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It organizes controlled records into phase-aware site arguments and routes users back to the source lanes." }, { "title": "Independence is audited, not assumed", "text": "Every synthesis carries a record-level dependency audit. Shared publications are collapsed into publication dependency groups; shared artifact/corpus identifiers and exact repeated contexts are flagged for object, excavation, or sample review; derived synthesis links are excluded from corroboration counts. 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