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Building

Verification

How grounding, citation checks, and retries keep output trustworthy.

Verification is the part of TRACE that earns trust. It runs after the work, before the output.

Grounding

Every factual claim is matched against the sources the agent actually retrieved. No source, no claim. The grounding score appears in the trace header.

Retries and escalation

A failed check doesn’t silently degrade the answer. The run retries within its budget, and if it still can’t ground the claim, it escalates, with the failed step highlighted.