Refmatter: Chain of Custody for Creative AI References

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Refmatter separates observed source facts from user-owned annotations: titles, notes, and tags are protected from refreshes with optimistic concurrency. Its returned reference can include the source title, duration, platform, media container, dimensions, content hash, capture time, and contract version. The page also describes a deliberately limited acquisition model: public unauthenticated material only, with stable failure codes when a source will not serve content rather than partially populated results.