PURPOSE: Split text into independently checkable ATOMIC factual claims — the cheap first step of a verification loop (extract -> ground -> attest). Returns {claims: [...], count, input_sha256} plus a signed receipt bound to the input hash.
GUIDELINES: Call when you want to see WHICH claims a document makes before paying to ground them, to budget a verification pass (extract everything, then verify_claim only the claims that matter to your decision), or to prove later exactly which claims were pulled from exactly which text (the receipt binds both). Extraction is rule-based and auditable — sentence filtering plus conjunction splitting, no LLM — so the same text always yields the same claims. Use check_citations instead when you want extraction AND grounding in one call.
PARAMETERS: text — the prose to decompose. max_claims — 1..50, default 20.
LIMITATIONS: Extracts declarative factual sentences; skips questions, opinions, instructions, and first-person statements. Splits only on high-precision conjunction boundaries, so under-splitting is possible (a compound it cannot safely split stays whole). Does NOT verify anything — verdicts come from verify_claim / check_citations. Paid per call (x402), cheapest tool on this server.
EXAMPLE: extract_claims({"text": "Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes and was born in Paris."}) -> {count: 2, claims: ["Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes", "was born in Paris."]}