Thin wrapper around ix.provenance.apply_reliability_flags. Validate
skips entirely when include_provenance is off OR when no provenance
data was built (text-only request, etc.). Process reads
context.texts + context.use_case_response and lets the verifier mutate
the FieldProvenance entries + fill quality_metrics counters in place.
11 unit tests in tests/unit/test_reliability_step.py cover: validate
skips on flag off / missing provenance, runs otherwise; per-type
flag behaviour (string verified + text_agreement, Literal -> None,
None value -> None, short numeric -> text_agreement None, date with
both sides parsed, IBAN whitespace-insensitive, disagreement -> False);
quality_metrics verified_fields / text_agreement_fields counters.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
