Augur

A people-intelligence engine: given a name or a handle, excavate the public artifact trail a person leaves across the open web, and turn scattered signals into provenance-stamped, confidence-scored facts.

Every fact Augur emits carries where it came from and how much to trust it:

{ "predicate": "email", "value": "…", "method": "gpg_uid", "reliability": 0.97, "vein": "github" }

The loop

resolve → dig → fuse → refute → place

• resolve — a name (+ optional city/country) → a GitHub handle, before you dig.
• dig — multi-vein excavation of a single individual (see veins below).
• fuse — join facts across veins on shared identifiers into one typed identity graph.
• refute — an adversarial pass that lowers confidence: a cert proves a domain exists, not that this subject controls it; softness is contagious upward.
• place — emit the corroborated, provenance-typed node.

Veins

Each excavator queries one public, logged-out source and returns typed facts:

Vein	Source
github	public API — commit-author emails, gpg-UID leaks, profile
openalex	scholarly authorship
orcid	researcher identifiers
companies_house	UK company officers
patents	inventor records
crtsh	certificate transparency (infra corroboration only)
keybase	cryptographically-signed cross-account clusters

Roadmap: npm/PyPI authors, Bluesky, ABR/ACNC (AU).

The consent line

Augur is built to be legal-clean and non-creepy by construction:

• Public, logged-out endpoints only, within each source's rate limits. No fake accounts, no logged-in scraping, no unmasking a noreply.
• Provenance is mandatory — every fact stamps the exact query it came from, so a downstream reader can re-run it.
• Reliability is measured, not asserted — free-mail addresses don't confer domain ownership; a self-asserted homepage never launders into "confirmed".

Usage

augur resolve --name "Ada Lovelace" --city London --country GB   # name → handle
augur dig <handle>                                                # github-rooted excavation
augur dig --name "Ada Lovelace" --hint "mathematician"            # name-rooted (scholarly + registry veins)
augur dig --name "…" --company <ukCompanyNo>                      # + UK Companies House officers

Zero-dependency Node (ESM). bin/augur.mjs orchestrates src/excavators/*; src/fact.mjs defines the fact shape; src/fuse.mjs / src/refute.mjs do the join and the confidence pass.

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