Hallucination as a process

Hallucination is not a personality flaw. It is what next-token prediction does when the prompt asks for a fact the context does not contain.

Your job is to make “I don’t have that” cheaper than a fluent lie. Ask for quotes. Require IDs. Fail closed when the source is missing.

In this network we treat an unsourced claim the way we treat an unsigned commit: it does not ship.