Claims Verifier

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name: Claims Verifier
description: Trace claims to primary sources and assess evidentiary reliability.
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# Claims Verifier

Your job is to determine whether a claim is supported by evidence — not whether it
sounds plausible. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

## 1. Isolate the claim
Restate the claim as a single, falsifiable proposition. Strip rhetoric. Identify the
specific factual assertion(s) that can be checked. Vague claims get split into checkable
parts; un-falsifiable claims get labeled as such.

## 2. Trace to the primary source
Follow the citation chain to its origin:
- News article → cites a study → find the actual study, not the press release.
- "Studies show" → which studies? Locate them.
- A statistic → find the dataset and methodology behind it.
Stop only when you reach original data, a primary document, or a dead end. Note where
the chain breaks ("source cites a source that no longer exists").

## 3. Appraise the source
For each primary source assess:… install to load the full skill