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deep-research

Skill4 starsChanged 4 months agoMITView on GitHub

High-stakes research with Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, disconfirmation testing, evidence matrices, and sensitivity checks (~400k token budget) — use when the user needs to be SURE, not just well-informed. Trigger phrases include "deep research", "deeply investigate", "validate that X", "prove/disprove", "we're making a big decision", "correctness is critical", "I need to trust this answer", or "actively try to disprove this". Worth the extra cost when — the wrong answer has real consequences (architecture commitment, vendor choice, security claim, compliance question, public-facing claim), the user has already seen shallow answers and doesn't trust them, they explicitly ask for rigor or disconfirmation, or they're defending a position to stakeholders. Do NOT use for exploratory "what's out there" questions (use research), routine library comparisons where a single good answer suffices (use research), or quick factual lookups. This is the bias-catching, evidence-calibrating tier — overkill for casual exploration but essential when you can't afford to be wrong.

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2 rules. 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.

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    Start the workflow via the devkit engine:

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  2. Very specific:

    Use the devkit_start tool with workflow: "deep-research" and input: "{input}".

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“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 178 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

Deep Research

ACH-enhanced deterministic research: clarify → perspectives → decompose → parallel search → extract claims → hypotheses → disconfirm → evidence matrix (with sensitivity check) → self-critique → synthesize.

Costs more tokens (~400k budget) but produces higher-confidence results by actively trying to disprove answers.

Invoke

Start the workflow via the devkit engine:

Use the devkit_start tool with workflow: "deep-research" and input: "{input}".

Then follow each step the engine returns. Call devkit_advance after completing each step. The engine controls step order, gates, and loops. Do NOT skip steps.

Rules

  • Perspectives first — ground queries in real viewpoints, not LLM brainstorming
  • Disconfirm > confirm — try to KILL hypotheses, not prove them
  • Summarize immediately — never carry raw fetched content forward
  • Evidence matrix is mandatory — no skipping the structured comparison
  • Sensitivity check is mandatory — know how fragile your conclusion is
  • Self-critique before output — catch your own biases
  • Cite everything — every claim links to its source
  • Confidence calibration — HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW based on evidence robustness, not gut feel
  • Be honest about uncertainty — "I don't know" with good reasoning beats a confident wrong answer

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