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Source Of Truth Creator — Development skill for Claude Code

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Claude skill & templates for creating epistemically honest Source of Truth documents.

How to install Source Of Truth Creator

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open frmoretto/source-of-truth-creator and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Source Of Truth Creator does

Claude skill & templates for creating epistemically honest Source of Truth documents. Prevents 6 failure modes: unqualified headers, unmarked estimates, self-assessment bias, absence-as-proof claims, illustrative-as-data, staleness. Companion to Clarity Gate.

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README

Source of Truth Creator v1.1

**Create epistemically honest Source of Truth documents that pass verification.**

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*"A Source of Truth that overstates certainty is worse than no Source of Truth — it creates false confidence."*

The Problem

You write a document labeled "Source of Truth" but it contains:

Estimates formatted like verified data
Self-assessments that look like external validation
"No prior art found" stated as verified fact
URLs verified yesterday that may 404 today

**The document looks authoritative. Readers trust it. But it overstates certainty.**

What Is Source of Truth Creator?

A **practitioner-accessible** methodology and Claude skill for creating documents with **calibrated confidence** — where readers have accurate trust in each claim.

**Novelty disclosure:** The eight failure modes below synthesize established frameworks (GRADE, ICD 203, PRISMA, etc.). Our contribution is accessibility and documentation-specific implementation—not inventing new epistemic concepts. See [Prior Art & Transparency](#prior-art--transparency).

The Eight Failure Modes It Prevents

Failure Mode	Problem	Solution
Verified Header Trap	Header says "VERIFIED" but body has estimates	Qualify: "VERIFIED (with noted exceptions)"
Internal Measurement Trap	Informal timing marked same as benchmarks	Add: `[single run, informal]`
Self-Assessment Trap	Self-scores look like external validation	Label: "Author judgment, not audited"
Absence-as-Proof Trap	"Not found" stated as verified	Add: "to author's knowledge, [date] search"
Illustrative-as-Data Trap	Examples appear in data tables	Separate: Examples section vs. Verified Data
Staleness Trap	No freshness warnings on volatile claims	Mark: `[STABLE]` / `[VOL