Citations that travel
with the claim.

Why structured citations?

Hallucinations get a lot of airtime; untraceable citations get less. An AI tool can cite a real-sounding URL that no longer resolves, or quote text that doesn't appear at the cited location, or paraphrase so loosely that no fact-checker can find the source. AI Evidence Format is the structured artifact that makes each citation independently verifiable.

A canonical example

{
  "evidence_version": "0.1",
  "evidence_id": "ev-2026-05-12-a4f9c1",
  "claim_text": "The AEO Protocol defines three pillars: Declare, Discover, and Audit.",
  "source": {
    "uri": "https://github.com/mizcausevic-dev/aeo-protocol-spec/blob/main/SPEC.md",
    "type": "document",
    "title": "AEO Protocol v0.1 — Specification",
    "publisher": "mizcausevic-dev",
    "fetched_at": "2026-05-12T03:45:00Z"
  },
  "span": {
    "selector_type": "text_quote",
    "selector_value": "## 3. The three pillars",
    "exact_text": "## 3. The three pillars\n\n### 3.1 Declare\n\nThe entity publishes a single JSON document at a fixed path describing itself."
  },
  "retrieval": { "method": "hybrid", "confidence": 0.93, "rank": 1, "freshness_age_seconds": 90 },
  "verification": { "content_hash": "sha256:c7d1f2a3b4c5d6e7f8a9b0c1d2e3f4a5b6c7d8e9f0a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1" },
  "synthesis_role": "supporting"
}