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meta-research

A rigorous, cross-verified, source-cited brief — with explicit confidence and reusable knowledge atoms.

MANY SOURCES → ONE VERIFIED, CONFIDENCE-RATED CLAIM source A source B source C source D CROSS- VERIFIED CONFIDENCE high · 4 sources agree disagreement → flagged, not hidden WHAT'S HAPPENING 1 · Gather several sources that don't depend on each other. 2 · Check every claim against all of them, not just one. 3 · Agree → confidence rises. Conflict → it gets flagged. Confidence just means: how many independent sources back this, and how well they agree.
FIG — independent sources converge; agreement raises confidence, conflict gets flagged
// what it does

A confident-sounding paragraph is not research. meta-research gathers independent sources, cross-checks them against each other, and states how sure it is — with the citation attached to every claim, not a bibliography dumped at the end.

Where sources disagree, it says so instead of picking a winner. And it breaks findings into reusable knowledge atoms — small, cited facts you can carry into the next question.

// the brief
cross-verified

Claims checked against independent sources, not one confident page.

confidence, stated

Every finding says how sure — and flags where sources conflict.

knowledge atoms

Small, cited facts you can reuse in the next question.

// invoke it
/meta-suite:meta-research <the question you need to be sure about>

Returns a cross-verified, source-cited brief with explicit confidence and reusable knowledge atoms — so you can act on it, and defend it when someone asks how you know.

Cited per claim

Not a dumped bibliography.

States confidence

No false certainty.

Shows conflict

Disagreement isn't hidden.

It compounds

Atoms carry forward.

Grounding

The ideas here aren't invented — the skill generalizes established practice into one reusable, task-agnostic move. Below: the prior art it builds on, and the in-repo contract it actually runs on.

Prior art
Triangulation — corroborate every load-bearing claim across independent sources; flag anything that rests on one.
GRADE — grading the certainty of evidence (high / moderate / low) — report confidence per conclusion; never launder inference as fact.
Disconfirming evidence — actively seek the case against a claim, not just the case for it (the adversarial cross-check).
In this suite
The six-stage pipeline references/method.md — decompose → fan out → triage → cross-verify → synthesize → capture.