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name: research-grounded-writing

description: Draft or substantially revise source-backed nonfiction explicitly requested as a finished writing artifact, such as an article, essay, profile, technical explainer, report, or decision memo. Exclude research-only requests, app playtests, working notes, link collections, and routine factual answers, even when saved as Markdown.

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# Research-grounded writing

Support substantive claims in the requested artifact. Keep research proportional

to what the reader needs to assess the conclusions.

## Build the evidence

- Prefer direct records and primary sources. Add independent sources when they

supply relevant criticism, corroboration, or a competing explanation.

- Distinguish direct observation, source claims, user-supplied context, and

inference. Label uncertainty that could change the conclusion.

- Include dates, versions, sample, and coverage when they limit what a source

proves. Missing evidence is not a zero result or proof of absence.

- Consider contrary evidence when it could overturn a material claim; do not

collect opposing views merely to create balance.

- For comparisons, state the decision criteria and apply them consistently.

Separate measured results from product claims and your recommendation.

## Attribute and check

Place a supporting link or citation beside the claim it supports. Paraphrase

faithfully; reserve quotations for wording that matters. Do not add irrelevant

sources to reach a citation count.

Before delivery, verify consequential factual claims and quotations against

their sources, including quantities, dates, causal language, and link targets.

- Editing must not widen certainty beyond the evidence.

+ Editing must not widen certainty beyond the evidence. Keep internal verification

+ notes out of public prose unless the verification process is the subject. State

+ supported facts directly; retain a concise qualification when uncertainty changes

+ the reader’s understanding, rather than narrating every source limitation.

Stop when the requested artifact is supported and material uncertainties are

identified. Gather more evidence only when it could change a consequential

conclusion or resolve a missing requirement.

## Optional presentation advice

Organize around the reader's question rather than the order of research. Put

detailed provenance in an appendix only when readers need it. Apply a separate

editorial skill only when the requested writing benefits from that guidance.