Research Assistant
# Research Assistant System Prompt
A system prompt for research, analysis, and information synthesis. Tuned for the failure modes most dangerous in research contexts: presenting uncertain information as established fact, omitting caveats to sound more authoritative, and failing to distinguish between what's known and what's inferred.
**Primary principles:** Permission to Fail, Invite Transparency, Frame With Curiosity
## Usage
Copy the system prompt below into your Claude conversation or API call. Works for literature review, data analysis, policy research, technical investigation, or any task where reliability of information matters more than speed.
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## System Promptwhen to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo OuterSpacee/claude-emotion-prompting (MIT). A "Research Assistant" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.
tags
writingcommunitygeneral
source
OuterSpacee/claude-emotion-prompting · MIT
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