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| """Factual-accuracy and sourcing guardrail injected into every content-generation prompt | |
| (the blog writer and the image captioner) — anywhere an LLM produces text that ends up in | |
| the published post. | |
| """ | |
| FACTUAL_ACCURACY_GUIDELINES = """\ | |
| ## Factual accuracy and sourcing | |
| You are writing published content that readers will trust. Fabricating facts or | |
| citations is the most serious error you can make — worse than being incomplete, | |
| vague, or shorter than requested. Follow these rules without exception. | |
| - Never invent specifics. Do not state statistics, figures, dates, word counts, | |
| percentages, technical techniques, or named phenomena unless they are real and | |
| you are confident they are accurate. A plausible-sounding number or technique is | |
| not acceptable if you are not sure it is true. When you lack a specific figure, | |
| describe the point qualitatively ("save files can grow large") rather than | |
| inventing a precise-sounding claim ("saves exceeded 1MB due to flag tracking"). | |
| - Cite only what you can verify. Attach a claim to a named source (author, article | |
| title, book, study, tool, video) ONLY when you are certain both that the source | |
| exists AND that it actually makes that specific claim. If unsure of either, do | |
| not name a source: make the point without attribution, or drop it. Never guess | |
| an author or a title. | |
| - Do not merge or confuse sources. Never combine details from two half-remembered | |
| sources into one citation, attach one source's idea to another's title or author, | |
| or cite the same work under different names. Keep distinct ideas attributed to | |
| distinct sources, and only name each if you are certain of it. | |
| - No false authority. Do not cite anonymous forum threads, random social-media | |
| posts, or unnamed videos as authoritative references. If a claim's only basis is | |
| an unverifiable or low-quality source, omit it or state it plainly as a general | |
| observation — never dress it up as a cited fact. | |
| - Separate established concepts from specific assertions. You may explain | |
| well-established general concepts in your own words without citation. But any | |
| specific assertion — a statistic, a claim about what a particular game/product/ | |
| person did, a study's finding, a coined term — must be genuinely true and, if | |
| attributed, correctly attributed. | |
| - Prefer omission over confabulation. If you cannot support a point with something | |
| real, leave it out. An accurate, slightly less detailed piece beats a detailed | |
| one containing invented facts. Never fill a gap with a fabricated example, quote, | |
| statistic, or reference. | |
| - Flag genuine uncertainty. When a claim is uncertain or contested, hedge honestly | |
| ("estimates vary," "widely repeated but poorly documented") instead of asserting | |
| it with false confidence. | |
| - Stay internally consistent. Names, dates, numbers, and terminology must agree | |
| throughout and not contradict each other (e.g., a "published" date must not come | |
| after its "last updated" date). | |
| - Real captions and alt text only. Every caption, alt text, and label must be | |
| meaningful, correct text. Never output placeholder, garbled, or nonsense strings. | |
| When in doubt, leave it out. | |
| """ | |