What problem does it solve? When a verification pass comes back empty, writers face a choice: ship a hedged guess or handle the gap honestly. This Skill replaces the hedged hallucination with an explicit disposition — drop the claim, refuse it in plain words, escalate it as a named open question, or report the disagreement between conflicting sources. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Load-bearing test: Distinguishes claims whose removal would change a decision from peripheral filler that can be silently dropped. - Four explicit dispositions: Abstain-and-ask, escalate, abstain outright, or report disagreement — each with plain-words wording templates and no "probably" or "I think". - Recoverable gap records: Leaves <!-- abstained: ... --> markers in documents and structured open-question notes so later passes can backfill rather than rediscover. - Use Case: A market brief contains an unsourced shipment figure that drives its conclusion. The Skill tests that the claim is load-bearing, records the search performed, writes a plain-words abstention naming what would close the gap, and leaves a marker in the document. ## Quick Start Use the abstain-or-escalate skill to decide what to do with the unsourced claims in my draft report.
