intermediateCommunityQuiz

Flagging Unverified Claims Before Reporting

An agent can state a fluent, plausible claim that it never actually checked. The fix is not to forbid confident language but to separate what came back from a tool or a named source from what the model inferred, and to label the difference in the report. This skill covers asking for a source before treating a claim as fact, marking uncited statements as unverified, and abstaining when a claim cannot be supported at all.

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$ hermes verify
$ hermes insights
$ hermes logs

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Name the source or mark the sentence unverified

Flagging Unverified Claims Before Reporting

# Flagging Unverified Claims An agent can produce a fluent, plausible claim it never checked. The problem is not confident language; it is mixing what came back from a tool or a named source with what the model inferred, and presenting both as the same kind of thing. ## Separate the two kinds of s

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