CAPAS packages claim admissibility, deterministic gating, human confirmation, batch reporting, and provenance blockers into a pilot that a technical team can measure and a steering committee can understand.
A retrospective over 28 famous claims — all published in Nature, Science, or The Lancet. 14 were later retracted (Wakefield, Surgisphere, Schön, STAP, Stapel…); 14 were independently replicated (LIGO, Higgs, RECOVERY dexamethasone, the Pfizer vaccine trial…). Peer review and plausibility passed all 28 alike. CAPAS gated by structure.
Select corpus, owner, reviewer, and baseline review process.
Bring paper text, metadata exports, theorem notes, or structured records.
Human reviewer approves candidate spans before CAPAS decides.
Run single and batch CAPAS decisions with explicit evidence contracts.
Deliver decision mix, exception queue, provenance blockers, and ROI model.
CSV/JSON with verdict, reason, schema version, record ID, evidence fields, and provenance blockers.
HOLD/REWRITE/REJECT records routed for expert adjudication and wording repair.
Open review hashes, source URL hashes, witness IDs, reviewer attestations, and RO-Crate blockers.
ACCEPT, REWRITE, REJECT, HOLD, fine-tune-ready, and provenance-blocked counts by corpus slice.
Examples where source evidence supported a weaker claim than the candidate record asserted.
What can be reused, what needs rewrite, what cannot be reused, and what operational control is required next.
The engine does not infer hidden evidence, perform broad paper understanding, or certify scientific truth.
Candidate extraction is an aid. A reviewer must confirm claim wording and evidence spans before the gate is treated as operational output.
Active checks for hashes, attestations, witness registries, and provenance packets require CLI/API verification.