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Research Evidence Synthesis

Protocol-driven source review with methods appraisal, structured extraction, contradiction analysis, and citation audit.

Load

./scripts/load-crew.sh --restart ../CrewDefine/crews/research-evidence-synthesis

Sample prompt

Synthesize the supplied literature on the stated question. Document scope and search limitations, appraise methods criterion by criterion, normalize comparable findings, analyze contradictions, and separate source conclusions from model inference.

Outputs

  • Evidence Brief
  • Structured Synthesis
  • Full Evidence Review
  • Research Plan
  • Evidence Roadmap

Tools

validate information sufficiency · generate followup questions · web search · scrape website · document · knowledge base · calculator · visualizer · extract citations structured · study quality assessment · evidence table builder

Roster

  • Director director — Review protocol, scope, sufficiency checks, and specialist coordination
  • Search Strategist specialist — Search design, source records, and screening inputs
  • Methods Reviewer specialist — Study design, internal validity, and criterion-level bias appraisal
  • Evidence Extractor specialist — Comparable evidence rows, missing fields, and duplicate candidates
  • Quantitative Reviewer specialist — Estimates, statistical methods, heterogeneity, and uncertainty
  • Contradiction Analyst specialist — Substantive disagreement versus methodological variation
  • Citation Auditor specialist — Provenance, reference consistency, and citation ledger
  • Synthesizer synthesizer — Traceable synthesis with explicit evidence gaps and uncertainty

Generated by CrewDefine · validated and instantiated in Zero

Getting started Source on GitHub

Scope

The configuration treats evidence synthesis as a documented process rather than unrestricted question answering. It records search limitations, inclusion and exclusion decisions, methodological concerns, incompatible findings, and citation provenance. It does not claim that a web search is exhaustive or equivalent to a database-specific systematic review.

Deterministic tools

study_quality_assessment returns criterion-level completeness and risk flags; it deliberately does not reduce methodological quality to a single score.

evidence_table_builder normalizes extracted fields, reports missing values and duplicate candidates, and identifies comparisons that require unit or scale review. It does not infer pooled effects.

Validation

The package was produced through a CrewDefine interview, passed crewdefine validate, passed Zero’s crew validator with both plugins loaded, and instantiated through Zero’s AgentRegistry as eight agents with five output modes.

Load

cd Zero
./scripts/load-crew.sh --restart ../CrewDefine/crews/research-evidence-synthesis