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backing-claims

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Back factual and empirical claims with a small two-sided literature review — searches for literature that supports AND refutes/qualifies the claim (COUNTER) — verify sources in full text, and record provenance (how found, why picked, quote, counter-search outcome). Format-independent: papers, reports, memos, evidence logs, survey answers — any output resting on a factual claim, not just TeX. Use proactively when: (1) adding OR reusing a citation, page number, or attribution for a factual/empirical claim (inherited citations are NOT pre-verified), (2) attributing a claim to a source ("X found that…"), (3) the user asks to find a reference or check a citation — or wants an answer or decision backed by evidence, research, or literature, (4) writing related-work, background, or claims sections, (5) mentions of scholar, BibTeX, DOI, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, or a literature search, (6) writing or reviewing ADVICE — rules, conventions, best practices, "do X because Y" — or a statement that a text "makes no claims needing a search": advice asserts a benefit, and that benefit is an empirical claim to audit even when nobody planned to cite anything. (7) DELEGATING literature research to a subagent or teammate — the subagent prompt must tell it to load this skill, run every search under a named scholar session, and document alphaXiv/WebSearch complements in the appendix (see "Delegating research to subagents"). Trigger BEFORE citing; this skill owns finding/verifying/justifying the reference (markup: writing-crypto/latex-writing).