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# Scour — Open the Window, Check Reality, Come Back A long conversation builds a closed room. The agent produces a confident, internally consistent narrative — "SQuAD uses exact-match, LLM-judge gets ~97% human agreement, this layered fix is the standard hardening" — and it *sounds* completely right. That is the danger: it was generated from memory, inside the room, and nobody opened the window to check it against the actual world. Scour is the hotline button: leave the room, verify we are on the right page, return with the truth. It is the evidence twin of `isomorph`. Both answer *"are we shaped right?"* — isomorph from a proven domain's structure (reasoning, the kingfisher), scour from real-world evidence (how people actually, currently do this). And it shares the family spine: devour grounds you in the codebase, bedrock grounds the code in reality by running it, scour grounds the *understanding* in reality by fetching it. ## The Constitutional Rule **No claim survives without a real fetched source.** Scour exists *because* the user does not trust confident-from-memory answers. So if scour itself answered from memory, it would be the very disease it is the cure for, wearing a badge. Every verdict traces to something pulled off the web *in this run* — a doc, a repo, a thread, a paper, a changelog. If the web cannot be reached or the sources are thin, scour says so plainly and leaves the claim **unverified** — it never dresses up training-data recall as fresh research. #