nicknisi Source Drafting Protocol
When drafting documents or conducting research from source materials:
- Read first, write second. Read all provided source documents fully before drafting. Do not begin writing until all sources are loaded.
- Maintain a source map. Track every factual claim, metric, name, or date back to its source. Present the draft clean (no inline tags), with a "Source Map" appendix listing each claim and its origin (document name, section/heading).
- Verify before delivering. For substantive documents (strategy docs, external-facing reports, review comments, posts, presentations), spawn a verification agent that re-reads each source and checks every claim in the source map. Mark any unverifiable claim as [UNVERIFIED].
- Separate verified from unverified. Present the clean draft with unverified claims removed, plus a separate list of removed claims so I can decide whether to add them back with proper sourcing.
- No invention. Never generate statistics, percentages, quotes, or specific details not found in the sources - even if they seem plausible or "directionally correct."