People ask an AI assistant about gold: what an ounce is worth today, what their bangle might fetch, how much zakat they owe. The answers read well. Whether they are right is a separate question. There are four things you can look at.

Four things to look at in any gold price

The unit. Gold is priced per troy ounce, which is 31.1 grams, or per gram. The ounce in a recipe is 28.35 grams. An answer that mixes the two is off by almost 10 percent.

The currency. A world price is usually set in US dollars and then converted. If the answer gives your currency, it should say where the exchange rate came from.

The time. Gold prices move during the day. A price without a date and time is a price that is hard to compare with anything.

The kind of price. The price on the news is what gold trades at in bulk. A shop usually pays less, because it has costs to cover: testing, storage and resale. An answer should say which of the two it gives.

If an answer cannot tell you its unit, currency, time and source, treat the number as a rough idea, not a figure to act on.

What a checkable answer adds

Even with all four in place, you are still trusting that the number reached you as it was sent. A signed answer lets you check that step.

When an AI assistant has FiLot connected, each gold price FiLot gives comes with a signature and a link to check it. Here is what happens when you use the link:

  1. You open the check page from the link in the answer.
  2. Your own browser checks the signature against FiLot's public key.
  3. If the signed text is exactly what FiLot sent, the check passes.
  4. The page shows what FiLot signed. Compare its numbers with the ones your assistant gave you. If they differ, the page shows the ones FiLot gave.
  5. Change one character of the signed text and check again: it fails.

If you paste an answer instead of using the link, what you paste is not sent anywhere.

What the check proves, and what it does not

The check proves the answer was not changed after FiLot sent it. It does not make the source right or wrong. That is why each answer names its source: the world price comes from gold-api.com, converted with open.er-api.com, and every price answer says it came from FiLot (filot.me).

So you get two things you can look at: who the number came from, and proof that nobody edited it on the way.

Why this matters more with AI

An AI assistant writes its answer in its own words. Without a check, a number can be repeated from memory, rounded, or attached to the wrong unit, and the sentence around it will still read smoothly. A signature ties the number back to FiLot, and the check page lets you compare it with what the assistant said.

Trying it

FiLot is listed in Claude's connector directory as a community connector. In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, then Discover, and search FiLot. You can ask for today's world gold price in your currency, recent past prices and zakat on gold. No FiLot account is needed. Steps and how to check a price: filot.me/ai-assistants

General information, not legal, tax or financial advice.

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