05-fact-check
ResearchVerify factual claims in a text against authoritative sources and rewrite it with footnote citations, hedging the unconfirmed. Use to fact-check, verify a claim, or cite sources on request. Not for judging code or clarifying requirements.
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Fact-check
Verifies the factual claims inside a target text and rewrites it grounded in evidence. The skill extracts each verifiable claim, runs a cheapest-first verification cascade, and emits a rewritten answer where every confirmed claim carries a footnote citation and every unconfirmed claim is explicitly hedged. When sources disagree, both are reported rather than one being silently chosen.
Actions
| # | Action | Role | Input |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | identify-claims | Extract verifiable factual claims from the text, classify each, drop opinion | target text |
| 02 | verify | Run the verification cascade per claim, produce a verdict and sources | claim list from 01 |
| 03 | report | Rewrite the text with footnote citations, hedge unverified, surface conflicts | verdict list from 02 |
Run 01 → 02 → 03; pass each ## Test before the next.
Before running an action, read its file in actions/, not only the table or assets.
Transversal rules
- Never alter the meaning of a claim while verifying it: verify what was stated, not a charitable reinterpretation.
- The verification cascade is cheapest-first and short-circuits: stop at the first tier that resolves a claim. See
references/verification-cascade.md. - A web lookup is the last resort, never the first. Reach it only when project memory and codebase inspection both fail to resolve a claim.
- Claim categories come from the locked set in
references/claim-categories.md. Opinion, preference, and trivially-known statements are not claims and are skipped. - When two sources disagree, report both with their origin, never silently pick one.
- An unverified claim is never deleted and never asserted as fact: it is kept and marked
(unverified - no source found). - Caching a verified fact is opt-in: propose it with a recommendation, never cache silently. The skill persists nothing; the mechanics live in action 03.
- The final report is reader-facing prose: the corrected text,
## Sources, and## Unverified claims, nothing else. Internal mechanics never appear in the output: no cascade or tier trace (Cascade:,tier 1/2/3,miss,resolved), no category labels, no raw verdict words. State conclusions, not the process. Action 03 holds the exhaustive forbidden list. - The report is rendered in plain prose and is never restyled by an active output mode. The skill's output format is fixed by action 03 alone.
References
references/claim-categories.md: locked taxonomy of verifiable claim categories with definition and example.references/verification-cascade.md: the three-tier cascade, short-circuit rule, web-cost guardrail.
Assets
assets/report-template.md: rewritten-answer skeleton with the## Sourcesfootnote block.