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Research a question and write a fully cited report
Give it the question. Get an outline, the sources, a cited report and a check of every claim.
Research a question and write a fully cited report is a free AI workflow for the job "Research a topic properly". It guides your AI through several skills in order, passing each step's output to the next.
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What it does
Research reports fail quietly. The question was never broken down, so the search found the easy sources and missed the key one. The report reads well, and three of its claims rest on nothing, including the one the reader will quote. Nobody checks, because checking means reading every source again. This workflow builds the report so it can be checked. It outlines the question into sub-questions and says what evidence would answer each. It searches scholarly databases and public sources and keeps a shortlist with a note on each. It writes the report with a citation on every claim, in a format the reader can follow back. Then a separate pass reads the report against the sources and flags every claim they do not support, so it is fixed, softened or cut before anyone reads it.
You give it
- The question, in your words
- What the answer is for and who will read it
- Sources you already have or trust (optional)
- Sources or kinds of sources to avoid (optional)
- A draft (optional)
You get
- A research outline with sub-questions and the evidence that would answer each
- A shortlist of sources with a note on each
- A report with a citation on every claim
- A check of every claim against its source, with fixes applied
Use it when
- A decision rests on a factual question and you want an answer you can defend.
- You write for people who check sources.
- Your last report had a claim that turned out to be unsupported.
Steps
- Research question outliner: Paste a research question. Get sub-questions, sources to find and what a good answer needs.
- Scholarly database searcher: Ask a research question. Get papers, preprints, citations and open full text from 18 free sources, with the search shown.
- Cited research report writer: Ask a question. Get a cited report with each claim checked against its source quote. Uses many tokens. Scrapes sites.
- Unsupported claim spotter: Paste a draft. Get every claim that needs a source, ranked by risk, with the kind of source to find.
How to use it
- Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.
- Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
- Paste the question and what the answer is for. It outlines the research and searches for sources.
- Read the shortlist. Add sources you trust or strike ones you do not.
- Read the report and the claim check. Publish or file the corrected version.