Citing Lydite

If you use Lydite in a study, cite the software version you used and report the rule set. The generated methods paragraph names both.

Universal Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (UAIRI). (2026). Lydite: an open, auditable respondent-authenticity toolkit for online research (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://github.com/zhihz/lydite

Citation metadata is in CITATION.cff; GitHub's "Cite this repository" button produces APA and BibTeX from it. Each release will be archived on Zenodo with a DOI. Once available, cite the DOI of the exact version you used.

Methods paragraph

The analyzers write lydite_methods.txt, for example:

Response authenticity was assessed with Lydite v0.1.0 (UAIRI, 2026). The collector recorded aggregated input-provenance and timing features without capturing response content, key values, or clipboard contents. … Respondents were classified using rule set rules-v1 with a target false-positive rate of 1%; the default thresholds had not yet been calibrated on benchmark data. Of N = … respondents, … were classified as AI-assisted and … as likely automated …

Edit it to fit your study, and keep the sentences about calibration and payment.