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Chain of custody, by hand

Type each retelling of a claim from origin to circulation and grade its reliability. Truth Trace flags where distortion enters and gives you an on-air read — live. Your draft stays on this device only.

The claimOrigin is established

Provenance-first

If you can't point to a real source for the very first stage, uncheck this. Truth Trace will say the origin isn't established rather than pretend a source exists.

On-air read
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On-air read
A live call on the last stage: Accurate (cleared), Bent (add missing context), or Fabricated (don't present as fact).

accurate

ACCURATE — cleared for air

The circulating version is faithful to the origin.

Lineage · origin → circulation
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Reliability grade
Grade each stage High, Medium, or Low. The first stage that grades lower than the one before it is flagged as where distortion entered.

0Origin
Stage 0 reliability

Provenance hash-chain
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Tamper-evident
Each stage is fingerprinted and folds in the previous fingerprint, so editing any earlier stage changes every later hash. Same math as the curated traces.

chain-of-custody.log

$ trace --verify draft
computing…
status: 0 links chained · tamper-evident

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On-air read?On-air readA live call on the last stage: Accurate (cleared), Bent (add missing context), or Fabricated (don't present as fact).

Lineage · origin → circulation?Reliability gradeGrade each stage High, Medium, or Low. The first stage that grades lower than the one before it is flagged as where distortion entered.

Provenance hash-chain?Tamper-evidentEach stage is fingerprinted and folds in the previous fingerprint, so editing any earlier stage changes every later hash. Same math as the curated traces.

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On-air read
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On-air read
A live call on the last stage: Accurate (cleared), Bent (add missing context), or Fabricated (don't present as fact).

Lineage · origin → circulation
?
Reliability grade
Grade each stage High, Medium, or Low. The first stage that grades lower than the one before it is flagged as where distortion entered.

Provenance hash-chain
?
Tamper-evident
Each stage is fingerprinted and folds in the previous fingerprint, so editing any earlier stage changes every later hash. Same math as the curated traces.