they-said-whaaa

name	they-said-whaaa
description	Credibility and consistency tracker for public figures. Ingests YouTube transcripts and news articles, extracts claims, detects contradictions, and builds position timelines.

They Said Whaaa?

Use this skill to track public statements by politicians and other public figures, detect contradictions, and build position timelines across topics.

When to use: "track what [figure] said about", "ingest YouTube video", "ingest news article", "extract claims from", "find contradictions", "build timeline", "compare figures on topic", "add politician", "add topic"

Prerequisites

• TypeDB running (install alhazen-core first and run /alhazen-core:init)
• uv installed
• YouTube transcripts: uv add youtube-transcript-api (optional)

Path note: Replace <skill-path> below with your installation directory (e.g. ~/.claude/plugins/cache/they-said-whaaa/ when installed as a plugin).

Quick Start

uv run --project <skill-path> python <skill-path>/they_said_whaaa.py add-figure \
    --name "Jane Senator" --role senator --party Democrat --country US

uv run --project <skill-path> python <skill-path>/they_said_whaaa.py ingest-article \
    --url "https://example.com/article" --figure-id tsw-figure-...

uv run --project <skill-path> python <skill-path>/they_said_whaaa.py list-figures

Sensemaking Pattern

1. Ingest transcript or article → get artifact ID
2. show-source --id <artifact_id> → read the content
3. add-statement for each significant utterance
4. add-claim for each distinct factual/positional claim within a statement
5. flag-contradiction when two claims conflict

Before executing any commands, read USAGE.md in this directory.