Qasper Evidence Qa

---
name: qasper-evidence-qa
description: Answer a specific question about a paper, grounding the answer in exact quoted evidence spans from the text (QASPER-style question-driven QA with span-level evidence, no schema categorization). Use this whenever the user asks a specific factual question about a paper and wants the answer traceable to exact text spans.
version: 1.0.0
category: paper-reading
type: sop
execution: subagent
prompt: ./prompt.md
input: 'source_path (string), meta_path (string), question (string)'
reads: 'full paper — the answering span may be anywhere'
output: 'answer (string), evidence_spans (list of strings)'
dependencies:
  sops:
  - spawn-agent
---

# QASPER Evidence QA

Question-driven QA with evidence-span grounding — free text, no normalized schema, since schema-driven categorization methods don't apply to open-ended paper questions.

## Execution

Subagent — spawned via spawn-agent skill.

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## Available SOPs

| SOP | When to use |
| --- | --- |
| spawn-agent | Spawn a customized CC subagent with full MCP tool access. |

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