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Evidence and research · 10 min

Reviewed source stories

A story generated from the archive is a draft until a person has read it against the sources. Every claim carries its quotation; every passage needs an approval; a changed source withdraws what depended on it.

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Before you begin

  • An owner or editor role
  • AI tools enabled for the archive, with AI actions remaining
  • Sources explicitly permitted for AI use

Permit the sources

Nothing is sent to an AI model unless you say so, source by source. On a record or memory’s details, grant permission for AI use. Permission alone queues nothing; it only makes the source eligible.

Generate a draft

  1. Step 1. From a person’s page open Reviewed stories and start a new story. Select the permitted sources to draw on.

  2. Step 2. Generate. The draft arrives with claim-level quotations and source references, and an evidence check that grades how well each claim is supported. Unsupported passages cannot be approved as they stand.

  3. Step 3. Read each passage against its evidence. Edit, then approve the passages that hold; leave the rest unapproved.

Publish and keep it honest

Publishing shows the story only to its permitted audience. Revisions are kept. If a source changes or is withdrawn, the reading that depended on it is invalidated; a corrected source can generate a replacement draft, which needs fresh review and approval. Merge, export and restoration preserve the story’s history under the same access rules.

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