qarina
/qa·ri·na/ noun · Arabic legal termlaw. A corroborating circumstance. Evidence that points toward the truth but must be verified before it can prove anything.
software. An open-source research workspace for human rights investigators. It searches the lanes you permit, collects what it finds, records how it found it, and hands back a report you can take apart. Every claim keeps its receipt.
AI finds leads. Humans establish facts.
Six lanes: web, news, images, video, documents, and channels. You decide which may run, and the model is handed only the tools you allowed. Not a request in a prompt, a shorter list of what exists. Twenty image results a sweep, because a wider net costs the same as a narrow one.
Every YouTube result is opened, not just linked: channel and publication metadata, a timestamped transcript, thumbnails for reverse search, and the pivots worth trying next. This lane runs before the model gets a turn, so the evidence does not depend on the model thinking to look.
Each report closes with its own methodology: every tool call with a timestamp, the models that ran, the cited pages pushed to the Internet Archive, and a SHA-256 of the report body. A reader who distrusts the conclusion can audit the collection.
Schedule 1 · what it does
- content credentials
- Images are checked for a C2PA manifest: who signed it, what edited it, and whether the file declares itself AI-generated. A signature, not a detector's hunch.
- channels
- Public Telegram channels are read post by post, each entry linked to its own message rather than the channel it came from. Arabic and English alike.
- x
- Searched through Grok's native index when you switch it on. Off by default, because it bills per search and you should be the one deciding to spend it.
- two languages
- Reports in Arabic or English. Arabic is typeset in Amiri and reads right to left, not bolted on as an afterthought.
- the ledger
- Every run states what it cost, as billed by the provider rather than estimated from a price list. An instrument you cannot afford to run is not an instrument.
- durability
- Close the tab and the run finishes anyway. Come back to the address and the report is waiting. Investigations outlast browser sessions.
- custody
- Each account holds its own workspace. Research is not pooled between users, and the history belongs to whoever ran it.
Schedule 2 · what it will not do
A tool for accountability work is judged as much by its refusals as by its features. These are load-bearing.
- It will not tell you an image is authentic.
- It will not score a video for deepfake likelihood.
- It will not geolocate a photograph and call it a finding.
- It will not treat missing content credentials as evidence of tampering. Most platforms strip them when they re-encode an upload.
- It will not present a channel post or a search summary as verified, because neither is. They are labelled leads.
- It will not promise preservation. Archiving is best effort, and a snapshot request that fails is not proof that anything was kept.
- It will not claim a hash makes a report true. The hash proves the text was not altered after it was generated. Nothing more.