A generative‑search answer may cite a supporting passage but omit a source relationship that alters its interpretation. We propose a claim‑gated audit of the query‑source‑answer tuple. An omission is considered resolved only when relationship evidence, answer adoption, materiality, and disclosure are all observed; otherwise incomplete evidence remains unresolved rather than being treated as independent.
The specification separates this audit endpoint from citation support and review priority, and binds decisions to versioned evidence spans. A reference checker makes the record contract executable.
On an exhaustive synthetic suite, the system reproduces all 81 three‑state predicate combinations and rejects 192 deliberately malformed records. Common‑guard baselines and predicate ablations isolate endpoint logic from missing‑evidence handling, while controlled state transitions verify support separation and evidence removal. These are finite contract‑conformance results, not detector accuracy or user‑outcome evidence.
We also define the independent annotation, held‑out evaluation, and paired utility tests still required to establish semantic validity and demonstrate deployment benefit.
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