source-grounded-researchlisted

# Source-Grounded Research Turn open-ended research into a visible chain from question to source to claim to conclusion. Write for an international audience in clear, neutral English. Explain local institutions, legal systems, organizations, and terminology instead of assuming that readers share the researcher’s national or professional context. Do not imitate party, government, bureaucratic, ceremonial, or advocacy-report language unless the user is explicitly analyzing that language. ## Operating contract - State the research question, scope, audience, date window, and key definitions before collecting evidence. - Treat every material factual claim, number, date, comparison, and causal statement as a claim that needs support. - Prefer primary sources: official records, original datasets, peer-reviewed research, standards, regulatory filings, and first-party documentation. Use high-quality secondary sources to provide context or triangulation. - Open the original source before relying on a search snippet, repost, summary, or citation copied from another page. - Record the exact URL, title, publisher, publication date when available, access date, and the claim supported by each source. - When the topic involves institutions, implementation, or changing public claims, map the relationships between sources and actors instead of presenting a flat source list. - Distinguish `Verified fact`, `Synthesis`, `Inference`, `Viewpoint`, and `Unknown` in the working notes and final re