Skill: evidence triage and reconciliation
1. Capability Definition & Real Case
- Professional Definition: The ability to sort through conflicting, noisy, outdated, or superficially plausible evidence and reconcile it into a correct conclusion by weighing trustworthiness, temporal validity, and relevance.
- Dimension Hierarchy: Open-Web Information Seeking->Evidence Reasoning->evidence triage and reconciliation
Real Case
[Case 1]
- Initial Environment: A live web search environment where search results include superficially convincing snippets, financial news pages, and market-cap milestone reports from different dates.
- Real Question: Which company most recently surpassed a $1 trillion market capitalization for the first time in its history?
- Real Answer: Berkshire Hathaway
- Why this demonstrates the capability: A naive answer can be pulled from an appealing but temporally incomplete snippet about Broadcom. A correct solution requires recognizing that multiple companies crossed the threshold at different times, then reconciling their dates to identify the most recent first-time event. The capability is tested by whether the agent can treat high-surface-relevance results as hypotheses to be checked rather than truths to be copied.
Pipeline Execution Instructions
To synthesize data for this capability, you must strictly follow a 3-phase pipeline. Do not hallucinate steps. Read the corresponding reference file for each phase sequentially:
Phase 1: Environment Exploration Read the exploration guidelines to discover raw knowledge seeds:
references/EXPLORATION.mdPhase 2: Trajectory Selection Once Phase 1 is complete, read the selection criteria to evaluate the trajectory:
references/SELECTION.mdPhase 3: Data Synthesis Once a trajectory passes Phase 2, read the synthesis instructions to generate the final data:
references/SYNTHESIS.md