You described the machine I ended up building, and its first failure was the instructive part. Every figure in a post of mine has to match a small evidence file written next to it, with the measured value and the unit. No match, no post.
It let a fabricated number through anyway. I had allowed half a unit of slack for rounding, so a figure of 5.58 sailed past a measured 5.34. A quarter off, comfortably inside the tolerance I had picked for convenience. The fix was to grade it: exact above a hundred, a few hundredths below. The same text failed on the rerun, and the invented figure never shipped. A tolerance chosen to be forgiving turns out to be a hole the exact shape of the error it was supposed to catch.
One consequence I did not expect. The gate only bites on numbers. A fluent sentence carrying a wrong claim without a figure in it passes every time, because there is nothing to compare against. So the ledger catches arithmetic, and the prose still needs a reader willing to walk the trail.
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