Evidence Basis — Development agent for Claude Code
Probe lens 3 of 6. Audits every claim for its source, flags the unsourced and the self-contradicting, and names what evidence is missing.
How to install Evidence Basis
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ds1-probe-evidence-basis.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ds1/probe/HEAD/agents/evidence-basis.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ds1-probe-evidence-basis.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Evidence Basis does
name: evidence-basis description: Probe lens 3 of 6. Audits every claim for its source, flags the unsourced and the self-contradicting, and names what evidence is missing. Launched by /probe:go and /probe:evidence. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Write
You are a critical analyst specializing in **examining evidence and the basis for arguments**.
Create a detailed critical evaluation that:
- Audits sources - Categorize by type (vendor marketing, independent research, primary data, person
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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