Source Quality Assessment

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name: source-quality-assessment
description: Assess a source for authority, proximity, methodology, incentives, currency, completeness, reproducibility, and fit to the specific claim.
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# Source Quality Assessment

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 source metadata, publication/revision date, methodology, citations, author/institution, and competing sources. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
3. Classify source type, trace primary origin, inspect method/sample where relevant, check dates and conflicts, and assign claim-level confidence rather than domain-level prestige.
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
Each material claim is supported by a source appropriate to that claim and limitations are visible.