Reusable AI capability
Maintain Citation Currency and Supersession Decisions
Apply a recurring method to detect corrected, retracted, obsolete, or superseded citations and govern claim updates without confusing age with invalidity.
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# Maintain Citation Currency and Supersession Decisions Skill ID: AMO-S-000026 Skill URL: https://amo.ng/skills/maintain-citation-currency-supersession-decisions Purpose: Give researchers, editors, policy owners, and release owners a reusable evidence-currentness capability for periodic review, new-source alerts, and pre-release citation gates. Required inputs: - Exact consequential claims and intended publication, decision, or policy use - Citation register, source versions and dates, links, identifiers, and accessible source content - Corrections, retractions, later editions, updates, superseding evidence or guidance, and review cutoff date - Population, jurisdiction, method, authority, and decision-condition requirements - Research, editorial, policy, legal, and release owners where applicable How to use: When to use: - Existing claims rely on evidence that may have been corrected, retracted, updated, or superseded. - A recurring review or release gate must decide whether citations remain current for their exact use. When not to use: - General source discovery with no exact claim and citation set. - Rejecting evidence merely because it is old. - Treating a newer source as automatically more authoritative or applicable. Reusable method: 1. Freeze claim wording, intended use, decision conditions, and review cutoff. 2. Record each citation's version, date, authority, population, jurisdiction, method, and source status. 3. Search supplied or accessible evidence for corrections, retractions, later versions, living updates, superseding guidance, and material new evidence. 4. Compare applicability and authority, then classify each citation as Current, Current with limits, Superseded, Corrected, Retracted, Inaccessible, or Unresolved. 5. Trace which claims and downstream decisions are affected and whether support remains sufficient. 6. Set Retain, Replace, Narrow, Hold, Remove, or Correct dispositions with owners, deadlines, and re-review triggers. Expected output: A citation currency register, supersession chain, affected-claim map, source-authority comparison, unresolved access gaps, wording and citation actions, and owner release decisions. Boundaries: Do not invent source access, status, updates, applicability, or approval. Researchers and editors approve evidence and wording; policy and domain owners approve use boundaries; legal reviewers interpret legal requirements; the release owner controls publication or correction. Source: AMO-P-000320. Applicable Workflow: AMO-W-000011. Based on Prompt: Citation Obsolescence and Supersession Audit Source ID: AMO-P-000320 https://amo.ng/prompts/citation-obsolescence-supersession-audit Completion criteria: Complete when every material citation has a status and evidence date; corrections, retractions, later versions, and superseding sources are dispositioned; affected claims have Retain, Replace, Narrow, Hold, Remove, or Correct actions; and unresolved evidence has an owner and re-review trigger. Use this Amo.ng Skill with your preferred AI tool. Supply the required inputs and follow the usage instructions. # Maintain Citation Currency and Supersession Decisions Skill ID: AMO-S-000026 Skill URL: https://amo.ng/skills/maintain-citation-currency-supersession-decisions Purpose: Give researchers, editors, policy owners, and release owners a reusable evidence-currentness capability for periodic review, new-source alerts, and pre-release citation gates. Required inputs: - Exact consequential claims and intended publication, decision, or policy use - Citation register, source versions and dates, links, identifiers, and accessible source content - Corrections, retractions, later editions, updates, superseding evidence or guidance, and review cutoff date - Population, jurisdiction, method, authority, and decision-condition requirements - Research, editorial, policy, legal, and release owners where applicable How to use: When to use: - Existing claims rely on evidence that may have been corrected, retracted, updated, or superseded. - A recurring review or release gate must decide whether citations remain current for their exact use. When not to use: - General source discovery with no exact claim and citation set. - Rejecting evidence merely because it is old. - Treating a newer source as automatically more authoritative or applicable. Reusable method: 1. Freeze claim wording, intended use, decision conditions, and review cutoff. 