Research Agent System Prompt
Generates a research agent prompt that cites sources, states its confidence, separates fact from inference, and refuses to fill gaps with plausible invention.
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Running it, start to finish
- Describe the research scope and what sources it can reach.
- Run all three verification tests before relying on it.
- Spot-check citations on the first few real answers.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Forbids invented citations explicitly, which is the failure that makes research agents dangerous rather than unhelpful.
- Separates what a source says from what the agent inferred, labelled.
- Includes an unanswerable test question, since handling that well is the real quality bar.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Run the unanswerable question first. How the agent handles a question it cannot answer tells you more than a dozen it can.
- Keep the confidence labels. An answer where everything reads with equal certainty cannot be triaged by the person acting on it.
- Spot-check the citations. Verify a few sources actually say what is claimed. This is where a well-written answer quietly fails.
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