| name | evidence-brief |
| description | Produce a concise decision brief that presents the research question, strongest evidence, contrary evidence, confidence, implications, and unresolved gaps with citations. |
Evidence Brief
Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.
Procedure
- Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
- Establish the evidence baseline using research notes, source quality assessments, conflicting evidence, stakeholder decision, and constraints. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
- Lead with decision-relevant findings, cite at claim level, distinguish observations from inference, quantify uncertainty when possible, and recommend only evidence-supported next steps.
- Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
- Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
- Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.
Quality gate
A reader can audit the major conclusions without repeating the entire research process.
