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  5. Cross-source conflation
Agents & Tool Useaka source conflationaka wrong-source attribution

Cross-source conflation

Cross-source conflation is a true claim attributed to the wrong evidence source — supported somewhere in pooled tool output, but not by the source the answer names.

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Multiverse Computing named this failure mode in ProvenanceGuard (Hugging Face, September 29, 2026; arXiv 2606.18037). Source-blind faithfulness metrics can pass the claim because the fact exists in the combined context. A source-aware verifier should reject the attribution, which matters when MCP agents mix records, policies, search, and databases in one answer.

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