Find agent skills by outcome

- Identify emerging trends by analyzing research publication patterns

conference proceedings

- Assess competing technical approaches by comparing architecture trade-offs

performance characteristics

- Evaluate technical claims against peer-reviewed literature

official documentation

- Trace technology evolution through version histories

specification changes

- Produce a methodology section documenting search strategies employed

sources evaluated

- Identify and document remaining knowledge gaps

open questions

- Assign confidence levels using a structured scale: High (multiple independent authoritative sources agree)

Moderate (limited authoritative sources or minor contradictions)

- Conduct bias detection across the collected evidence set

checking for selection bias

- Explicitly separate established facts (high-confidence

multiply-corroborated) from informed interpretations (moderate-confidence

- Build evidence matrices mapping each claim to its supporting sources

confidence level

- Apply causal chain analysis to distinguish correlation from causation

identify confounding variables

- Detect reasoning gaps where the evidence trail has logical discontinuities

unstated assumptions

- Perform contradiction resolution by examining methodological differences

temporal context

- Map the evidence landscape to identify convergent findings (claims supported by multiple independent sources)

divergent findings (contradictory claims)

- Cross-reference claims across independent sources to detect corroboration patterns

isolated claims

- Evaluate recency and temporal relevance

distinguishing between foundational works that remain authoritative and outdated information superseded by newer findings

- Prioritize primary sources and peer-reviewed publications over secondary commentary

news aggregation

- Maintain a retrieval log documenting every search query

source accessed

- Assess each source against a structured credibility rubric: publication venue reputation

author domain expertise

- Apply multi-hop retrieval chains: follow citation trails from seed sources

expand entity networks

- Execute broad discovery searches to map the information landscape

identify major themes

- Formulate initial search hypotheses and anticipate likely information landscapes

including which source types will be most authoritative

- Identify key entities

concepts

Systematically progress from query analysis through evidence collection

evaluation