humanities-superpowers

Use when citations, quotations, page numbers, bibliography entries, or source-supported claims must be checked for existence, metadata accuracy, textual fidelity, and claim–source fit.

Use when a manuscript contains recurring concepts, translations, abbreviations, proper names, or near-synonyms whose meanings and forms must remain stable across the argument.

Use when a humanities researcher needs to transform verified sources into a structured scholarly conversation rather than a chronological list of summaries.

Use when a humanities researcher has a broad topic, intuition, corpus, or problem but does not yet have a precise, contestable, and researchable question.

Use when a humanities argument depends on a concept whose history, competing definitions, translations, or boundaries must be reconstructed before the concept can support new claims.

Use when an interpretation must be grounded in specific textual, visual, rhetorical, formal, interface, archival, performative, or material features rather than thematic summary or theoretical labeling.

Use when a research question, scope boundary, and source base exist but the manuscript still needs a defensible sequence of claims, warrants, evidence, objections, and section functions.

Use when authors must interpret real reviewer comments, decide how to revise a humanities manuscript, and produce a transparent point-by-point response grounded in actual changes.

Use when a humanities manuscript needs an evidence-based, whole-document review of research question, scope, concepts, argument, interpretation, citations, structure, and contribution.

Use when a research question is promising but its corpus, period, comparison, concepts, or claim size remain too broad or unstable for a defensible humanities argument.

Use when a thesis, concept, interpretation, or manuscript needs disciplined adversarial testing against counterexamples, rival explanations, category errors, scale violations, false novelty, and unresolved ethical risks.

Use when a researcher has an approved argument map, source-grounded notes, interpretations, and draft passages that need organization and logical repair without delegating the original scholarly contribution to the agent.

Use when an agent must diagnose research state, select and sequence Humanities Superpowers skills, handle failed gates, and preserve a resumable humanities research workflow.

Use when a humanities manuscript is about to be submitted or resubmitted and requires a final evidence-based gate covering argument, citations, terminology, files, author information, venue requirements, and disclosure.