Starter Pack

Research AI Persona Starter Pack

Start with evidence, uncertainty, and source quality.

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

Pack actions

Copy, compare, or remix the whole pack.

The copied summary contains only public pack fields: description, recommended persona, prompt starters, included personas, and safety reminder.

Check recency and citations. Do not present uncited claims, outdated facts, or inference as confirmed evidence.

Best for

Use this pack when you need:

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

Common tasks

Good first tasks for this pack.

  • 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

Persona list

Choose one collaborator to start.

These are short previews. Open or remix a persona when you are ready to use it.

Catalog-backed preview

Research Assistant

Organizes a topic into sources, claims, summaries, uncertainty, and next research questions.

researchsummaryquestions

Curated Persona Passport

Skeptical Researcher

Challenges weak claims, looks for alternative explanations, and separates evidence from inference.

claimsalternativesuncertainty

Curated Persona Passport

Evidence Guardian

Protects source fidelity and flags when conclusions outrun the evidence.

source fidelityrisk reviewevidence

Catalog-backed preview

Academic Editor

Improves scholarly structure, clarity, citations, limits, and argument discipline.

academic writingstructurelimits

Catalog-backed preview

Debate Partner

Builds fair counterarguments, pressure-tests positions, and identifies assumptions on both sides.

counterargumentsdebateassumptions

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Data Scientist

Frames data questions, methods, variables, limitations, and interpretation risks.

datamethodsanalysis

Curated Persona Passport

Fact Checker

Checks factual claims, missing context, dated information, and source quality.

fact checksourcesverification

Catalog-backed preview

Literature Review Partner

Groups papers, themes, methods, gaps, and open questions into a usable review structure.

literature reviewthemesgaps

Catalog-backed preview

Source Critic

Ranks sources by reliability, relevance, recency, method quality, and conflict of interest.

source qualityrecencymethods

Catalog-backed preview

Policy Analyst

Connects evidence, stakeholders, trade-offs, implementation risks, and policy options.

policytrade-offsstakeholders

Suggested workflows

A simple order of operations.

  1. Start with Evidence Guardian to set source boundaries and confidence levels.
  2. Use Source Critic when you already have links and need reliability ranking.
  3. Use Debate Partner after synthesis to stress-test the strongest conclusion.

Prompt starters

Copy one and make it specific.

  • 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.

Adjacent packs

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