verify-public-claimslisted

# Verify Public Claims Turn public-facing statements into a traceable claim ledger, then revise the copy so every material assertion matches the available evidence. ## 1. Establish the review contract - Confirm the copy, intended audience, publication surface, relevant date, and evidence supplied by the user. - Identify whether the request covers factual accuracy, freshness, wording strength, source quality, or all four. - Browse current public sources when a claim may have changed or the user asks for current verification. - Use only public sources or evidence the user has approved for this review. - Do not treat inaccessible, login-only, or missing material as verified. ## 2. Build the claim ledger - Use [assets/claim-ledger-template.md](assets/claim-ledger-template.md). - Split compound sentences when their parts need different evidence. - Record the exact claim, source, publication date, event date when different, verification date, evidence excerpt or paraphrase, and intended rewrite. - Read [references/evidence-statuses.md](references/evidence-statuses.md) before assigning a status. - Focus on claims that affect trust, decisions, eligibility, scope, performance, recency, identity, or attribution. ## 3. Classify each claim Use exactly one primary status: - `supported`: direct, relevant, sufficiently current evidence supports the wording - `qualified`: the core is supported, but the wording needs a limit, date, scope, or attribution - `inference`: the conclusion i