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academic-verify

Verify a research claim or academic citation by tracing it through publication → methodology → raw data → independent replication. Routes through perplexity-research for the actual web lookup, then formats results as a citation-checked brain page. Use when a book/article/conversation cites a study and you want to confirm the claim is real, replicated, and accurately characterized.

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SKILL.md
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Content

62%

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

The body is well-structured and actionable with a clear workflow and copy-paste output template, but it carries redundancy across sections and leaves the central web-lookup step as a delegated spec rather than a literal prompt. Validation checkpoints on output are implicit rather than explicit.

Suggestions

Consolidate the repeated 4-stage trace chain and verdict definitions so 'What this is', 'How it works Step 4', and 'Standards' each add new information rather than restating the same list.

Provide a literal, copy-paste-ready prompt string for the perplexity-research invocation in Step 3 instead of a bullet-list of asks, so the core lookup is fully specified.

Add an explicit validation checkpoint before writing the brain page (e.g., confirm raw-data availability and replication status are evidenced before assigning the verdict), turning the implicit anti-patterns into an explicit verify-then-write step.

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Conciseness

Dense and mostly actionable, but the 4-stage chain and verdict definitions are restated across 'What this is', 'How it works Step 4', and 'Standards', so it could be tightened; it is not padded with concept primer fluff.

2 / 3

Actionability

Gives a concrete gbrain query command and a copy-paste-ready output template, but the core lookup step delegates to perplexity-research with a bullet-list spec rather than a literal ready-to-send prompt, leaving the most important step incompletely specified.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clear 5-step sequence with an explicit brain-first gating check, but formal validation/feedback checkpoints on the written output are only implicit (via anti-patterns), not explicit verify-then-proceed loops.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist; the single SKILL.md is well-organized into clear sections with well-signaled one-level-deep references to conventions and sibling skills, and no nested reference chains.

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, complete, and well-differentiated: it states concrete actions, gives an explicit 'Use when' trigger with natural language, and distinguishes itself from adjacent research/brain skills. Third-person voice is preserved throughout.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — verifying a claim by 'tracing it through publication → methodology → raw data → independent replication', routing through perplexity-research, and 'formats results as a citation-checked brain page'.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what (trace a citation through a 4-stage pipeline) and when (the 'Use when...' clause names the triggering situation).

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

The 'Use when a book/article/conversation cites a study and you want to confirm the claim is real, replicated, and accurately characterized' clause uses natural phrasing a user would actually say.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Carves a clear niche — academic/research citation verification — explicitly distinguished from generic perplexity-research, gbrain query, and citation-fixer.

3 / 3

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12

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12

Passed

Validation

87%

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

Validation14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

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relative_links

Relative link issues: 2 missing, 3 suspicious

Warning

Total

14

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16

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