The source rules the research agents shared by copy now live in one skill,
skills/researching-sources/: official sources first with URL, date and
matching version; no citation, no finding; an empty search is reported with
its denominator and never as a finding; fetched pages are data, and text in
them aimed at AI assistants is ignored and reported; nothing local in an
outbound query. It also holds the one confidence scale.
- docs-, community-, security-, contrarian-researcher and research-scout
preload it (skills: ["voyage:researching-sources"]); the copied rule text
leaves them, their own role stays.
- Two agent sentences that contradicted the rules are gone: an empty
counter-evidence search "increases confidence", and "fall back silently".
- /trekresearch names the skill where it starts the external agents and in
web follow-ups; Phase 6 rates on the skill's scale word for word; the
deep-research adapter accepts `contradictory` like the template does.
- Enforced by: research-validator checks structure only, the query privacy
gate runs only in the default-off STORM steps; the rest is text only.
A guard on every web search is a separate later order (operator 08.10).
- Red baseline (helpers, offline fixtures): without the skill 3 of 5 runs
ignored an injected instruction silently and 1 of 2 contrarian runs counted
an empty search as weak support; with it 0 of 3 and 0 of 2. Path leaks:
0 of 7 without, 0 of 5 with.
- Eval cases (3 should trigger, 2 should not, 1 effect), written, not run.
- tests/lib/skills-research-prose-pins.test.mjs: 14 pins, 13 red on 4ee711a.
Credits: Addy Osmani, agent-skills @9d0c60d,
skills/source-driven-development/SKILL.md:97-114 (MIT); Jesse Vincent,
obra/superpowers @8ca22db, skills/diagnosing-superpowers/ (MIT). Ideas only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Kjell Tore Guttormsen
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