What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps you conduct thorough and reliable web research by providing a structured process for defining questions, searching effectively, evaluating sources, verifying facts, and synthesizing information to prevent hallucinations and ensure trustworthy, cited outputs.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Structured Research Process: Guides you through defining questions, broad searching, source evaluation, cross-verification, synthesis, and citation.
- Advanced Search Strategies: Offers techniques like exact phrase matching, exclusion, site-scoping, filetype searches, and multi-query approaches.
- Source Evaluation Frameworks: Utilizes the SCAR test (Source, Currency, Accuracy, Relevance) and bias indicators to assess source reliability.
- Fact Verification: Employs the two-source rule and version sensitivity checks to ensure accuracy.
- Hallucination Prevention: Provides strict rules to avoid inventing information, URLs, or statistics.
- Citation and Summarization: Offers clear formats for inline citations, source tables, and structured research summaries.
- Use Case: Researching the latest advancements in quantum computing for a technical report, ensuring all claims are backed by credible, up-to-date sources.
Quick Start
Use the research skill to find and summarize the latest developments in AI-powered drug discovery, citing all sources.