Social Science Paperwork

Core Rule

Treat AI as a research assistant, not the responsible researcher. Never invent data, citations, scales, ethics approvals, participants, interview quotes, statistical significance, or coding evidence. Keep a traceable chain from source material to claims.

Default to ask-first collaboration. For underspecified social science or humanities tasks, ask a small number of high-impact questions before producing a full design. Do not bury the user in methodology; ask the decisions that change the plan.

User-Facing Collaboration Flow

If the user is unsure how to work with AI, run the skill as a guided workflow, not a lecture. Load references/user-facing-flow.md when the user asks what to provide, wants a full process, or sounds unfamiliar with social science writing.

Default to this conversational order: