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        "description": "Deep research A traffic-light research method with three tiers of quality checks. Every task runs the RED mandatory elements. Higher-stakes work adds YELLOW conditional checks. Urgent, high-risk decisions trigger GREEN elements. The output is a one-page executive summary on top of fully cited research. How it works - Break the question into atomic sub-questions - List every h",
        "purpose": "Deep research A traffic-light research method with three tiers of quality checks. Every task runs the RED mandatory elements. Higher-stakes work adds YELLOW conditional checks. Urgent, high-risk decisions trigger GREEN elements. The output is a one-page executive summary on top of fully cited research. How it works - Break the question into atomic sub-questions - List every h",
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        "skill_md": "# Deep Research\n\nTraffic-light research system with 37 quality elements across three tiers. Every research task gets 14 mandatory RED elements. Higher-stakes work adds 15 conditional YELLOW elements. Life-safety and major decisions trigger 8 GREEN elements.\n\n**When to use this**\nAny research task where the answer matters — product decisions, market analysis, competitive intelligence, investment research, fact verification. If you are about to make a decision based on what you found, use this.\n\n**The process**\n\n1. **Decompose** the question into atomic sub-questions. Rank by importance. Research each independently.\n2. **Generate hypotheses** before researching. List all plausible explanations. Rate evidence against each, not just your favourite.\n3. **Map stakeholders.** Who benefits? Who loses? Who funds? Who is incentivised to mislead?\n4. **Triangulate.** Three independent sources with different biases per key claim. If sources that disagree on everything else agree on THIS, it is probably true.\n5. **Check freshness.** AI news: 48 hours. Academic papers: 2 years. Market data: 30 days. Historical facts: no expiry but verify originals.\n6. **Contrarian search.** Spend 20% of your time finding evidence AGAINST your emerging conclusion. If you cannot find any, you have not looked hard enough.\n7. **Branch.** When a search leads somewhere unexpected, follow that thread. Maintain parallel paths. Merge results. Prune dead ends.\n8. **Minimum 10 cycles** of search-refine before declaring research complete. Detect convergence (when new results stop adding new information) and stop.\n\n**Output format**\n- Executive summary: 1 page, easy to scan, bold key words, bullet points, confidence level, what is still unknown\n- Full research underneath: as long as needed, source citations throughout, insight stacking (each section builds on the previous, no circling)\n\n**Pre-prepared sub-agents**\n\n**1. Research agent** — searches sources, gathers facts, writes findings with provenance\n**2. Hypothesis analyst** — lists all plausible explanations, rates evidence against each using competing-hypotheses methodology\n**3. Synthesis agent** — triangulates across sources, identifies convergence, writes the executive summary\n\n**Tips**\n- The first hypothesis that feels right is usually the most biased. Always generate alternatives before researching.\n- \"Statistically significant\" with tiny effect size is meaningless. Always ask \"how much?\" not just \"is there an effect?\"\n- An unverified URL claim is a false claim. Always check that links resolve before presenting them.\n\n**Tags:** Analysis & research, Education",
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                "notes": "Read in full: research quality methodology (triangulation, contrarian search, convergence). Pure method; no network writes, secrets, or cost.",
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                "notes": "Reviewed full markdown: pure research methodology (decompose, hypothesize, triangulate, contrarian search). No exfiltration, no secrets, no network/download calls, no prompt-injection or hidden directives, no costly actions.",
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