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evidence-synthesis from cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/evidence-synthesis@git:20260802.d219d53

Pins git:20260802.d219d53 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
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Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents
Path
plugins/zetetic-reasoning/skills/evidence-synthesis/SKILL.md
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Latest version
git:20260802.d219d53, committed Aug 2, 2026
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Repository stars
8
License
MIT

Synthesize multiple papers, benchmarks, interviews, reviews, or other sources into a defensible and qualified conclusion. Use for conflicting evidence, literature synthesis, claim auditing, argument mapping, qualitative coding, belief updates, or any request that must expose counter-evidence, uncertainty, and source limitations.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Evidence Synthesis

Turn a corpus into a traceable conclusion. Treat a conclusion as provisional
unless multiple independent primary sources support it under conditions that
match the question.

The bundled references are modern, reusable reconstructions grounded in the
cited works. Do not present their exact workflows as historical claims that the
named figures stated verbatim.

## Select the reasoning references

Read every reference needed for the source shape. Combine references when the
question crosses rows.

| Reference | Use it for |
|---|---|
| [Cochrane](references/cochrane.md) | systematic search, study appraisal, heterogeneity, publication bias |
| [Toulmin](references/toulmin.md) | claim, evidence, warrant, qualifier and rebuttal structure |
| [Feynman](references/feynman.md) | rederivation, plain-language integrity checks, cargo-cult detection |
| [Darwin](references/darwin.md) | long-horizon accumulation, difficulty books, strongest contrary case first |
| [Laplace](references/laplace.md) | explicit prior-to-posterior belief updates and sensitivity analysis |
| [Gadamer](references/gadamer.md) | interpretation, pre-understanding and charitable reading |
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/evidence-synthesis@sha256:9049201e09b730e9

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260802.d219d53, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Source

GitHub

cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yojwigtfoddlxoa4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/evidence-synthesis
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9049201e09b730e99cf07874407ed14bf75f386118a8676403f2bc9305735ae7

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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