Find agent skills by outcome

- Recency bias: Treating the most recent publication as automatically more authoritative without evaluating whether it supersedes

contradicts

- Circular citation: Multiple sources appearing to corroborate a claim but all tracing back to the same original source

creating an illusion of independent verification

- Flag structural break risks: regulatory changes

technological disruptions

- Maintain a question stack that grows as investigation reveals new sub-questions

and triage it by relevance and feasibility

- Present multiple scenarios (base case

optimistic

- Assess the claim against established scientific consensus

official records

- Identify leading indicators

lagging indicators

- Weight evidence by source credibility

methodological rigor

- Trace claims to their original source

verifying each link in the citation chain rather than relying on secondary reports

- Rotate query formulations using synonyms

domain terminology

- [ ] The methodology section accurately describes the search strategies

evaluation criteria

- [ ] Bias detection has been performed on the overall evidence set (selection

confirmation

- [ ] Contradictions between sources have been identified

investigated

- Synthesize findings across studies with attention to heterogeneity

moderating variables

- Assess publication bias by checking for file-drawer effects

p-hacking indicators

- Identify the current scholarly consensus

active debates

- Identify regulatory

economic

- Assess technology adoption patterns through diffusion curve analysis

case studies

- Assess geopolitical implications by tracing historical precedents

alliance structures

- Evaluate competitive landscapes by mapping market share

product differentiation

- Establish factual timelines by reconciling first-hand accounts

official statements

- Identify information operations

propaganda patterns

- Trace technology evolution through version histories

specification changes

- Assess competing technical approaches by comparing architecture trade-offs

performance characteristics