i2r-search-mode

Role in the pipeline

i2r-evidence-researcher leans on this skill to produce 02b-evidence.json (schema: schemas/02b-evidence.schema.json). Every evidence card must carry a verifiable source_ref — that is what the i2r-citation-gate hook actually enforces (it runs i2r.py evidence.validate). Linking a downstream requirement back to an EV-NNN card is author discipline, not gate-enforced: the gate does not verify requirement-level evidence_ref.

Hard boundary (load-bearing)

Search evidence informs — it never decides scope and never overrides user intent. The only things evidence is allowed to touch: