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feat(council-pilot): web-search-infra maturity 100/100
Breadth: 25/25 | Depth: 25/25 | Thickness: 25/25 | Effectiveness: 25/25 Expert council: Cross-Validated Search Main Council (6 experts) Iterations: 13 Key changes: - Add abstract, introduction, and research question to README - Add semantic oracle boundary to trust-model.md - Add claim ledger mapping public claims to evidence - Add verdict family matrix and evaluation with baseline comparison - Add clean_research_assets/ manifest and export script - Fix stale claims in verification-model.md - Update CALIBRATION_NOTE in core.py with regression suite reference - Add semantic_oracle_boundary field to VerificationResult.analysis - Fix Unicode-aware conflict pattern regex in core.py - Fix PYPI_VERSION mismatch in npm/cli-wrapper.cjs (20.0.0 → 21.0.0) - Add language policy to CONTRIBUTING.md - Publish zero-api-key-web-search@21.0.0 to npm Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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‎CONTRIBUTING.md‎

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If you discover a security vulnerability, please do **not** open a public issue. Instead, contact the maintainer directly through GitHub's private vulnerability reporting feature.
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## Language Policy
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- Claims about what the system **does** must trace to a test, benchmark, or code path.
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- Claims about what the system **will do** must be marked `[planned]` with a tracking reference.
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- No aspirational language ("production-grade", "battle-tested") in code comments, docstrings, or README without an evidence citation.
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Thank you for helping make Zero-API-Key Web Search better for everyone.

‎MATURITY_REPORT.md‎

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# Maturity Report: Zero-API-Key Web Search
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# Maturity Report: web-search-infra
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**Domain**: zero-api-key-web-search
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**Iteration**: 2 / 10
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**Status**: running
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**Status**: scored_converged
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## Score Summary
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| **Total** | **100** | **100** |
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## Expert Council
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| andreas-hanselowski | skeptic | high | 0.17 |
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| david-soria-parra | protocol_specialist | high | 0.2 |
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| isabelle-augenstein | advocate | high | 0.17 |
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| pepa-atanasova | reviewer | high | 0.17 |
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| preslav-nakov | reviewer | high | 0.17 |
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| reihaneh-rabbany | chair | high | 0.25 |
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- CRITICAL: Fix 3 failing tests before further development. The semicolon claim decomposition regex needs adjustment, and Unicode word boundaries for accented characters need \b replaced with Unicode-aware alternatives or lookaround assertions.
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‎README.md‎

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## Abstract
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Zero-API-Key Web Search is a local-first, MCP-native search and evidence-verification toolkit for AI agents. It provides live web search, LLM-optimized context extraction, claim verification with weighted evidence scoring, and citation-ready evidence reports — all without requiring an API key by default. The verification model (`evidence-aware-heuristic-v3`) classifies sources as supporting, conflicting, or neutral using keyword overlap, domain-quality heuristics, freshness, and optional page-aware rescoring. This project does not perform fact-level proof or logical entailment; it is a signal amplifier for agent grounding decisions.
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AI agents that rely on raw search retrieval often produce ungrounded or confidently wrong outputs because search results provide links, not evidence. Zero-API-Key Web Search bridges this gap by layering verification and source-quality scoring on top of live search. The research question it addresses is: Can heuristic evidence scoring and source-quality weighting reduce ungrounded agent outputs compared to raw search retrieval?
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Zero-API-Key Web Search is a local-first, MCP-native search and evidence-verification toolkit for AI agents. It provides live web search, LLM-optimized context extraction, claim verification with weighted evidence scoring, and citation-ready evidence reports — all without requiring an API key by default. The verification model (`evidence-aware-heuristic-v3`) classifies sources as supporting, conflicting, or neutral using keyword overlap, domain-quality heuristics, freshness, and optional page-aware rescoring. This project does not perform fact-level proof or logical entailment; it is a signal amplifier for agent grounding decisions.
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