# Almost · public slice

**Share this folder and these URLs.** This is what outsiders and design partners should see.

Chat invents. Almost refuses. The pack is the product.

## Open these

| URL | What you get |
|---|---|
| [`/showcase`](/showcase) | Signature moment: one BOUND, one GAP |
| [`/sample/pack.md`](/sample/pack.md) | Portable proof artifact |
| [`/api/public/showcase`](/api/public/showcase) | Frozen JSON card |
| [`showcase.json`](./showcase.json) | Offline fallback card |
| [`/api/public/capabilities`](/api/public/capabilities) | Coarse flags only (OpenAI / Gemini / Vertex on or off) |
| [`/pricing`](/pricing) | List prices |
| [`/`](/) | Marketing |

## Mechanism (one picture)

```
Ask → Gate → BOUND | GAP → Pack.md
                 ↑
           span offsets + hash
```

## Category (why this is first of its kind)

| Approach | Job |
|---|---|
| RAG / grounded generation | Retrieve, then generate with citations |
| Fact-checkers | Grade prose after it exists |
| QuoteVerify / CiteGuard-class tools | Verify research-report citations after generation |
| **Almost** | **Outbound desk before send:** fail-closed substring bind, lexical support, named gaps, portable pack, span offsets + hashes, optional human Counsel |

Citation URLs rot. Almost pins character offsets and hashes the quote+excerpt span at bind time.

## What this proves

1. Fail-closed quote bind before a high-stakes line ships.
2. Gaps are named, never hidden inside the answer.
3. The pack is a portable `.md`, not a chat transcript.
4. Models may draft from bound claims only. The gate still decides.
5. "What we almost sent" can travel with the pack as proof of the near-miss.
6. Lexical support catches invent-beyond-quote claims without claiming full NLI.

## What stays private

Do **not** publish or deep-link:

- `evidence.py` (bind engine)
- `ai.py` prompts and schemas
- Counsel ops / reviewer notes
- `data/`, sessions, CSRF, service-account JSON, `.env`
- Live activity feeds and credit ledger internals

See root [`PUBLIC.md`](../PUBLIC.md).

## Honest claims

A BOUND quote means the quote appears in the excerpt you supplied and most claim content words appear there too. That is not full entailment and not a trust badge. Counsel is a human review slot.