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Sourcing-discipline policy: claim-modality requirement + public-domain preset + citation-resolution tripwire #3

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Context

Spun out of Stackbilt-dev/stackbilt-web#177 (route tarotscript's Old Farmer's Almanac codex through the Evidence Engine for attestation). That issue's "Path A" (curated public-domain library seed + existing pipeline) needs nothing here. This issue is Path B — the real authority/sourcing-discipline work, which lives in evidence-core because policy and requirements are owned here, not in stackbilt-web.

Problem

The Evidence Engine currently cannot enforce three things the almanac use case (and any tradition/folklore/historical-sourcing content) needs. All three are absent because:

  • a domain is just a routing/label tag in stackbilt-web — it carries no policy;
  • the policy lever is EvidencePolicyVersionEvidenceRequirements, a global set of 13 requirement types, none of which express sourcing provenance or claim modality;
  • the EEAT score is a completeness metric — it counts whether required pillars are present, so a fabricated citation scores identically to a real one (citations are counted structurally, never verified).

Net effect: a "blessed when EEAT ≥ threshold AND receipt non-tampered" gate would launder fabricated citations rather than catch them.

Asks

  1. New requirement type — claim modality. Distinguish "the tradition holds X" (a sourceable historical claim) from "X is physically true" (a scientific claim the tradition does not license). Needs a new EvidenceRequirement value + validator logic, not just a label.
  2. New policy preset for sourcing discipline. A preset (e.g. historical_public_domain) that requires public-domain / primary-source provenance and rejects modern copyrighted source text as a primary citation.
  3. Citation-resolution tripwire. A validation pass that fails any in-content citation that does not resolve to a real evidence-library / research-cache asset. This is the actual anti-fabrication gate; today nothing resolves a citation string back to a stored asset.

Non-goals / boundaries

  • No stackbilt-web changes required for Path A; once (1)–(3) land here, stackbilt-web wires the new preset/requirement through /attest and surfaces the tripwire outcome.
  • Threshold tuning + the approved → blessed promotion gate stay tarotscript-side (tarotscript#167).

References

  • Stackbilt-dev/stackbilt-web#177 triage comment (full architectural analysis)
  • AEGIS wiki: almanac-codex-evidence-engine-attestation, evidence-engine-compose-and-trust-surface
  • Honesty framing: receipts prove non-mutation, not truth — enforce authenticity upstream (here), not at the trust page.

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