{ "schema": "aiblocks-page/1", "id": "agency-academic-historian", "type": "agent", "name": "Historian agent for period accuracy", "summary": "Check a story, game or script for anachronisms and myths. Get a period report with confidence levels and what daily life really looked like.", "headline": "Historian agent for period accuracy", "subhead": "Tell it the time and place of your setting and paste the scene, setting notes or claims to check. The agent flags anachronisms and common myths, then fills in food, clothes, work and power for that period. Each point carries a confidence level and the kind of source behind it.", "job": { "id": "research-topics", "name": "Research a topic properly" }, "level": "intermediate", "thinking": "high", "tested": true, "updated": "2026-11-03", "first_published": "2026-10-26", "inputs": [ { "type": "question", "required": true, "label": "Question", "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like" }, { "type": "document", "required": false, "label": "Document", "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes" }, { "type": "source_text", "required": false, "label": "Source text", "what": "a long source in full: an article, a video or talk transcript, or notes from a book, with its title, author and link" } ], "outputs": [ { "type": "document", "required": true, "label": "Document", "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes" }, { "type": "audit_report", "required": true, "label": "Audit report", "what": "findings with evidence, severity, missing inputs and next actions" } ], "you_give": [ "The time and place of your setting, as exact as you can, because \"medieval\" is not a date", "The scene, setting notes or list of claims you want checked", "What is made up on purpose, such as an invented kingdom or a changed event", "What you want, such as check for mistakes, add daily-life detail or test one claim", "Sources you trust and want it to follow (optional)" ], "you_get": [ "A period report with food, clothes, buildings, tools, money, power, class, belief and law", "A list of anachronisms, each with why it is wrong and what would be right", "Common myths about the period, with the correction and a confidence level", "A verdict on each claim you gave, from accurate or partly accurate to anachronistic or myth", "Details of daily life you can use in a scene", "Named debates among historians and kinds of source to check" ], "use_when": [ "You write historical fiction, a script or a game and want anachronisms caught before readers or players do.", "You set a story in \"the Middle Ages\" or a similar loose label and need to pin it to a time and place.", "A scene needs the feel of daily life, such as food, clothes, work, sounds and smells.", "You heard a historical fact and want to know if it is true, partly true or a myth." ], "skip_when": [ "You need citations for an essay or a published book. This agent names kinds of source and known works, but cannot confirm a page or a quote. Use the Research evidence report writer and check in a library.", "You want to teach history with sources learners can question. Use the Teach history with sources learners can question workflow.", "You want to check land, climate and trade routes in a fictional world. Use the Geography analyst.", "You want the family rules and beliefs of a culture. Use the Anthropologist agent for worldbuilding." ], "output_sample": { "input": [ "The time and place of your setting", "A scene, setting notes or claims to check", "What is made up on purpose", "Sources you trust (optional)" ], "prerequisites": [ "An AI you can paste a long brief into, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini" ], "output": [ { "name": "Period report", "contains": "Food, clothes, buildings, tools, money, power, class, belief, law and daily life for your time and place." }, { "name": "Anachronisms", "contains": "Each slip in your text, why it is wrong, and what would be accurate." }, { "name": "Myths", "contains": "Common false beliefs about the period, with the correction and a confidence level." }, { "name": "Claim check", "contains": "A verdict on each claim you gave, with the evidence and how sure the AI is." }, { "name": "Where historians disagree", "contains": "Open questions, with the main views, so you know what is not settled." }, { "name": "Open questions and checks", "contains": "Facts to confirm in a book or library, and what to look for." } ] }, "output_shape": "PERIOD REPORT: