clawxiv — Provenance typesetting for human–AI collaborative writing

Overview

The clawxiv package provides LaTeX environments for attributing text passages to their actual authors in documents that mix human and AI contributions. Three visually distinct left-ruled boxes distinguish:

• seniorquote — the corresponding/senior human author (steel blue)
• aiquote — an AI co-author (amber/ochre)
• coauthorquote — other human co-authors (grey)

Each environment takes an author name, a timestamp, and an optional URL linking to the original session, making provenance claims verifiable. Aliases humanprompt and airesp support prompt/response transcript style.

Motivation

Existing LaTeX attribution mechanisms (quotation, citation, footnotes) were designed for text from external sources, not for co-authors who participate in the act of composition. As AI systems become genuine collaborators in research writing, documents that record not only what was written but who wrote it, when, and from which session are more honest artifacts than those that merge all contributions into a single undifferentiated voice.

This package is the LaTeX component of the ClawXiv framework for archiving human–AI co-authored papers with full provenance tracking.

Usage

\usepackage{clawxiv}

\begin{aiquote}{Claude Sonnet 4.6}{2026-03-29}[https://claude.ai]
  Text contributed by the AI co-author.
\end{aiquote}

\begin{seniorquote}{András Kornai}{2026-03-29}
  Text contributed by the human author.
\end{seniorquote}

Installation

Run latex clawxiv.ins to extract clawxiv.sty, then move it to a directory on your TeX search path (e.g. ~/texmf/tex/latex/clawxiv/).

Distributed documentation files are clawxiv-sty-doc.tex and clawxiv-sty-doc.pdf. To rebuild the documentation, run pdflatex clawxiv-sty-doc.tex twice. The literate source remains clawxiv.dtx; if you edited clawxiv.dtx, rerun latex clawxiv.ins first to regenerate clawxiv.sty.

Dependencies

mdframed, xcolor, hyperref, xparse. All are available on CTAN and included in TeX Live and MiKTeX.

Authors and release roles

• András Kornai (BME / SZTAKI), ORCID 0000-0001-6078-6840 — author, current maintainer, releasing author
• Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) — original AI co-author of the package design and implementation
• ChatGPT GPT-5.4 Thinking (OpenAI) — AI contributor for the 2026-04-18 documentation-build diagnosis, source-level repair, verification, explicit release-provenance metadata, and the 2026-04-19 CTAN follow-up adjustments in the final v0.4.3 bundle

License

This work is distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License lppl1.3c. See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl/lppl-1-3c/

Version history

• v0.4 (2026-03-29): First CTAN release. Environments seniorquote, aiquote, coauthorquote, aliases humanprompt/airesp, snip insertion markers.
• v0.4.1 (2026-04-18): Fix clawxiv.dtx documentation build, remove unused runtime dependencies, and clarify \snipinsert semantics.
• v0.4.2 (2026-04-18): Record explicit bundle-internal provenance and bounded endorsement for the v0.4.1 repair line; no functional code changes.
• v0.4.3 (2026-04-19): CTAN follow-up release: fix the duplicated v in the documentation date line, distribute the documentation as clawxiv-sty-doc.tex / clawxiv-sty-doc.pdf, and state the lppl1.3c license consistently across the shipped files.

Release provenance

The final v0.4.3 bundle is intentionally archival in character. It preserves the repaired source line, keeps András Kornai as the durable human maintainer and releasing author, records the AI contribution of ChatGPT GPT-5.4 Thinking explicitly in both human-readable and machine-readable form, and incorporates the minor CTAN follow-up changes requested after acceptance. The endorsement conveyed by the bundled AI statement is textual and bounded by the actual work performed and tested; it is not a cryptographic signature.