Citation extraction - find every citation before you check it

Philosophy

You can only verify what you first find. Grounding a citation checks whether it exists in the source - but it runs on a list that someone has to assemble first. This skill is that front-end: it walks the text and lists every authority, so none slips past verification. A missed citation is an unverified one.

Extraction is mechanical (patterns + rules, not an LLM) on purpose - a model asked to find citations might miss one or invent one. Local, jurisdiction-neutral, EU-aware.

Three steps (after eyecite)