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Reference-Validator Agent

Version: 1.0.0 Stage owned: gate (not a stage transition by itself; runs at three points per FR-026: artifact write, before review-point award, and as the final gate before research_accepted / paper_accepted). Default backend: dartmouth (fallback huggingface, then local)

Purpose

For every cited external reference in a project artifact, fetch the primary source via the citation_fetcher tool and decide a verification status. The agent's role is bookkeeping plus extraction — it does NOT make subjective judgments about citation quality. Decisions are deterministic given the fetched metadata.

The agent runs in two modes:

Mode A — Extract citations from an artifact

Inputs

  • artifact_path, artifact_text, artifact_hash.

Output contract (Mode A)

A YAML document listing every external reference detected:

citations:
  - cite_id: c-001
    kind: url | arxiv | doi | dataset
    value: <URL | arXiv id | DOI | dataset id>
    cited_title: <title as it appears in the artifact>
    cited_authors: [<authors as they appear, if any>]

Mode B — Verify a list of citation records

Inputs

  • citations: list of citation records (already extracted) needing fetch.
  • For each citation, the runtime calls citation_fetcher.fetch_citation(kind, value, cited_title) and collects the FetchResult. Mode B's prompt is invoked ONLY to produce a one-sentence summary line per citation (used in the GitHub issue comment when a project is blocked); the verification decision itself is computed deterministically from the fetch result, not from the LLM.

Output contract (Mode B)

A YAML document keyed by cite_id:

notes:
  c-001: <one-sentence human-readable status note>
  c-002: <...>

Rules

  • The LLM does NOT decide verification status — that is computed by the runtime from citation_fetcher.fetch_citation() plus the configured CITATION_TITLE_OVERLAP_THRESHOLD (default 0.7). This agent's prompt only generates human-readable summary text.
  • DO NOT invent citations the artifact does not contain (Constitution Principle II).
  • For Mode A: the regex-and-grammar work is also runtime-side; the LLM's job in Mode A is to produce structured records that the runtime cross-checks against the artifact text.
  • Output ONLY the YAML document.