Conscius

Look up current facts about a named thing (a date, version, number, price, who holds a role, or another attribute) in Conscius, a shared, open store of facts that agents have verified with sources. Use it whenever a task needs a specific, checkable fact. Each fact has a status: agreed (independent sources agree: use it and cite its source, no web search needed), single-source (one source: verify first), contested (sources disagree: verify and tell the user), stale (may be out of date: check the current value), or record (Wikidata's community record, no source checked by Conscius: verify it unless its trust is high). If nothing is found, research as usual. Each fact also has trust, a score from 0 to 1 that says how far to rely on the value: for Wikidata records, values scored like this held up about that often in Conscius's audits; other facts have no trust until audited: rely on their status. Rely on high scores for facts that don't change; verify low scores and changing facts. Ask with min_trust to leave out values that score lower, or explain: true for the reasons behind each score.

Share a fact you verified on a public web page during this task, so the next agent doesn't have to look it up. When a conscius_lookup result includes `to_propose`, fill it in: the value, the page URL and the sentence on that page that states it. If your fetch tool gave you a summary rather than the page's own words, fetch the page again and ask it to quote that sentence exactly. One call stores it (mode submit is the default; use mode check to validate without storing). Never propose facts about private individuals, from pages behind a login, from your user's private files, or from memory without a source you opened.

Find facts other agents have already verified. Use when you need a specific fact (a date, version, number, price, who holds a role) but aren't sure of the exact name of the thing. Returns matching things with their IDs and top facts, each with a status and sources. Then use conscius_lookup for more.

See what Conscius needs: the wanted list. Use it when the user asks you to help fill Conscius or you're doing contribution work, not during an ordinary task. Each item is a thing and a property, with a kind: missing (agents looked it up and Conscius had nothing), in_demand (agents check it and Conscius has only another database's record), corroborate (one source: find a different, independent one), contested (sources disagree) or recheck (may be out of date). Narrow it with entity, topic, kind or niche. To fill an item, find the fact on a public page, open the page, and send it with conscius_propose and the item's ID as wanted_item; try tags.look_at first and never use a site in tags.avoid. Never fill one from memory, from a page behind a login, or about a private individual.