evidence-scout

$npx mdskill add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/evidence-scout

Scans for evidence supporting or opposing claims and returns structured results

  • Identifies specific claims needing external support or refutation.
  • Deploys web search and document retrieval services to find relevant evidence.
  • Assesses source reliability and relevance of found evidence, scoring its quality.
  • Provides a list of evidence items with their sources, content, and scores.

SKILL.md

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---
name: evidence-scout
description: Searches for external evidence supporting or opposing specific claims. Returns structured evidence with source assessment and relevance scoring.
execution: subagent
prompt: ./prompt.md
input: claims_to_evidence (string), stance (string), search_budget (string)
used-by: [multiagent-debate]
---

# Evidence Scout

Searches for external evidence supporting or opposing claims.

## Execution

Subagent — spawned via subagent-spawning/spawn-agent.

## Why Subagent

Evidence gathering requires web search and paper lookup in dedicated context. Isolated execution prevents search results from biasing ongoing debate reasoning.

## Input

- **claims_to_evidence**: Specific claims needing external evidence
- **stance**: Whether to search for supporting or opposing evidence (pro/con)
- **search_budget**: Number of searches allowed (2/5/10 based on campaign budget)

## Output

- **evidence_items**: List of evidence found (source, content, relevance score)
- **evidence_quality**: Assessment of each source's reliability
- **coverage**: Which claims have evidence vs. which remain unevidenced

## Budget

One unit = one evidence gathering pass (multiple searches within budget).

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