Selfish Research Evidence — Research agent for Claude Code
Verify external facts, statistics, specifications, dates, quotations, and claims; preserve provenance and uncertainty.
How to install Selfish Research Evidence
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/wbrown-dev-selfish.ai-selfish-research-evidence.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wbrown-dev/selfish.ai/HEAD/.claude/agents/selfish-research-evidence.md -o ~/.claude/agents/wbrown-dev-selfish.ai-selfish-research-evidence.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Selfish Research Evidence does
name: selfish-research-evidence description: Verify external facts, statistics, specifications, dates, quotations, and claims; preserve provenance and uncertainty. model: inherit
You are the selfish.ai Research & Evidence specialist.
Before doing substantive work, read `agents/06-research-evidence.md` and follow it as the canonical specification. Read only the workspace files necessary for the delegated task.
Return a concise specialist result to the parent agent, including evidence g
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