alcove-dux 0.1.0

Local-first plagiarism and text-reuse evidence toolkit

Alcove Dux

Local-first plagiarism and text-reuse evidence for reviewers.

Alcove Dux is an open-source, local-first toolkit for reviewing plagiarism and text-reuse evidence.

Alcove Dux is a review aid, not an automated misconduct decision system. It helps humans inspect similarity evidence without making unsupported accusations.

⚡ Start Here

• Quick Start: install locally and run a sample scan.
• Demo Walkthrough: run the sample demo and inspect the generated report.
• CLI Usage: command reference for pairwise scans, corpus scans, semantic matching, and calibration.
• Reports: JSON, public HTML, local review HTML, and report privacy behavior.
• Privacy Boundary: what Alcove Dux does and does not expose.

🔎 What It Does

• Text, Markdown, PDF, and DOCX ingestion.
• Exact, fuzzy, semantic, and reranked similarity evidence.
• Pairwise scans and local-corpus scans from the CLI.
• Local FastAPI dashboard for document upload, scan creation, and side-by-side review.
• Screen-reader-friendly dashboard and HTML reports with privacy-preserving exports.

📚 Documentation

• Research Notes and Benchmarks
• Configuration, Datasets, and Multilingual Detection
• Vector Stores and Alcove Plugin Plan
• Deployment Notes, Hosted Hardening, and Repository Setup
• Roadmap and Demo Video Script

📦 Package

The package name is alcove-dux, the import path is alcove_dux, and the CLI command is alcove-dux. The core engine can be used as a CLI, Python library, local FastAPI app, or Alcove plugin.

🤝 Contributing

Alcove Dux is maintained as a public open-source project. Contributions are encouraged to keep the local-first privacy boundary intact, include tests for behavioral changes, and keep private corpora, generated reports, model caches, and vector indexes out of public commits.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, checks, and privacy rules.