Gadoes makes citations prove themselves

The dispumike fork adds a one-click way to re-check whether a cited source actually says what the AI claimed it said.

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Every citation the assistant produces now gets a stable identity and a verification state - pending, verified, unverified, or unavailable - shown as a small badge on the citation card. When a user hits "Verify & read," the backend goes back to the original source, re-runs the same lookup that produced the citation, and compares. The answer comes back as a status the reader can actually trust at a glance.

This is the move that separates grounded legal AI from a chatbot that footnotes confidently and hopes nobody checks. It's also the piece most teams skip, because it's quieter to build than a new chat feature and harder to demo. Gadoes shipped it anyway. One honest caveat from the fork's own notes: every verification call hits the underlying source again, so cost and rate limits matter - caching is effectively required alongside it.

So what If you're evaluating any legal AI tool, this is the capability to ask vendors about - and a useful reference point for what "trustworthy citations" looks like in practice.

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5 commits from Gadoes/dispumike, oldest first. Source extracted verbatim from the harvested git log.

SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`0ba14c89`	feat(chunk20): migration 006, citation DB saving with IDs, verification_status type	Gadoes	2026-05-02	↗ GitHub
`1e0939c2`	feat(chunk20): CitationVerifier service with unit tests	Gadoes	2026-05-02	↗ GitHub
`85e53476`	feat(chunk20): POST /citations/:id/verify route with tests	Gadoes	2026-05-02	↗ GitHub
`0681ec54`	Chunk 20 Task 8: CitationCard verification badge	Gadoes	2026-05-02	↗ GitHub
commit body - VerificationBadge component shows pending/verified/unverified/unavailable - handleVerify calls POST /api/citations/:id/verify and updates badge state - Button hidden when citation has no id - makeCitation helper defaults to id="cite-default" for pre-Chunk-20 tests Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`20b226cd`	Merge Chunks 19-20: Telemetry Dashboard + Citation Verification	Gadoes	2026-05-02	↗ GitHub
commit body Chunk 19 - MCP Telemetry: - migration 005_mcp_events.sql - Telemetry logging in McpClientManager.callTool (latency, cache_hit, success, error_type) - GET /admin/mcp-telemetry route with per-source aggregation - Frontend /admin/mcp-telemetry dashboard with auto-refresh Chunk 20 - Citation Verification: - migration 006_citations_verification.sql (verification_status column) - Citation DB saving with IDs before SSE emit; chat_message_id linking - CitationVerifier service (fetch + HTML text normalize, 10s timeout) - POST /citations/:id/verify route - CitationCard VerificationBadge component with live API updates Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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