How to use Fact-Check Workflow in your AI agent

What you'll get

This skill guides you through professional fact-checking — from identifying claims worth verifying to rating their accuracy and documenting your findings. It includes templates for tracking evidence, contacting sources for responses, and deciding how to rate claims on standard journalistic scales. Whether you're checking a single stat before publishing or building a full fact-check story, this workflow keeps your verification rigorous and defensible.

Step 1 — Get the skill source URL

The Fact-Check Workflow skill lives at:

Step 2 — Add it to your AI agent

Copy one of these prompts and paste it into your AI tool. The agent will fetch and install the skill for you.

Add the agent skill from https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/fact-check-workflow to my project.

Install this agent skill: https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/fact-check-workflow

Add this skill to .codex/skills/: https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/fact-check-workflow

Add the skill at https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/fact-check-workflow to my .gemini/skills/ directory.

Install this agent skill from https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/fact-check-workflow

Add this skill: https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/fact-check-workflow

Step 3 — Try these prompts

Once the skill is installed, ask your AI things like:

• Publishing an article and need to verify facts before it goes live
• Writing a dedicated fact-check piece rating someone's claims
• Document your verification process for editorial standards
• Training a team on consistent fact-checking practices

What this skill does

• Extracts checkable claims from articles or statements and prioritizes them by importance
• Guides research through primary and secondary sources with documentation templates
• Provides rating scales (True, Mostly True, False, etc.) with clear criteria for each level
• Creates templates for contacting sources and giving right of response
• Organizes evidence collection with checklists for documents, data, and expert sources