Knowledge Refresh

Knowledge Refresh

Purpose

Use this skill to reduce wrong decisions caused by stale prior knowledge or weak evidence. This skill provides a lightweight workflow for deciding when to verify externally, where to search first, and how to report evidence clearly.

Activation Cues

Activate when any condition is true:

• User explicitly asks to verify, provide sources, or check latest official guidance.
• The claim depends on external and time-sensitive facts (version behavior, policy, standard, pricing, release notes).
• The same technical point is disputed across multiple rounds and current evidence is weak.

Do not activate when any condition is true:

• Local code, logs, or tests can directly verify the issue.
• The task is deterministic logic with no external-fact dependency.
• The request is mainly about project memory continuity or reusable experience-card capture.

Scope Limit

This skill does:

• external evidence-oriented verification guidance
• source selection and freshness-aware search workflow
• verdict reporting with evidence pointers

This skill does not:

• replace runtime orchestrator logic
• implement trigger scoring engines
• persist project state memory
• persist reusable experience cards

Ownership Boundary

• layered-project-memory owns project continuity memory (state/events/insights).
• experience-capture owns reusable cross-task experience cards.
• knowledge-refresh owns external claim verification guidance.

Boundary rule:

• This skill may output evidence pointers and recommendations, but does not write memory/experience records by itself.

Script Decision

Use the skill-bundled scripts/smoke.sh for structure/contract checks only. No business runtime script is required in v1.

Workflow Contract

1. Define one explicit claim that needs verification.
2. Select source priority and freshness window.
3. Search and collect minimal authoritative evidence set.
4. Compare evidence against current assumption.
5. Output structured verdict: confirmed, revised, or inconclusive, with impact on next action.

Hard Rules

• Prefer first-party authoritative sources before secondary summaries.
• Include publish/update date when available.
• Never present an unverified statement as confirmed fact.
• If evidence conflicts or is insufficient, return inconclusive.
• Keep trigger logic cue-based and explainable; do not add in-skill scoring engines.

Resource Map

• Read references/positioning-boundary.md for scope and boundary details.
• Read references/activation-cues.md for activation and non-activation cues.
• Read references/source-priority.md for source ranking and trust policy.
• Read references/search-playbook.md for search and comparison process.
• Read references/output-contract.md for output structure and field definitions.
• Read references/examples.md for positive and negative examples.
• Read references/regression-cases.md for trigger-boundary regression cases.
• Use the skill-bundled scripts/smoke.sh for deterministic smoke checks.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: ChristopheZhao
• Source: ChristopheZhao/vibe-coding-skills
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.