Research & Source Credibility Gate Agent Skill

Research and AI-generated reports often suffer from hallucinations, circular citations, and cherry-picked data. This skill functions as an adversarial auditor, stress-testing claims against source quality to ensure your output is defensible. It moves beyond simple summarization to identify where evidence fails to support specific assertions.

What it does

• Claim extraction identifies discrete factual, numerical, and causal statements for independent analysis.
• Evidence auditing matches specific passages against cited sources to detect misrepresentations or weak support.
• Verdict assignment classifies findings as TRUST, VERIFY, or REJECT based on evidence strength and recency.
• Risk assessment weights findings by severity to determine if a report is safe for production or needs major revision.
• Framing analysis detects selective evidence, missing baselines, and correlation-causation fallacies.

How it works

1. Intake the research brief, article, or AI response along with any provided source links or citations.
2. Audit each material claim by inspecting source methodology, publication dates, and primary data.
3. Generate a structured Credibility Audit report detailing specific contradictions or evidence gaps.
4. Prioritize necessary verification actions to resolve high-severity risks.

Frameworks & tools

This skill is framework-agnostic and designed for use within LLM environments that support web browsing or document analysis. It operates on structured logic to evaluate research quality regardless of the underlying industry domain.

Why this beats prompting it yourself

Standard prompts often produce "yes-men" agents that confirm your existing text. This skill uses a strict adversarial workflow and a predefined verdict schema to force the agent to find friction points and evidence gaps it would otherwise ignore.

Use cases

• Auditing AI-generated technical whitepapers for hallucinated citations.
• Reviewing market research reports for stale data or one-sided framing.
• Fact-checking blog posts or articles before publication.
• Validating internal policy documents against source regulations.

Known limitations

Does not guarantee exhaustive fact-checking or replace expert judgment. Verdicts are limited by the accessibility of cited sources and the current knowledge cutoff of the agent.