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name: source-quote-law
description: Apply the Source Quote Law: The Code That Refuses a Source Card Without the Source's Own Words article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
---

# Source Quote Law: The Code That Refuses a Source Card Without the Source's Own Words

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/source-quote-law). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/source-quote-law.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/source-quote-law/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

Source Quote Law: The Code That Refuses a Source Card Without the Source's Own Words Every source card on miscsubjects.com is supposed to show the source's verbatim words — the sentence from the study, the text of the tweet, the line from t

## Representations

- Human: /a/source-quote-law
- JSON: /api/articles/source-quote-law
- Relationships: /api/articles/source-quote-law/topology
- History: /api/articles/source-quote-law/revisions