Verified Infographic Generator

Version: 1.0

Overview

This skill produces high-quality infographic posters where fact-verification is done by Claude in text and the text-to-image engine is invoked only in the final rendering step, after all content has been locked and approved.

It exists because one-shot text-to-image generation of fact-based infographics has a very high fabrication rate. In one observed session generating a poster about biophilic design, 8 of 10 numeric claims (80%) were unsupported by the cited sources, and 2 of 5 citations were fictional or misattributed. Once incorrect text is baked into pixels, it cannot be corrected without regenerating, and readers have no way to audit where the numbers came from.

Core Principles

1. Separate facts from pixels. Never let the image model choose which numbers to display.
2. Evidence before composition. No visual layout work begins until every claim has a verified source.
3. Bake nothing unverified. Any unverified claim blocks the pipeline, is downgraded to qualitative language, or is replaced.
4. Preserve an audit trail. Every number and citation in the final image must be traceable to a specific source URL and quoted passage in a sidecar file.
5. Break symmetry bias. Two-column "versus" layouts must explicitly allow asymmetric content — missing data on one side is a first-class output, not something to fabricate around.

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