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Note, 2026-11-02. Status: reviewed. Tags: iinventedlight, mcp. Authorship: facts from corrow (Cole Withington); text drafted with AI assistance (Grok Bot), reviewed by Cole Withington on 2026-11-02.

Summary

High confidence means two independent open sources agree, medium means one authoritative open source, and low means a single restricted source or indirect support.

Draft. License: CC BY 4.0 (this summary). Sources: [S1] iinventedlight, "iinventedlight note format v0.1".

Facts

• id: F1 claim: 'high' = at least two independent open sources agree on the claim. confidence: medium date: 2026-11-02 sources: [S1] license: CC BY 4.0
• id: F2 claim: 'medium' = one authoritative open source supports the claim. confidence: medium date: 2026-11-02 sources: [S1] license: CC BY 4.0
• id: F3 claim: 'low' = only a single restricted source or indirect support. confidence: medium date: 2026-11-02 sources: [S1] license: CC BY 4.0
• id: F4 claim: When sources disagree, the note records which source says what under Disagreements or in the fact's note field, and does not pick a side silently. confidence: medium date: 2026-11-02 sources: [S1] license: CC BY 4.0
• id: F5 claim: Confidence describes the sourcing of a claim, not whether it applies to a particular reader's situation. confidence: medium date: 2026-11-02 sources: [S1] license: CC BY 4.0

Pointers

• answers: Full official guidance and details beyond this summary where: https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/iinventedlight-library-rules/ access: open, no account

@misc{iil_note_7tgsf192,
  author = {Withington, Cole},
  title = {{Confidence levels in iinventedlight notes}},
  howpublished = {iinventedlight Library},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-11-02},
  url = {https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/confidence-levels/},
  note = {Permanent ID iil:note:7tgsf192. License: CC-BY-4.0.},
}

Markdown

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