content-research-and-sourcing
The research-and-sourcing craft : verify the substance of a piece before it publishes: trace stats to...
What this skill does for you
The research-and-sourcing craft : verify the substance of a piece before it publishes: trace stats to primary sources, kill zombie stats, catch AI-hallucinated citations, and attribute properly on social. Use when someone has a stat-heavy draft to make publish-ready, wants to check if a viral statistic is real, asks how to cite sources, used AI research output, or is making health/finance claims. Uses the FACTS framework. Reads brand-profile + the piece's format skill first. AI-supplied citations are guilty until verified; a working link is not verification; aggregators are leads, not the source; where none exists, reframe as owned observation or commission data. The agent verifies where it has search; the human clicks links where it doesn't; verification happens before scheduling; WoopSocial publishes. Never invents studies or reuses retracted stats. Distinct from idea-generation, data-and-original-research, quote-cards, and infographic-and-data-viz.
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Use it with Edge
Set up Edge for me: read getedge.cc/SKILL.md and follow it. Then use Edge to load the content-research-and-sourcing skill from social-media-skills/skills.
Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor.
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Security evidence
| Scanner | Date | Result | Findings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edge static checks | 2026-09-27 | Pass | 0 |
| Cisco skill-scanner | 2026-09-27 | Pass | 0 |
| Semgrep Edge rules | 2026-09-27 | Pass | 0 |
Static scans check the code, not how well the skill works.
Scanner scope, raw findings and mirrored provider records
Edge static checks (Edge-run): edge-static/1.0.1. Scope: Static patterns for remote execution, credentials with network sends, obfuscation, prompt overrides, hidden Unicode, binaries and persistence. Revision: 6e30eeb2f6736bda8683b6bbaa674af3641d7945. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .
Cisco skill-scanner (Edge-run): cisco-skill-scanner/2.1.0. Scope: Local static, YARA, pipeline and behavioral analyzers; no LLM or AI Defense analysis. Revision: 6e30eeb2f6736bda8683b6bbaa674af3641d7945. Raw findings: 1. Counted findings: .
Semgrep Edge rules (Edge-run): semgrep/1.178.0+edge-rules.c15016a36fd3+offline-v1. Scope: Six Edge-authored static rules with Semgrep CE; offline execution and metrics disabled. Semgrep-maintained rules excluded. Revision: 6e30eeb2f6736bda8683b6bbaa674af3641d7945. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .
Source and licence
- Repository
- https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills
- Pinned skill file
- View source at revision
- Revision
- 6e30eeb2f6736bda8683b6bbaa674af3641d7945
- Package hash
- sha256:29661f4774347bb0137bbfebdf4df62c14c1f65a33f1b1f14612c7245ac8a59b
- Licence
- MIT