Find agent skills by outcome

- Establish factual timelines by reconciling first-hand accounts

official statements

- Identify information operations

propaganda patterns

Research & Learning

- Identify emerging trends by analyzing research publication patterns

conference proceedings

- Trace technology evolution through version histories

specification changes

Marketing

- Distinguish between vendor marketing claims

community consensus

- Assess competing technical approaches by comparing architecture trade-offs

performance characteristics

- Evaluate technical claims against peer-reviewed literature

official documentation

- 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 source...

Moderate (limited authoritative sources or minor contradictions)

- Explicitly separate established facts (high-confidence

multiply-corroborated) from informed interpretations (moderate-confidence

- Conduct bias detection across the collected evidence set

checking for selection bias

- Detect reasoning gaps where the evidence trail has logical discontinuities

unstated assumptions

- Build evidence matrices mapping each claim to its supporting sources

confidence level

- Apply causal chain analysis to distinguish correlation from causation

identify confounding variables

Writing & Content

- Assign a source reliability rating (primary/peer-reviewed

secondary/editorial

- Perform contradiction resolution by examining methodological differences

temporal context

- Map the evidence landscape to identify convergent findings (claims supported by multiple independe...

divergent findings (contradictory claims)

Data

- Flag information provenance gaps where original sources cannot be traced

data methodology is undisclosed

- Evaluate recency and temporal relevance

distinguishing between foundational works that remain authoritative and outdated information superseded by newer findings

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

isolated claims

Productivity

- Identify potential conflicts of interest including funding sources

organizational affiliations

- Maintain a retrieval log documenting every search query

source accessed

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

author domain expertise