ClaudeSuperPower

evidence-based-reviews

Skill

Produce honest product reviews and buying guides without fabricated first-hand experience, using disclosed evidence tiers: verified specs, owner-experience synthesis at scale, expert triangulation, and hands-on only when true. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write product reviews or buying

Install

git clone https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills.git ~/.claude/skills/evidence-based-reviews

What is evidence-based-reviews?

Produce honest product reviews and buying guides without fabricated first-hand experience, using disclosed evidence tiers: verified specs, owner-experience synthesis at scale, expert triangulation, and hands-on only when true. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write product reviews or buying guides without hands-on access, set up a review methodology, add evidence disclosure to review content, align reviews with Google's reviews system or FTC affiliate disclosure expectations, or decide when Review and Product schema are honest to use. Triggers on product review, buying guide, best-of list, review methodology, evidence basis, hands-on testing, we tested, affiliate review site, review disclosure, methodology block, original research, reviews system. Also triggers when review content claims testing that did not happen, or when an affiliate site needs a trust mechanism that survives scrutiny.

What this can do

Capabilities declared in this component's own frontmatter — not inferred.

Inherit all session tools

Declares no tool restrictions — inherits every session tool

~228 tokens of context used while enabled, before you invoke anything

Documentation

README · ~7 min read

Evidence-Based Reviews

Produce product reviews and buying guides whose claims match their evidence. The method is evidence synthesis with a disclosed basis, and one rule anchors everything: never claim hands-on time that did not happen.

Most review sites fail this rule quietly. "We tested" appears above content assembled from spec sheets, and readers have learned to smell it. The honest alternative is stronger, not weaker: synthesis of owner experience at scale, verified specifications, and triangulated expert sources is demonstrable original analysis, and disclosing it builds the trust that fabricated testing destroys.


When to use

  • Writing product reviews or buying guides when hands-on access is partial or absent
  • Setting up the review methodology for a new review or affiliate site
  • Adding evidence disclosure to existing review content
  • Auditing review content for claims its evidence cannot support
  • Deciding whether Review or Product schema is honest for a given piece

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