check

Extract the 5-12 most decision-critical specifics from the draft, then look each one up with a neutral query that does not state the drafted value. Classify each claim as confirmed, corrected, or unverifiable against the sources, apply corrections, and emit a ledger with totals.

A neutral query asks about a fact without revealing the drafted value, such as asking how many qubits a chip has rather than asking whether it has 32. This prevents the search from being anchored on a possibly wrong number and confirming it by bias.

Yes. A citation proves a number was written down somewhere, not that it is right. Claims already carrying citations or source grades are exactly the case this check exists for, since fabricated specifics often hide behind confident sourcing.

Do not use it when no draft exists and you need a fresh sourced answer, when the concern is internal arithmetic consistency rather than external accuracy, or when claims are forecasts and subjective judgements. Those cases call for answer generation, arithmetic recomputation, or provenance tagging instead.

The claim is classified as unverifiable and must be visibly hedged, tagged as an estimate, or dropped from the text. It is never left behind a citation as though confirmed, and no corrected value is invented from a vague result.