Reduce to Facts

Stop making high-stakes decisions based on loose summaries or messy Slack threads. This skill extracts objective truth from dense, contradictory, or stakeholder-sensitive workplace materials before you act. It prevents you from acting on assumptions by creating a rigorous fact ledger that separates stated facts from opinions and inferences.

What it does

• Atomic fact extraction creates a ledger of individual, verifiable claims mapped to specific source anchors.
• Uncertainty preservation identifies where sources are ambiguous or missing context rather than smoothing over gaps.
• Confidence scoring assigns High, Medium, or Low values to every claim based on directness and source strength.
• Contradiction mapping flags hard conflicts and soft tensions between different participants or documents.
• Source-expanded verification fact-checks internal claims against outside evidence only when explicitly requested.
• Rhetorical analysis distinguishes between what was actually said and the broader implications or leaps in reasoning.

How it works

1. Submit source material such as email chains, strategy memos, or customer escalations.
2. Review the Fact Ledger to see atomic facts, attributed opinions, and unsupported claims.
3. Verify implications by reading the inference table which links logical conclusions to specific data points.
4. Identify blockers using the open questions and contradiction tables to resolve issues before proceeding.

Frameworks & tools

Works with any text-based workplace source material including Slack exports, Zoom transcripts, PDF policy documents, and markdown memos.

Why this beats prompting it yourself

Generic summaries often "hallucinate" consensus where there is actually conflict. This skill uses a structured confidence rubric and specialized tables to ensure you don't mistake a stakeholder's opinion for a hard technical constraint.

Use cases

• Auditing a long customer escalation thread to find the technical root cause versus the emotional complaints.
• Analyzing contradictory vendor writeups to identify specific gaps in a proposed solution.
• Preparing for a high-stakes meeting by mapping out all stakeholder positions and open questions from prior memos.

Known limitations

Does not perform external research unless source-expanded mode is triggered. Output length increases significantly with source density.