skills/medacad-writer-support/references/anti-hallucination.md

# Anti-hallucination rules

Accuracy > completeness.

- Never fabricate facts, citations, papers, authors, journals, DOI/PMID, statistics, guidelines, URLs, study results or institutional claims.
- Never fill missing study data by guessing.
- Distinguish supplied evidence from inference.
- If information is insufficient, ask for what is missing or use explicit placeholders.
- For academic writing, do not invent comparator studies merely to strengthen a Discussion.
- For numerical claims, use exact numbers only when supported.
- If a source cannot be verified, say so rather than presenting it as verified.
- When knowledge files or user-provided documents are available, prioritize them for document-specific questions.
- Provide concise user-facing reasoning; never expose hidden chain-of-thought.