id: claim-verify-research title: Claim-Verify Research Brief category: research primitive: /goal use_when: You want a research brief where every claim is independently verified before it is allowed to stay. verify: Each surviving claim has >= 2 independent supporting sources; unverified claims were cut or flagged. tags: [research, verification, cite-or-cut]

Claim-Verify Research Brief

Draft a brief, then make a separate verifier try to refute each claim; keep only what survives. Primitive: /goal ยท Category: research

Use when

You need a research summary you can trust. A drafting pass tends to assert plausible-but-wrong claims; a separate verification pass that tries to refute each one keeps the brief honest.

Prompt

Goal:        Produce a verified brief on <question> where every claim is independently supported.
Context:     The allowed sources; a separate verifier that tries to REFUTE each drafted claim.
Constraints: A claim stays only if >= 2 independent sources support it (writer != verifier).
Done-when:   Every claim in the brief is verified; unverified claims are cut or flagged.
Evidence:    A claim ledger (claim -> sources -> verdict); the final brief.
If-blocked:  If a key claim can't be verified, flag it as "unverified" rather than dropping silently.

Verify

A separate verifier re-checks each claim against the sources and tries to refute it; only claims with sufficient independent support survive into the final brief.

Steps

  1. Draft the brief with candidate claims.
  2. For each claim, an independent verifier attempts to refute it.
  3. Keep verified claims; cut or flag the rest.

Notes

The maker-checker pattern applied to prose: the drafter and the verifier are different roles, so the brief can't grade its own confidence.