Find an answer in source material

Jev points to the passage that answers a question, checks whether any source answers it and flags sources that disagree.

  • Agent check over code-numbered passages
  • Tool sysone_find
  • Recorded examples here. Live runs through your account or engine.

Recorded example: One source answers. The interactive version loads with JavaScript.

Evidence and options

How long does a password reset link stay valid?

H Help center: Reset your password, 2026-09-02. H1: Open Settings and choose Reset password. H2: We email you a link to set a new password. H3: The link expires 30 minutes after we send it.

A API reference: POST /v2/password-resets, 2026-08-14. A1: Creates a reset request and emails the account owner. A2: Returns 202 Accepted, even when the email address is not registered. A3: Each reset token works once.

F Community forum reply, 2026-09-10. F1: Check your spam folder if the email does not arrive. F2: Support answered my question within a day.

Recorded Jev answer, September 24, 2026

  • Choice source: H3, >99%
  • Yes/no answer_exists: P(yes) 98%
  • Yes/no conflict: P(yes) 6%

Jev points to H3 in "Help center: Reset your password".

Read H3 in its source, then answer

Open the source, confirm the passage says what you will claim and quote it exactly. The ID is a lead, not a verified citation.

Measured when recorded: 295 ms in the engine, 1 model call, 1013 input tokens. A recorded answer, not a live run.

Exact typed request for this example
{
  "state": {
    "question": "How long does a password reset link stay valid?",
    "sources": [
      {
        "key": "s1",
        "id": "H1",
        "text": "Help center: Reset your password, 2026-09-02: Open Settings and choose Reset password."
      },
      {
        "key": "s2",
        "id": "H2",
        "text": "Help center: Reset your password, 2026-09-02: We email you a link to set a new password."
      },
      {
        "key": "s3",
        "id": "H3",
        "text": "Help center: Reset your password, 2026-09-02: The link expires 30 minutes after we send it."
      },
      {
        "key": "s4",
        "id": "A1",
        "text": "API reference: POST /v2/password-resets, 2026-08-14: Creates a reset request and emails the account owner."
      },
      {
        "key": "s5",
        "id": "A2",
        "text": "API reference: POST /v2/password-resets, 2026-08-14: Returns 202 Accepted, even when the email address is not registered."
      },
      {
        "key": "s6",
        "id": "A3",
        "text": "API reference: POST /v2/password-resets, 2026-08-14: Each reset token works once."
      },
      {
        "key": "s7",
        "id": "F1",
        "text": "Community forum reply, 2026-09-10: Check your spam folder if the email does not arrive."
      },
      {
        "key": "s8",
        "id": "F2",
        "text": "Community forum reply, 2026-09-10: Support answered my question within a day."
      }
    ]
  },
  "questions": {
    "source": {
      "type": "choice",
      "instructions": "Which source most directly answers the question? Use only the source text. Choose none if no source answers it.",
      "criteria": {
        "s1": "Source s1 (H1)",
        "s2": "Source s2 (H2)",
        "s3": "Source s3 (H3)",
        "s4": "Source s4 (A1)",
        "s5": "Source s5 (A2)",
        "s6": "Source s6 (A3)",
        "s7": "Source s7 (F1)",
        "s8": "Source s8 (F2)",
        "none": "No supplied source answers the question"
      }
    },
    "answer_exists": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "instructions": "Does any source state or directly imply an answer to the question? An explicit negative answer counts.",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "A source states or directly implies the answer, including an explicit negative answer",
        "false": "The sources do not establish an answer"
      }
    },
    "conflict": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "instructions": "Do two or more sources make incompatible claims about the answer to the question? A plan and a later observation are not a conflict by themselves.",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "Sources assert incompatible facts about the same thing",
        "false": "No incompatible claims about the answer"
      }
    }
  }
}

A Choice over the passages with a none option, plus two yes/no questions: does any passage answer, and do passages conflict.

How this experiment works

  1. Code Split sources into passages and assign stable IDs.
  2. Code Map the returned option key back to its passage ID, exact text and source.
  3. Code Show source dates so the caller can judge which one is current.
  4. Jev A Choice over the passages with a none option, plus two yes/no questions: does any passage answer, and do passages conflict.
  5. You Retrieve the sources; Jev does not search.
  6. You Read the passage in its source before quoting it.
  7. You When sources disagree, compare them and state the disagreement.

Limits

  • Jev only reads the passages supplied here. It does not search or retrieve.
  • A passage ID is a lead to inspect, not a verified citation.
  • The conflict question says whether sources disagree, not which one is right.
  • Recorded examples are real Jev answers replayed only for an identical request. An edit that changes the request needs a live run.