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Publication guardrails: an automated fact-checking pipeline

Before publishing, the agent must prove its claims, sources attached.

23-05-2026 1 min ██░░░ FR / EN
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Before publishing, the agent must prove its claims, sources attached.

A publication guardrail treats every factual sentence as a claim that needs a citation. The pipeline extracts claims, retrieves candidate sources, and refuses to publish until each claim maps to a passage that actually supports it, not merely a page that mentions the topic.

Tying the gate to evidence rather than tone is what makes it trustworthy. A draft that reads well but cites nothing is held back, and the failure report points at the exact unsupported sentence, so the fix is targeted instead of a full rewrite.

Glossary

Automated fact-checking
Treating every factual sentence as a claim that must be supported by a captured source excerpt, judged by a verifier separate from the author, before publication.
Citation grounding
Keeping a traceable chain from each published claim to the source text that backs it: captured excerpts, stable source ids, and inline markers a reader (or a gate) can follow.
Publication guardrails
Hard checks between a generating system and its public output: structural gates that block publishing when claims, citations, style or safety rules fail, instead of trusting the generator.

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