skills/vidiq-shorts-inspiration/references/discovery-evidence.md

# Judge discovery evidence

Use this guidance when evaluating discovered examples, including supplied search results.

For recurring discovery-pattern claims, require three relevant examples from independent
channels/creators. This is a triage minimum, not statistical validation. With fewer, use at most
one correction within scope, then label insufficient evidence. A single reference can
still support a design choice or tentative idea; it cannot establish a recurring pattern.

Match the requested audience and mechanism, including transferable viewer motivation across
niches. Exclude one-off news, drama, and launch spikes from reusable-pattern evidence.
If changed inputs return identical lists, check the live schema and use the bounded correction
as a control before claiming filters worked. Do not expand a supplied-evidence-only request.