---
skill_id: research-verification-gate
evaluation: free
price_usd_full: 7.49
challenge: https://lvlltd.com/api/pay?skill=research-verification-gate
outline: https://lvlltd.com/skills/research-verification-gate/outline.json
standards: x402, ERC-7857
---

# Free sample — Research Verification Gate

**Skill ID:** `research-verification-gate`  
**Full unlock:** $7.49 USDC via x402 on Base  
**Challenge:** https://lvlltd.com/api/pay?skill=research-verification-gate  
**Outline JSON:** https://lvlltd.com/skills/research-verification-gate/outline.json

## Summary

Verify research briefs before they ship: citation existence, quote fidelity, conflict flags, and confidence thresholds.

## When to use

- Before publishing research
- Agent brief looks too clean
- Need anti-hallucination gate

## Decision criteria (buy vs skip)

- You need this when: Before publishing research
- You get capability: Parse claims and citations
- Budget fits: full unlock is $7.49 USDC on Base
- You can automate unlock via HTTP 402 without a browser
- You only need teaser/outline first — sealed src/ops stay locked until payment

## Outline (preview)

1. Parse claims and citations
2. Check source reachability
3. Spot-check quote fidelity
4. Flag conflicts
5. Pass/fail with residual risk

## Capabilities (preview)

- Parse claims and citations
- Check source reachability
- Spot-check quote fidelity
- Flag conflicts
- Pass/fail with residual risk

## What you get after payment

- SKILL.md (teaser public)
- agent-install.json (public meta)
- src/index.js (stub public; full after unlock)
- Full sealed: src/, schemas/, ops/* (when present) after verified X-PAYMENT

## Agent buy path (zero human UI)

```
GET  https://lvlltd.com/skills/research-verification-gate/outline.json
GET  https://lvlltd.com/api/pay?skill=research-verification-gate   → HTTP 402
# transfer maxAmountRequired USDC to payTo on Base
POST https://lvlltd.com/api/pay
  X-PAYMENT: {"txHash":"0x…","skill":"research-verification-gate"}
# response.sealed_pack.files = full pack
```

## Sample excerpt

# Research Verification Gate

**Price:** $7.49 / unlock
**Category:** Research

## Summary

Verify research briefs before they ship: citation existence, quote fidelity, conflict flags, and confidence thresholds.

---

---
name: research-verification-gate
description: Gate research outputs with citation checks conflict detection and confidence thresholds before publish. Use when research verification gate, citation check, claim verification, or /research-verification-gate.
---

# Research Verification Gate

Verify research briefs before they ship: citation existence, quote fidelity, conflict flags, and confidence thresholds.

## Quick Reference
| Item | Value |
|------|-------|
| Category | Research |
| Unlock | $7.49 USDC (x402 Base) |
| Triggers | research verification, citation gate, claim check, /research-verification-gate |

## When to use
- Before publishing research
- Agent brief looks too clean
- Need anti-hallucination gate

## Core workflow
1. Ingest brief + claim ledger
2. Verify each citation target
3. Sample quote accuracy
4. Score overall confidence
5. Emit GATE PASS or FAIL

## Procedures (non-obvious)
### Hard fails
Missing citation for material claim, broken primary URL for decisive fact, or confidence inflated without evidence.

### Soft fails
Secondary-only sources for high-stakes claims — require human upgrade path.

## Edge cases
- Offline archives
- DOI paywalls

## Failure modes
- Rubber-stamp gates
- Ignoring conflicts

## Verification
- GATE decision logged
- Fail cases list concrete fixes

## Artifact outputs
- `verification-report.md`
- `gate-result.json`
- `fix-list.md`

## Related skills
- deep-research-synthesizer
- literature-review-automator
- structured-data-extractor

## Super Alignment Contract
- Scalable oversight method: process supervision + human+AI critique before high-blast actions
- Corrigibility guarantees: shutdown, steerability, non-deception; operator may abort mid-run
- Value model: Partnership Agreement + 5 Behavioral Protocols
- Drift detection: flag invented evidence, skipped verification, or revenue-over-truth optimization
- Red-team surface: prompt injection via retrieved content, tool-result poisoning, goal mis

…(remainder sealed after x402 unlock)…