Decides what to do with a claim that verification could not confirm — drop it, refuse it in plain words, escalate it as a named open question, or report the disagreement between conflicting sources — instead of shipping a hedged guess. Use when verification…
Appraises a systematic review or meta-analysis with AMSTAR 2 (AMSTAR-2; Shea et al., BMJ 2017): answers the 16 checklist items from the review's report, flags flaws in the seven critical domains and derives the overall confidence rating — High, Moderate, Low…
Ranks rival explanations of a question by which one the evidence contradicts least (Heuer's Analysis of Competing Hypotheses — ACH — CIA), then names the single piece of evidence the ranking hinges on. Use when a question has two or more plausible…
Dissects one patent's claim set the way an examiner reads it — independent versus dependent claims, the transitional phrase that fixes the scope (comprising = open, consisting of = closed), the elements of claim 1, the classification codes, and prior-art…
Turns a release note or changelog into a structured record — version and prior version, the SemVer bump, breaking changes and deprecations quoted verbatim, bug-fix count, CVE/GHSA advisories — and rates how much the release should worry a consumer. Use when a…
Places one discontinuous technology on the five phases of Gartner's Hype Cycle — Innovation Trigger, Peak of Inflated Expectations, Trough of Disillusionment, Slope of Enlightenment, Plateau of Productivity — by counting sourced indicators, then reports the…
Reads a scholarly result set for one research area — publication S-curve phase, citation velocity and acceleration, author and institution concentration — and reports a research-front or maturing verdict with the observation that would flip it. Use when asked…
Grades a randomised trial with Cochrane RoB 2 — the five domains of randomization process, deviations from intended interventions, missing outcome data, measurement of the outcome, and selection of the reported result — and emits per-domain and overall…