Backing Claims with Verified References

Back every claim with scientific literature you have read and verified, and record how you got there. A citation is a load-bearing claim: it asserts that a specific source supports a specific statement. This skill makes that assertion auditable.

The protocol is format-independent: it applies wherever a claim rests on a source — a paper, a report or memo, an evidence log, a survey or questionnaire answer, a recommendation given in conversation. The find → verify → record core is always the same; only the recording surface differs (BibTeX provenance blocks for papers, the deliverable's own evidence log or notes otherwise), and the paper-appendix section at the end applies only when the output is a paper.