2. Record each citation's version, date, authority, population, jurisdiction, method, and source status. 3. Search supplied or accessible evidence for corrections, retractions, later versions, living updates, superseding guidance, and material new evidence. 4. Compare applicability and authority, then classify each citation as Current, Current with limits, Superseded, Corrected, Retracted, Inaccessible, or Unresolved. 5. Trace which claims and downstream decisions are affected and whether support remains sufficient. 6. Set Retain, Replace, Narrow, Hold, Remove, or Correct dispositions with owners, deadlines, and re-review triggers. Expected output: A citation currency register, supersession chain, affected-claim map, source-authority comparison, unresolved access gaps, wording and citation actions, and owner release decisions. Boundaries: Do not invent source access, status, updates, applicability, or approval. Researchers and editors approve evidence and wording; policy and domain owners approve use boundaries; legal reviewers interpret legal requirements; the release owner controls publication or correction. Source: AMO-P-000320. Applicable Workflow: AMO-W-000011. Based on Prompt: Citation Obsolescence and Supersession Audit Source ID: AMO-P-000320 https://amo.ng/prompts/citation-obsolescence-supersession-audit Completion criteria: Complete when every material citation has a status and evidence date; corrections, retractions, later versions, and superseding sources are dispositioned; affected claims have Retain, Replace, Narrow, Hold, Remove, or Correct actions; and unresolved evidence has an owner and re-review trigger.Copy Skill copies the full Skill instructions. Use with AI copies those instructions with a short guide for your chosen AI tool. Both actions only copy text—they do not send anything to an AI provider or run the Skill.
Purpose
Give researchers, editors, policy owners, and release owners a reusable evidence-currentness capability for periodic review, new-source alerts, and pre-release citation gates.
Required inputs
Have these details available before following the usage instructions.
- Exact consequential claims and intended publication, decision, or policy use
- Citation register, source versions and dates, links, identifiers, and accessible source content
- Corrections, retractions, later editions, updates, superseding evidence or guidance, and review cutoff date
- Population, jurisdiction, method, authority, and decision-condition requirements
- Research, editorial, policy, legal, and release owners where applicable
How to use this Skill
When to use:
- Existing claims rely on evidence that may have been corrected, retracted, updated, or superseded.
- A recurring review or release gate must decide whether citations remain current for their exact use.
When not to use:
- General source discovery with no exact claim and citation set.
- Rejecting evidence merely because it is old.
- Treating a newer source as automatically more authoritative or applicable.
Reusable method:
1. Freeze claim wording, intended use, decision conditions, and review cutoff.
2. Record each citation's version, date, authority, population, jurisdiction, method, and source status.
3. Search supplied or accessible evidence for corrections, retractions, later versions, living updates, superseding guidance, and material new evidence.
4. Compare applicability and authority, then classify each citation as Current, Current with limits, Superseded, Corrected, Retracted, Inaccessible, or Unresolved.
5. Trace which claims and downstream decisions are affected and whether support remains sufficient.
6. Set Retain, Replace, Narrow, Hold, Remove, or Correct dispositions with owners, deadlines, and re-review triggers.
Expected output:
A citation currency register, supersession chain, affected-claim map, source-authority comparison, unresolved access gaps, wording and citation actions, and owner release decisions.
Boundaries:
Do not invent source access, status, updates, applicability, or approval. Researchers and editors approve evidence and wording; policy and domain owners approve use boundaries; legal reviewers interpret legal requirements; the release owner controls publication or correction. Source: AMO-P-000320. Applicable Workflow: AMO-W-000011.
Based on an Amo.ng Prompt
Citation Obsolescence and Supersession Audit
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Completion criteria
Complete when every material citation has a status and evidence date; corrections, retractions, later versions, and superseding sources are dispositioned; affected claims have Retain, Replace, Narrow, Hold, Remove, or Correct actions; and unresolved evidence has an owner and re-review trigger.
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