cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/evidence-synthesis
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Turn a pile of sources into a defensible claim. Use for "what does the literature actually say?", conflicting studies or benchmarks, "is this result trustworthy?", arguments that need claim-evidence-warrant structure, qualitative data needing coding, or a theory with no catalog of its own contradicting evidence.
Install
npx vskill@latest install cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/evidence-synthesisSKILL.md
Evidence Synthesis
Problem shape: multiple sources (papers, benchmarks, interviews, texts) must be combined into one graded conclusion — and the current draft cherry-picks, skips heterogeneity, or has no explicit warrant connecting evidence to claim.
Relevant geniuses
| Agent | Use when | |
|---|---|---|
| cochrane | studies must be systematically found, graded, and pooled; publication bias suspected; effect sizes needed, not vote-counting | |
| toulmin | an argument needs explicit claim-evidence-warrant structure with qualifiers and rebuttals; standards differ by field | |
| feynman | a result is suspiciously clean; a citation is used without the ability to rederive it; integrity audit before publishing | |
| darwin | evidence accumulates over a long horizon; the theory needs a difficulty book of its own contradictions; hardest case first | |
| laplace | evidence must update a belief quantitatively — priors, likelihoods, calibration | |
| gadamer | sources must be interpreted, not just counted — pre-understandings audited, the charitable reading found first | |
| strauss | qualitative data (interviews, tickets, reviews) needs open/axial coding until saturation, not anecdote-picking | |
| geertz | the evidence is behavior in context — thick description and emic vs etic separation before conclusions |
Invocation
- Pick the best-fit agent above. If two or more fit, run
tools/genius-invoker.sh route "<problem>" and take the top ranked match.
- Load it:
tools/genius-invoker.sh invoke <agent> "<problem>", then read
agents/genius/<agent>.md in full.
- Apply the agent's
<workflow>step by step and answer in its
<output-format>. Every synthesized claim carries its evidence grade and its strongest known counter-evidence (coding-standards §8: no source, no claim).
- Typical chain: cochrane grades the corpus → toulmin structures the argument
→ feynman audits the integrity. Run via tools/genius-invoker.sh compose cochrane toulmin -- "<problem>".
- If no shape above matches, use a built-in agent with the closest
GENIUS:pattern fromrules/agent-routes.jsoninstead.
Refuse when
- The conclusion is fixed in advance and only supporting sources are wanted.
- Primary sources are unavailable and only summaries-of-summaries exist —
say "I don't know" rather than synthesize hearsay.
Security
- Security scanPassed, 100 of 100Pattern checks on the skill's files.
- Model reviewNot runA model review is scheduled for the next rescan.
Quality evaluation
- Task evaluationNot runNo evaluation yet. Run one in Skill Studio.
Source
- SKILL.md in the repositoryCheckingskills/evidence-synthesis/SKILL.md
Popularity
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- 3
- 7-day trend score
- 10
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