Knowledge Gap Skill

Goal

Force agents to acknowledge uncertainty and research before acting. Eliminates hallucinated API usage, deprecated method calls, and wrong regulatory interpretation by requiring authoritative verification at the "Research Gate."

The Research Gate

The Research Gate is a mandatory checkpoint before using any:

• Library or package NOT currently in package.json / composer.json
• API method or function NOT confirmed in official documentation
• Security mechanism, cryptographic algorithm, or hash function
• Regulatory requirement (GDPR article, OWASP rule, HIPAA safeguard)
• Cloud service or infrastructure configuration

Steps

1. Detect the knowledge gap

   Ask yourself: "Can I cite an official source (Tier 1/2) for this?"