Method skill
Search
How to search for evidence on a claim or question so that what the search did not find can be weighed: searching across framings and kinds of source, recording how the search was done, and reading absence in proportion to the search.
Loaded: on demand, by any role it addresses; it claims no domain. Source: skills/search/SKILL.md.
For every administrator
Search across framings and kinds of source. Queries written from one framing tend to stay in its vocabulary, and following each result to the next goes deeper into one region rather than wider; what comes back can look complete because it is coherent. Before searching, ask what evidence would bear on the claim and where it would appear: which fields would study it and under what names, which kinds of source would carry it, and how someone outside the claim's framing would pose it. Search those places, in proportion to the claim's importance (§19).
Record how the search was done. Say what you looked for, where, and what you left unsearched, so a later reader can see what the search could and could not have found.
Read absence in proportion to the search. Not finding something is evidence it does not exist to the degree that the search would have found it if it did. A careful search of the places it would appear makes an absence weigh; a search that never reached them leaves it saying little. Say which it was.
Who receives which sections
Generated from the loader’s composition table (ROLE_VIEW in src/llm/prompts/skills.ts). A role receives the listed sections in document order; the solver is an instrument rather than an administrator and receives no constitution.
| Role | Sections received |
|---|---|
| Claim Steward | For every administrator; For the Claim Steward; For the Curator; For the Matcher; For the Extractor |
| Audit Agent | For every administrator; For the Claim Steward; For the Grantmaker; For the Contribution Reviewer and the Dispute Arbitrator; For the Audit Agent; For the Curator; For the Matcher; For the Extractor; Standards for judging |
| Grantmaker | For every administrator; For the Grantmaker |
| Lookout | For every administrator |
| Correspondent | For every administrator |
| Program Officer | For every administrator |
| Contribution Reviewer | For every administrator; For the Contribution Reviewer and the Dispute Arbitrator |
| Dispute Arbitrator | For every administrator; For the Contribution Reviewer and the Dispute Arbitrator |
| Curator | For every administrator; For the Curator; For the Matcher |
| Matcher | For the Matcher |
| Extractor | For the Extractor |
| Researcher | For every administrator; For the researcher |
| Consistency Checker | For every administrator; Standards for judging |
What each role receives
The exact view each role receives when it loads this skill with load_skill (the Extractor’s is spliced into its prompt): the heading the agent can cite, one sentence of standing, and the role’s sections verbatim.
Claim Steward · 1 section · 1,206 characters
# Method skill: Search (version 2) This skill says how the constitution and your role apply to one kind of work. It never outranks either. ## For every administrator **Search across framings and kinds of source.** Queries written from one framing tend to stay in its vocabulary, and following each result to the next goes deeper into one region rather than wider; what comes back can look complete because it is coherent. Before searching, ask what evidence would bear on the claim and where it would appear: which fields would study it and under what names, which kinds of source would carry it, and how someone outside the claim's framing would pose it. Search those places, in proportion to the claim's importance (§19). **Record how the search was done.** Say what you looked for, where, and what you left unsearched, so a later reader can see what the search could and could not have found. **Read absence in proportion to the search.** Not finding something is evidence it does not exist to the degree that the search would have found it if it did. A careful search of the places it would appear makes an absence weigh; a search that never reached them leaves it saying little. Say which it was.
Audit Agent · 1 section · 1,206 characters
# Method skill: Search (version 2) This skill says how the constitution and your role apply to one kind of work. It never outranks either. ## For every administrator **Search across framings and kinds of source.** Queries written from one framing tend to stay in its vocabulary, and following each result to the next goes deeper into one region rather than wider; what comes back can look complete because it is coherent. Before searching, ask what evidence would bear on the claim and where it would appear: which fields would study it and under what names, which kinds of source would carry it, and how someone outside the claim's framing would pose it. Search those places, in proportion to the claim's importance (§19). **Record how the search was done.** Say what you looked for, where, and what you left unsearched, so a later reader can see what the search could and could not have found. **Read absence in proportion to the search.** Not finding something is evidence it does not exist to the degree that the search would have found it if it did. A careful search of the places it would appear makes an absence weigh; a search that never reached them leaves it saying little. Say which it was.
