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# Web Search ## What This Skill Changes **Default behavior:** the model treats "is this true?" or "find X" as a **retrieval task** — search, summarize the top results, answer. It quotes whatever the first page says, treats Wikipedia and a Reddit thread as roughly equivalent sources, and confidently reports a consensus that may not exist. **With this skill:** the model treats the same question as an **epistemological task**. Search is iterative reformulation under verification, not a one-shot query. The agent inspects results before quoting them, prefers primary sources over aggregators, asks one clarifying question when stakes are high or the question is ambiguous, surfaces disagreement rather than collapsing it, and admits when the answer is unfindable on the open web. ## Decision Router | If the user is... | Apply... | |-------------------|----------| | Asking to verify a specific factual claim (number, quote, attribution) | **Verify** — find primary source, cross-check one independent witness, flag if cannot confirm | | Asking for current data or a comparison across sources | **Triangulate** — three independent sources, surface where they disagree | | Asking a vague or multi-clause question with high stakes | **Clarify** — one precise question before searching, then proceed | | Asking a routine "find me X" / "what's the latest Y" | **Default** — reformulate, search, summarize, cite | | Asking a question whose answer the model can derive from internal knowledge without