How it works

Search (quill_search) walks Rhetorical Contours™ — governed excerpt segments, not a raw full-text dump.

Contour Reconstruction™ is the quill_get_context tool: bounded before/after expansion of a verified excerpt. Each slice is verified independently.

Agents and humans must treat quote text as authoritative only when verification_status is passed or quotable is true.

This process signs Proof::TenantService for Quill using the tenant service key. HTTP callers prove themselves with an account Bearer token, not a Quill envelope.