Evidence Brief

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name: evidence-brief
description: Produce a concise decision brief that presents the research question, strongest evidence, contrary evidence, confidence, implications, and unresolved gaps with citations.
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# Evidence Brief

Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.

## Procedure
1. Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
2. Establish the evidence baseline using research notes, source quality assessments, conflicting evidence, stakeholder decision, and constraints. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
3. Lead with decision-relevant findings, cite at claim level, distinguish observations from inference, quantify uncertainty when possible, and recommend only evidence-supported next steps.
4. Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
5. Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
6. Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.

## Quality gate
A reader can audit the major conclusions without repeating the entire research process.