Grantmaker · 1 section · 1,206 characters
# Method skill: Search (version 2) This skill says how the constitution and your role apply to one kind of work. It never outranks either. ## For every administrator **Search across framings and kinds of source.** Queries written from one framing tend to stay in its vocabulary, and following each result to the next goes deeper into one region rather than wider; what comes back can look complete because it is coherent. Before searching, ask what evidence would bear on the claim and where it would appear: which fields would study it and under what names, which kinds of source would carry it, and how someone outside the claim's framing would pose it. Search those places, in proportion to the claim's importance (§19). **Record how the search was done.** Say what you looked for, where, and what you left unsearched, so a later reader can see what the search could and could not have found. **Read absence in proportion to the search.** Not finding something is evidence it does not exist to the degree that the search would have found it if it did. A careful search of the places it would appear makes an absence weigh; a search that never reached them leaves it saying little. Say which it was.
Lookout · 1 section · 1,206 characters
# Method skill: Search (version 2) This skill says how the constitution and your role apply to one kind of work. It never outranks either. ## For every administrator **Search across framings and kinds of source.** Queries written from one framing tend to stay in its vocabulary, and following each result to the next goes deeper into one region rather than wider; what comes back can look complete because it is coherent. Before searching, ask what evidence would bear on the claim and where it would appear: which fields would study it and under what names, which kinds of source would carry it, and how someone outside the claim's framing would pose it. Search those places, in proportion to the claim's importance (§19). **Record how the search was done.** Say what you looked for, where, and what you left unsearched, so a later reader can see what the search could and could not have found. **Read absence in proportion to the search.** Not finding something is evidence it does not exist to the degree that the search would have found it if it did. A careful search of the places it would appear makes an absence weigh; a search that never reached them leaves it saying little. Say which it was.
Correspondent · 1 section · 1,206 characters
# Method skill: Search (version 2) This skill says how the constitution and your role apply to one kind of work. It never outranks either. ## For every administrator **Search across framings and kinds of source.** Queries written from one framing tend to stay in its vocabulary, and following each result to the next goes deeper into one region rather than wider; what comes back can look complete because it is coherent. Before searching, ask what evidence would bear on the claim and where it would appear: which fields would study it and under what names, which kinds of source would carry it, and how someone outside the claim's framing would pose it. Search those places, in proportion to the claim's importance (§19). **Record how the search was done.** Say what you looked for, where, and what you left unsearched, so a later reader can see what the search could and could not have found. **Read absence in proportion to the search.** Not finding something is evidence it does not exist to the degree that the search would have found it if it did. A careful search of the places it would appear makes an absence weigh; a search that never reached them leaves it saying little. Say which it was.
Program Officer · 1 section · 1,206 characters
# Method skill: Search (version 2) This skill says how the constitution and your role apply to one kind of work. It never outranks either. ## For every administrator **Search across framings and kinds of source.** Queries written from one framing tend to stay in its vocabulary, and following each result to the next goes deeper into one region rather than wider; what comes back can look complete because it is coherent. Before searching, ask what evidence would bear on the claim and where it would appear: which fields would study it and under what names, which kinds of source would carry it, and how someone outside the claim's framing would pose it. Search those places, in proportion to the claim's importance (§19). **Record how the search was done.** Say what you looked for, where, and what you left unsearched, so a later reader can see what the search could and could not have found. **Read absence in proportion to the search.** Not finding something is evidence it does not exist to the degree that the search would have found it if it did. A careful search of the places it would appear makes an absence weigh; a search that never reached them leaves it saying little. Say which it was.
Contribution Reviewer · 1 section · 1,206 characters
# Method skill: Search (version 2) This skill says how the constitution and your role apply to one kind of work. It never outranks either. ## For every administrator **Search across framings and kinds of source.** Queries written from one framing tend to stay in its vocabulary, and following each result to the next goes deeper into one region rather than wider; what comes back can look complete because it is coherent. Before searching, ask what evidence would bear on the claim and where it would appear: which fields would study it and under what names, which kinds of source would carry it, and how someone outside the claim's framing would pose it. Search those places, in proportion to the claim's importance (§19). **Record how the search was done.** Say what you looked for, where, and what you left unsearched, so a later reader can see what the search could and could not have found. **Read absence in proportion to the search.** Not finding something is evidence it does not exist to the degree that the search would have found it if it did. A careful search of the places it would appear makes an absence weigh; a search that never reached them leaves it saying little. Say which it was.
