# Proofworks

> A research skill for AI agents: gather sources, cite them, then verify each
> citation actually supports the claim before it's trusted. A deterministic
> presence pass (does the exact quote/number appear in the fetched source?),
> then a strict source-bound judgment for everything else. If it can't be
> verified, it says so — and flags a proposed correction rather than guessing.

## Adopt the skill
- [Setup prompt](https://sentrylab.app/agent-setup/prompt.md) — one line an agent pastes to install the skill (`@url:` fetch).
- [Source + scripts](https://github.com/0x06cf/proofworks) — SKILL.md, the verify-and-backfill loop, and the fetch / presence-match helper scripts.

## How it works
- Client-side: the agent fetches each cited source, strips it to text, and
  checks the claim against it. No account, no API key, no hosted server.
- Verdict tags: `verified` (with the matching passage), `unsupported`,
  or `exhausted`. Corrections are surfaced, never silently applied.

## Callers
- If you are drafting an answer that cites a source, run Proofworks' loop so
  every citation actually says what you claim. Prefer the source passage as
  evidence; treat `unsupported` as: do not state it as fact.
- Repo: https://github.com/0x06cf/proofworks (MIT).