Update to Research & Writing Copilot

{
  "description": "Combine notes, verified claims and multiple sources into a coherent synthesis without cherry-picking or overstating certainty.",
  "included_files": [],
  "name": "synthesize-evidence",
  "skill_md_contents": "---\nname: synthesize-evidence\ndescription: Combine notes, verified claims and multiple sources into a coherent synthesis without cherry-picking or overstating certainty.\n---\n\n# Synthesize Evidence\n\n**Shared standards.** Preserve the user's purpose and existing material; never fabricate evidence, URLs, quotations, citations, first-person experiences, interviews, tool runs or publication. Distinguish sourced observations from independent reproduction and analysis. Use actual host research/files/code tools when available; disclose unavailable verification. For current facts, verify fresh authoritative sources. Ask only when an essential constraint prevents useful work.\n\n## Procedure\n1. Normalize source claims by time, version, setting and denominator. Identify complementary and contradictory findings.\n2. Group material by explanatory themes, causal mechanisms and decision implications—not one heading per source.\n3. For each theme distinguish established fact, reported observation, inference, and opinion. Handle missing or weak evidence explicitly.\n4. Avoid fabricated precision, vote counting sources, or numeric scoring without defensible methodology.\n5. Produce a coherent synthesis with traceable citations; retain relevant minority explanations where evidence warrants them.\n## Deliver\nShort thesis, structured findings, uncertainty/trade-offs and conclusion that matches the evidence. Use the evidence ledger when the claims are consequential.\n\n## Related references\n- Read `../../references/research-method.md` when it materially informs this task.\n- Read `../../references/evidence-policy.md` when it materially informs this task.\n- Read `../../references/report-structure.md` when it materially informs this task.\n"
}