Importance of verification summaries

This article give reasons on why we need verification summaries generated while doing deep search to solidify our output

To produce a superior final report, you should keep your [{Topic Name} + Verification Report] notes toggled ON during the final synthesis. Unlike the initial [Primary Subject Summary] created in Step 4, which included unvetted “fluff,” these verification reports represent verified documentation that has been filtered through your “Who to Trust” criteria.

Keeping these reports active in your source panel provides several key advantages:

• Establishing an Audit Trail: These reports act as a “built-in audit trail”. They connect the interesting topics you selected to the specific evidence found in expert documents, ensuring the AI doesn’t have to “guess” which source supports which claim.

• Navigating the “Needle in the Haystack”: While your primary scholarly PDFs contain the raw data, the verification reports provide the semantic bridge. They help the AI identify the specific “needle” of information (like a specific verse from the Vishnu Purana) within a large volume of text, which is essential for accurate drafting.

• Strengthening Hallucination Defense: By keeping these reports active, you reinforce the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) framework. The AI will prioritize these “clean” reports over its general training data, which reduces the risk of fabrication and ensures all claims are strictly grounded in your vetted research.

• Improving Citation Accuracy: When you ask the AI to generate the final manuscript in APA 7 format, having the verification reports on helps it cross-reference the synthesized facts with the primary source metadata (Author, Year) more effectively.

Important Distinction for Step 6 Cleanup: You should only toggle OFF the initial [Primary Subject Summary] and any unvetted sources (blogs/personal sites). The targeted verification reports created in Step 5 are considered part of your “verified corpus” and are critical for a high-integrity final output.

In summary, keeping these reports toggled ON allows the AI to “master the topic” by seeing both the broad connections and the specific evidence simultaneously