Citation Verification

Answer Citation Audit Handoff

Answer-citation audit routes support checks to review. Honesty note: simplified citation-verification classroom toy model; not legal advice; toy model; structure only; human review required; no live neochart dependency.

Structured Visual

Jurisdiction: US; as of 2026-06-24; not legal advice; Code encodes toy citation verification structure, not legal research advice, authority-weight advice, or live source validation. RENDER STRUCTURE · REFUSE INTERPRETATION · CITE · ABSTAIN · HAND-OFF.

RENDER STRUCTURE · REFUSE INTERPRETATION · CITE · ABSTAIN · HAND-OFF: render structure, refuse interpretation, cite provenance, abstain when unsupported, and hand off to human review.

Answer citation audit handoffAnswer citation audit handoffscope: US classroom citation verification toy model | Answer citation audit handoff | as of2026-06-24Toy citation verification workflow; not legal advice; no live neochart dependency.answer textcitation candidatessource lookup rowsquote alignment labelsabstain if unsupportedhuman answer auditedge=answer->candidate label=extractedge=candidate->lookup label=lookupedge=lookup->quote label=alignedge=quote->abstain label=gateedge=abstain->review label=handoffSCC: scc5:answer; scc4:candidate; scc3:lookup; scc2:quote; scc1:abstain; scc0:review
highlighted = computed this step

Citation-verification toy-model honesty note

Honesty note: simplified classroom citation-verification model; sources, citations, authority status, quotations, and retrieval systems vary; as of June 24, 2026; not legal advice; toy model; structure only; human review required; no live neochart dependency.

toy citation-verification model as of June24,2026\text{toy citation-verification model as of }June 24, 2026

Answer audit has a spine

The audit map connects answer text, citation candidates, lookup rows, quote labels, abstention, and human review.

answer audit spine\text{answer audit spine}

Example audit map

The flow has 6 nodes and 5 edge(s).

nodes=6\text{nodes}=6

Decision nodes gate answers

The model has 2 decision node(s) before the human audit handoff.

decisions=2\text{decisions}=2

Diagram note

The diagram organizes audit artifacts. It does not certify an answer or citation.

audit handoff only\text{audit handoff only}

Jurisdiction: US; as of 2026-06-24; not legal advice; Code encodes toy citation verification structure, not legal research advice, authority-weight advice, or live source validation. RENDER STRUCTURE · REFUSE INTERPRETATION · CITE · ABSTAIN · HAND-OFF.

RENDER STRUCTURE · REFUSE INTERPRETATION · CITE · ABSTAIN · HAND-OFF: render structure, refuse interpretation, cite provenance, abstain when unsupported, and hand off to human review.

Answer citation audit handoffAnswer citation audit handoffscope: US classroom citation verification toy model | Answer citation audit handoff | as of2026-06-24Toy citation verification workflow; not legal advice; no live neochart dependency.answer textcitation candidatessource lookup rowsquote alignment labelsabstain if unsupportedhuman answer auditedge=answer->candidate label=extractedge=candidate->lookup label=lookupedge=lookup->quote label=alignedge=quote->abstain label=gateedge=abstain->review label=handoffSCC: scc5:answer; scc4:candidate; scc3:lookup; scc2:quote; scc1:abstain; scc0:review

Summary

Answer-citation audit should make unsupported citation use visible before review.

visible before review\text{visible before review}