content-research-and-sourcing
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The research-and-sourcing craft — verify the substance of a piece before it publishes: trace stats to primary sources, kill zombie stats, catch AI-hallucinated citations, and attribute properly on social. Use when someone has a stat-heavy draft to make publish-ready, wants to check if a viral statistic is real, asks how to cite sources, used AI research output, or is making health/finance claims. Uses the FACTS framework. Reads brand-profile + the piece's format skill first. AI-supplied citations are guilty until verified; a working link is not verification; aggregators are leads, not the source; where none exists, reframe as owned observation or commission data. The agent verifies where it has search; the human clicks links where it doesn't; verification happens before scheduling; WoopSocial publishes. Never invents studies or reuses retracted stats. Distinct from idea-generation, data-and-original-research, quote-cards, and infographic-and-data-viz.
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npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill content-research-and-sourcing -a claude-code
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