Sourceright

Sourceright is Rust-first reference verification infrastructure for academic writing, agent workflows, and future legal citation work.

The first product goal is to take references from documents or text, produce canonical CSL JSON, standardise and clean the records, verify and enrich them through citation APIs, route uncertain records to manual agent review, then export clean reference files for tools such as EndNote, Zotero, and BibLaTeX.

Workflow

document/text
  -> extracted references and in-text citations
  -> references.csl.json
  -> standardisation, cleaning, verification, enrichment
  -> references.verification.json and review-queue.jsonl
  -> conflict resolution, citation reconciliation, and reference integrity reports
  -> XML, ENW, RIS, BibLaTeX, and YAML exports

Roadmap

• Academic reference extraction and CSL JSON canonicalisation.
• Provider-backed verification through Crossref first, then DOI resolution, DataCite, OpenAlex, PubMed/NCBI, and ORCID where useful.
• In-text citation reconciliation against reference-list entries.
• Manual review queues designed for human and agent/subagent verification.
• Platform-neutral journal screening outputs for editorial workflows, with OJS as the first public integration target.
• Reference reports for citation integrity auditing and AI-related citation-error signals.
• CLI and MCP server interfaces over the same Rust core.
• Legal citation analysis with a separate legal citation model and public-provider slots.
• Claim/source/provenance graphs built over detected citation support without asserting claim truth.

See conductor/tracks.md for the implementation track map.

Current Status

The Rust core now includes canonical CSL handling, verification sidecars, intake segmentation, provider evidence normalization, cleaning, conflict resolution, citation reconciliation, manual review queues, reporting, exports, journal screening contracts, legal citation records, and claim/source provenance graphs. Imported reference workflow material lives under legacy/humanizer-next/ as provenance and regression material until audited, ported, or retired.

CLI

sourceright init [document-or-directory]
sourceright validate-csl [--json] <references.csl.json>
sourceright report [--json|--mcp-resource] [.sourceright-directory]
sourceright export --preview --all [.sourceright-directory]
sourceright bench [--json]
sourceright citation-sync [--preview|--apply] [.sourceright-directory]
sourceright mcp

bench runs the checked-in fixture suite without live providers. citation-sync defaults to preview mode and requires explicit --apply before writing audit logs or remote fixture snapshots.

Planned Distribution

• sourceright CLI binary.
• sourceright mcp server mode.
• GitHub Releases with platform binaries, checksums, and provenance artifacts.
• crates.io package after release dry runs pass.
• OCI MCP image metadata for the official MCP Registry.
• Thin adapter packages only where native tool ecosystems require them.

Development

cargo check
cargo test
cargo fmt --check
cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo run --bin sourceright -- bench
cargo package --locked
cargo deny check advisories bans sources

License

Licensed under either of:

• Apache License, Version 2.0
• MIT license

at your option.