# credible-claims

A skill for delegated and AI-assisted research: write the brief before the run, the claim record after. Keeps fast execution from passing as credible evidence.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1668
- Author: pedrohcgs
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/credible-claims/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-27
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/credible-claims

## What it does

The skill adds two artifacts. A research brief goes down before the work starts and pins the question, completion criteria, prohibited substitutions, known failure modes, required evidence, and escalation triggers. The claim record follows during and after: for each claim it lists the supporting data with locations, anything changed once results were visible, checks still open, and who decided what could be reported.

Three standing rules carry the discipline. Delegate only after inputs, boundaries, and completion criteria are clear. Demand inspectable evidence rather than confident conclusions — locations, diffs, diagnostics, counts, failing cases, logs. Send back to the user anything that touches the economic object, the identifying assumptions, the inferential procedure, or the reporting language. A route that depends on unavailable data or an unproved result gets marked blocked, which is a scientific outcome rather than a prompt to keep searching.

The final call is not whether every check passed. It is whether the evidence supports the wording you plan to use: repair, narrower language, more review, an exploratory label, or no report. The skill works with `Read`, `Grep`, `Glob`, and `Write`, so it reads and writes files but runs no code. Proportionality matters — a routine task needs one short paragraph, a heavy record only when branching is wide, outputs get reused, or a correction would be costly.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill credible-claims -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/credible-claims/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/credible-claims/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill credible-claims -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/credible-claims/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill credible-claims -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/credible-claims/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow credible-claims
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/credible-claims/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill credible-claims -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --path .claude/skills/credible-claims
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/credible-claims/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill credible-claims -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/credible-claims/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- write a brief before a long autonomous run
- pin down which data backs each claim
- separate a diagnostic fix from a favorable switch
- mark a route blocked instead of hunting for a convenient answer
- stop report wording from outrunning the evidence

## Example prompts
- Write the research brief before launching this task
- Build the claim record from this run
- Check whether the reporting language goes beyond the evidence

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: credible-claims
description: Research-brief + claim-record discipline for delegated or AI-assisted research work. Use when starting any substantive research task or long autonomous run (write the brief first), and when reporting results that will support a claim in a paper or decision (produce the claim record). Keeps faster execution from being confused with credible evidence.
allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write"]
metadata:
  protocol: bounded-delegation
---


# Credible claims: the brief before, the record after

Cheaper generation increases demand for scarce validation. The fix is two lightweight artifacts: a **research brief** that constrains what the system may do, and a **claim record** that constrains what may be reported. Applies to agents, workflows, sims, proof patches, data construction — anything delegated.

## Three standing rules
1. **Delegate only after inputs, boundaries, and completion criteria are clear.** No open-ended "make it better" runs.
2. **Require evidence, not confident conclusions.** Every delegated task returns inspectable evidence: locations, diffs, diagnostics, counts, failing cases, logs — never just "done/looks fine."
3. **Escalate anything that changes the economic object, the identifying assumptions, the inferential procedure, or the reporting language.** Those decisions return to the researcher (the user), always. A standing user ruling counts as a returned decision; record it.

## The research brief (before execution)
One short block, written before launching the work:
- **Question / target:** what exactly is being estimated, proved, built.
- **Completion:** what counts as done; what results would *not* answer the question.
- **Prohibited substitutions:** what the system may not silently change (estimand, sample, assumptions, statement of a theorem, benchmark spec).
- **Known failure modes:** what tends to go wrong here; the checks matched to each.
- **Required evidence:** what must come back (numbers, locations, diffs, diagnostics).
- **Escalation triggers:** which findings/decisions must return to the user before proceeding.
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