Support With Evidence

Take a body of text — an argument, a set of claims, a thesis, bullet points — and extract the falsifiable ideas from it. Then go out and find real evidence for or against each one. The goal is not confirmation bias — it's an honest evidence audit. If the evidence supports the idea, you'll see it. If the evidence contradicts the idea, you'll see that too.

When to Use

• User has claims, predictions, or assertions and wants to know what evidence exists
• User asks "is this true?" or "can you find evidence for this?" or "support this with evidence"
• User wants to fact-check or ground-truth a set of ideas before publishing or acting
• User has a thesis and wants to know which parts are empirically supported and which are speculation

Do NOT use for: stress-testing a thesis for logical weaknesses (use stress-test), evaluating prompts (use think-critically), or surfacing insights from data (use surface-insight).

The Honesty Rule

This skill's job is to find evidence — not to confirm what the user hopes is true. The single most important rule: