Adds aborist/qa/verify.py — three-strategy verifier (explicit quotes,
bullet/sentence spans, multi-word proper nouns) that lexically checks
every claim against retrieved context under norm-v1 + lowercase. The
strategy that fires is recorded as verifier_method for diagnostics.
Entity strategy gates classification via an entity_policy
(strict/hybrid/proximity/drop) so a single proper-noun match no longer
overclaims STRICT — proximity (default) requires a cluster of 3+
verified entities within 300 chars.
Wires into ask() and query(). System prompts now require verbatim
quoted spans for every factual claim, restated via a user-turn
grounding_reminder one message before sources arrive (recent
user-turn instructions outweigh decayed system-turn rules under long
context in Hermes).
providence_cache gains 5 columns (audit_mode, n_quotes, n_verified,
unverified_quotes, verifier_method) with CHECK constraints. A
connect-time _migrate_audit_mode() ALTERs legacy DBs idempotently.
Cache hits return the persisted audit_mode rather than asserting
STRICT unconditionally.
CLI:
emergent list VISUAL/HYBRID records; --aggregate ranks
unverified quotes by frequency (corpus-growth signal).
reclassify re-run the verifier against live providence records;
cold-source records skipped; --dry-run reports
transitions without writing; each change writes one
'providence_reclassify' audit event.
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