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research-synthesis

Decision-grade workflow for synthesizing a source set into clear findings, contradictions, confidence markers, gaps, and next questions. Use for prompts like "synthesize these sources", "turn this research into a brief", "what are the key findings", or "where do these sources disagree". Best when you have a research question, a defined audience, and a set of source materials. Optional Open Brain search and capture can pull prior context and store the final synthesis.

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Content

85%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a concise, well-structured instruction-only skill with a clear sequenced workflow and strong judgment rules; its main gap is the lack of a concrete example output or template to make the deliverable fully actionable.

Suggestions

Add a short example output (a sample synthesized brief skeleton) under the Output section so the deliverable format is copy-paste ready.

Include one worked mini-example showing how a contradiction is documented explicitly, to demonstrate the 'never flatten into fake consensus' rule in practice.

Add an explicit 'verify before delivering' step in the Process (e.g., re-check that every confidence marker traces to a source) to make the quality checkpoint concrete rather than implicit.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence — it never explains what synthesis or sources are, and every section (Process, Evidence and Judgment Rules, Output) earns its place, matching the lean-and-efficient anchor.

3 / 3

Actionability

Guidance is concrete and specific ('Never flatten contradiction into fake consensus', 'If the source set is thin, say the synthesis is thin'), but it stops short of a copy-paste-ready output template or example brief, leaving a key detail missing for the instruction-only analog of score 3.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The seven-step Process is clearly sequenced and includes built-in quality checkpoints (mark confidence, resolve-or-preserve disagreement, end with what remains unclear); the task is non-fragile so the absence of hard validation loops is acceptable.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

A self-contained, well-organized single-file overview with clear sections and no nested references; nothing is inappropriately bundled or split, and no external references are needed.

3 / 3

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Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is specific, uses natural user-facing trigger phrases, and explicitly covers both capabilities and when-to-use triggers, all in clean third-person voice.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete synthesis outputs — 'findings, contradictions, confidence markers, gaps, and next questions' — matching the anchor for multiple specific concrete actions.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what (synthesize a source set into structured outputs) and when via a 'Use for prompts like...' clause with explicit triggers, satisfying the both-what-and-when anchor.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural phrases a user would actually say — 'synthesize these sources', 'turn this research into a brief', 'what are the key findings', 'where do these sources disagree' — giving good coverage of natural trigger terms.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear research-synthesis niche with distinct trigger phrasing, making it unlikely to fire for unrelated skills; matches the clear-niche anchor.

3 / 3

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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