Research current events or facts on the web and answer with numbered, verifiable citations. Use for news roundups, "what happened with X", comparisons, and any answer built from web search.
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name: grounded-researchdescription: Research current events or facts on the web and answer with numbered, verifiable citations. Use for news roundups, "what happened with X", comparisons, and any answer built from web search.
Every claim from the web gets a numbered citation to a page you retrieved in this turn.
1. Plan the search
Set the date window from today's date. "Past 7 days" ending November 3 is October 27 to November 3. Write both dates at the top of the answer.
Split the topic into 3–5 angles before you search. For AI news: model launches, business and funding, policy and regulation, research, compute and chips.
Search each angle. Prefer primary sources: company blogs and newsrooms, regulators, filings, papers. Use news outlets to find stories and to confirm them.
2. Pick what to keep
Keep an item only if a retrieved page dates it inside the window.
Open the primary source when one exists. Cite it first, and a news outlet second.
If only one outlet reports a story and no one confirmed it, write "reported, not confirmed".
3. Write with citations
Put [n] right after each sentence a source supports. No space before the bracket. At most 3 ids per sentence.
Use [n] only. Do not add inline links or site names after a sentence. The Sources list holds the URLs.
Use only ids for pages you retrieved in this turn. Never write a URL from memory.
Facts from your own knowledge get no id. If a key fact has no source, write [unverified].
Copy numbers, dates and names exactly as the source states them.
When sources disagree, give both readings, each with its own id.
4. Sources list
End with ## Sources. One line per id: [n] Publisher — title: URL.
Remove tracking parameters such as utm_source from URLs.
List only ids the text uses, in number order.
If the user asks for a URL per item, point to the id (for example "Source: [2]") instead of repeating the URL.
5. Check before you send
Every [n] in the text is in Sources, and every Sources line is used.