# ATTRIBUTION / NOTICE

This skill (`litresearch`, part of the LitHermes Hermes plugin) is authored for the
LitHermes project. One design idea is adapted from a third-party project, credited
below. No third-party source is vendored here — only the verification idea is
adapted into this skill's prompt contract.

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## 1. insane-research (fivetaku) — inspiration for the claim-graph verification gate

The non-code claim-graph verification gate (Phase 3b: a data-flow lock where the
synthesis may assert a high-risk non-code claim only after it clears `>= 2
independent source domains + 1 counter-search + a primary source`, otherwise it is
abstained to an unresolved/refuted annex) is inspired by the data-flow-lock
verification design in **insane-research** by fivetaku.

- Source: https://github.com/fivetaku/insane-research
- License: MIT (declared in the project's `README.md`).
- **What is adapted:** the IDEA only — a verification gate whose output is the sole
  allowlist the synthesis draws from, so skipping verification leaves nothing to
  synthesize. No insane-research code is copied or redistributed. The upstream gate
  is a Python checker (`validate_ledger.py`); LitHermes translates the concept into
  a runtime-agnostic prompt and message-text contract, because a LitHermes research
  worker is a `delegate_task` child that cannot write session files and has no
  guaranteed Python.

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