About learn-verify
learn-verify is a skill for checking claims before they are taught as facts, including empirical, historical, bibliographic, API, and theorem claims. It uses sources and records a verdict with supporting evidence.
Key features
- 01Frame claims as falsifiable sentences
- 02Find and check reliable sources
- 03Record support and source editions
- 04Note disagreements and return a verdict
Use cases
- 01Verify empirical or historical facts
- 02Check API, tool, or bibliographic details
- 03Validate theorems and standard facts
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ vasanthsreeram/ alvarmethod --skill learn-verifyAfter installing, type/learn-verifyin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMELearn verify
Trust is engineered. Check the claim before it is taught as fact.
When to run
- Empirical, historical, bibliographic, or API/tool claims
- Named theorems, identities, or "standard facts" you cannot reconstruct
- Anything you were about to present with unearned certainty
Skip a full search only when you can derive the statement in-session and the learner does not need an external citation. Still say that it was derived, not sourced.
Method
- Write the claim in one falsifiable sentence.
- Fetch or search primary-ish sources (paper, textbook, official docs, standard reference). Do not cite a URL you did not open.
- Quote or paraphrase the supporting line. Note edition / year if it matters.
- Mark disagreements. Prefer the source the field actually uses.
- Return a verdict.
Verdict
## Claim
…
## Verdict
confirmed | qualified | contradicted | unknown
## Sources
- <title> — <url or citation> — <what it says>
## Teach as
<one sentence the teacher may now say, with any hedge>
qualified = true under stated assumptions (dimension, characteristic, gauge, version).
unknown = do not teach it as fact. Say you could not verify.
Rules
- No invented papers, quotes, or page numbers.
- One claim per run. Batch only if they are the same fact in different words.
- Write the verdict into the session file if a teach session is open.
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