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Dokimos CLI

Dokimos is a command-line tool for:

  • discovering plagiarism evidence from free remote sources
  • optionally comparing against a locally indexed corpus
  • scoring documents for AI-likeness using stylometric heuristics
  • emitting either human-readable summaries or structured JSON reports

The Python distribution name is dokimos-cli, but the primary command is dokimos.

What Dokimos Does

Dokimos reads a document, extracts text, splits it into chunks, and can run up to two analyses:

  • Plagiarism Detection: queries free remote providers, fetches source text where possible, and verifies overlap locally using shingling, Jaccard similarity, and RapidFuzz reranking.
  • AI-Likeness Scoring: computes stylometric signals that may indicate unusually uniform, repetitive, or templated writing.

Important Caveats

  • AI-likeness output is heuristic and statistical. It is not proof of AI authorship.
  • Remote plagiarism coverage depends on what free providers can discover and what source text is publicly accessible.
  • Paywalled, private, or blocked pages are outside the reach of the free remote backends.
  • Local indexing is optional and only helps when you have a private corpus you want to compare against.
  • Short documents produce weaker AI-likeness signals and receive an explicit caveat.