Source Research and Fact-Checking

Build verified sources before AI content is written.

When to use it

Research a tech topic

I have an AI model, developer tool, chip, robotics story, or platform event to cover. I want the facts, disagreements, and unknowns checked before anyone starts drafting.

Enrich source materials

I already have URLs, Markdown, text files, or PDFs. I want them treated as leads, compared with independent evidence, and turned into claims that a writer can safely use.

Find current AI stories

I need recent, evidence-backed story candidates rather than a list of headlines. I want each candidate ranked and tied to sources before I choose one.

Won't take

This is not for non-technology research, isolated fact lookups, rewriting a finished article, generating titles, or publishing content.

What it produces

A search result is never treated as proof until the original page has been opened and recorded.

• Independent run: Appends a research brief, source notes, and an editorial brief under reference/collect-sources/
• Orchestrated run: Returns a validated research package to content-production without creating a second run
• Evidence trail: Gives sources and claims stable IDs, records conflicts, and labels what is ready, uncertain, or unusable
• Research status: Closes as complete, partial, or blocked with unresolved gaps named explicitly
• External activity: Searches and reads public web sources, then writes only the designated research files
• Never: Drafts the article, changes supplied source files, asks for logins, or copies full copyrighted pages

Prerequisites & boundaries

Prerequisites

A supported AI or adjacent-technology topic, a writable working directory, and access to public search and page-reading tools are required. Supplied local materials must be readable.

Neighbor skill split

Need	Hand off to
Run the full publishing package	content-production
Write from approved evidence	draft-content
Check a finished article	credibility-review

Scenarios it declines

• Research unrelated to technology or content production
• Pages that require a login, payment, CAPTCHA, or manual verification
• Requests to write, format, illustrate, or publish the final content

Subtle edges

• A writing request may continue only after this skill returns a usable handoff; this skill itself stops at research
• Conflicting credible sources remain visible instead of being silently resolved
• If no candidate has traceable evidence, the result is blocked rather than padded with weak stories