Dispute Arbitrator · 1 section · 1,206 characters
# Method skill: Search (version 2) This skill says how the constitution and your role apply to one kind of work. It never outranks either. ## For every administrator **Search across framings and kinds of source.** Queries written from one framing tend to stay in its vocabulary, and following each result to the next goes deeper into one region rather than wider; what comes back can look complete because it is coherent. Before searching, ask what evidence would bear on the claim and where it would appear: which fields would study it and under what names, which kinds of source would carry it, and how someone outside the claim's framing would pose it. Search those places, in proportion to the claim's importance (§19). **Record how the search was done.** Say what you looked for, where, and what you left unsearched, so a later reader can see what the search could and could not have found. **Read absence in proportion to the search.** Not finding something is evidence it does not exist to the degree that the search would have found it if it did. A careful search of the places it would appear makes an absence weigh; a search that never reached them leaves it saying little. Say which it was.
Curator · 1 section · 1,206 characters
# Method skill: Search (version 2) This skill says how the constitution and your role apply to one kind of work. It never outranks either. ## For every administrator **Search across framings and kinds of source.** Queries written from one framing tend to stay in its vocabulary, and following each result to the next goes deeper into one region rather than wider; what comes back can look complete because it is coherent. Before searching, ask what evidence would bear on the claim and where it would appear: which fields would study it and under what names, which kinds of source would carry it, and how someone outside the claim's framing would pose it. Search those places, in proportion to the claim's importance (§19). **Record how the search was done.** Say what you looked for, where, and what you left unsearched, so a later reader can see what the search could and could not have found. **Read absence in proportion to the search.** Not finding something is evidence it does not exist to the degree that the search would have found it if it did. A careful search of the places it would appear makes an absence weigh; a search that never reached them leaves it saying little. Say which it was.
Matcher · no sections · 141 characters
# Method skill: Search (version 2) This skill says how the constitution and your role apply to one kind of work. It never outranks either.
Extractor · no sections · 141 characters
# Method skill: Search (version 2) This skill says how the constitution and your role apply to one kind of work. It never outranks either.
Researcher · 1 section · 1,206 characters
# Method skill: Search (version 2) This skill says how the constitution and your role apply to one kind of work. It never outranks either. ## For every administrator **Search across framings and kinds of source.** Queries written from one framing tend to stay in its vocabulary, and following each result to the next goes deeper into one region rather than wider; what comes back can look complete because it is coherent. Before searching, ask what evidence would bear on the claim and where it would appear: which fields would study it and under what names, which kinds of source would carry it, and how someone outside the claim's framing would pose it. Search those places, in proportion to the claim's importance (§19). **Record how the search was done.** Say what you looked for, where, and what you left unsearched, so a later reader can see what the search could and could not have found. **Read absence in proportion to the search.** Not finding something is evidence it does not exist to the degree that the search would have found it if it did. A careful search of the places it would appear makes an absence weigh; a search that never reached them leaves it saying little. Say which it was.
Consistency Checker · 1 section · 1,206 characters
# Method skill: Search (version 2) This skill says how the constitution and your role apply to one kind of work. It never outranks either. ## For every administrator **Search across framings and kinds of source.** Queries written from one framing tend to stay in its vocabulary, and following each result to the next goes deeper into one region rather than wider; what comes back can look complete because it is coherent. Before searching, ask what evidence would bear on the claim and where it would appear: which fields would study it and under what names, which kinds of source would carry it, and how someone outside the claim's framing would pose it. Search those places, in proportion to the claim's importance (§19). **Record how the search was done.** Say what you looked for, where, and what you left unsearched, so a later reader can see what the search could and could not have found. **Read absence in proportion to the search.** Not finding something is evidence it does not exist to the degree that the search would have found it if it did. A careful search of the places it would appear makes an absence weigh; a search that never reached them leaves it saying little. Say which it was.
Tools
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