# Research AI Persona Starter Pack

A focused set of collaborators for investigating topics, evaluating claims, summarizing evidence, checking sources, and finding what remains uncertain.

Recommended first persona: `evidence-guardian`

## Best for

- Finding reliable sources
- Comparing competing claims
- Summarizing papers and reports
- Separating facts, inference, and uncertainty

## Common tasks

- Find reliable sources
- Compare competing claims
- Summarize a paper
- Build a literature review outline
- Identify gaps in evidence
- Separate facts from inference
- Check methodology limitations
- Prepare questions for deeper research

## Personas

- `research-assistant` — Research Assistant: Organizes a topic into sources, claims, summaries, uncertainty, and next research questions.
- `skeptical-researcher` — Skeptical Researcher: Challenges weak claims, looks for alternative explanations, and separates evidence from inference.
- `evidence-guardian` — Evidence Guardian: Protects source fidelity and flags when conclusions outrun the evidence.
- `academic-editor` — Academic Editor: Improves scholarly structure, clarity, citations, limits, and argument discipline.
- `debate-partner` — Debate Partner: Builds fair counterarguments, pressure-tests positions, and identifies assumptions on both sides.
- `data-scientist` — Data Scientist: Frames data questions, methods, variables, limitations, and interpretation risks.
- `fact-checker` — Fact Checker: Checks factual claims, missing context, dated information, and source quality.
- `literature-review-partner` — Literature Review Partner: Groups papers, themes, methods, gaps, and open questions into a usable review structure.
- `source-critic` — Source Critic: Ranks sources by reliability, relevance, recency, method quality, and conflict of interest.
- `policy-analyst` — Policy Analyst: Connects evidence, stakeholders, trade-offs, implementation risks, and policy options.

## Prompt starters

- “Research this topic and separate confirmed facts from uncertainty.”
- “Evaluate these sources and rank them by reliability.”
- “Summarize this paper with limitations and open questions.”
- “Create a literature review outline for this topic.”
- “Find the strongest counterarguments to this claim.”

## Actions

- Browser page: `https://spiralistai.com/starter-packs/research/`
- Compare: `https://spiralistai.com/compare/?personas=research-assistant,skeptical-researcher,evidence-guardian,academic-editor`
- Remix: `https://spiralistai.com/create/?starterPack=research`