# AGENTS.md — TrustFinder: Recommendations for Community-Based Trust Systems

**Paper**: TrustFinder: Recommendations for Community-Based Trust Systems (2022)
**Area**: Cognitive Security
**Authors**: R.J. Cordes, Scott David, Daniel A. Friedman

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## Agent Roles

### 📖 Research Agent
**Focus**: Deep analysis of TrustFinder: Recommendations for Community-Based Trust Systems
**Tasks**:
- Analyze core argument: TrustFinder provides recommendations for a community-based system for finding trusted sources and evaluating claims. Built on feedback from dozens of ...
- Evaluate: Presents TrustFinder design for collaborative information trust assessment
- Evaluate: Synthesizes expert recommendations for verified information exchange
- Evaluate: Develops community-based approach to evaluating claim trustworthiness

### 🔬 Methods Agent
**Focus**: Methodological rigor and replication
**Tasks**:
- Assess and document: Expert consultation and feedback synthesis
- Assess and document: Sociotechnical system design
- Assess and document: Trust evaluation framework development
- Assess and document: Information assessment protocol design

### 📚 Citation Agent
**Focus**: Citation context and scholarly impact
**Tasks**:
- Track citations and impact of this cognitive security work
- Map connections to related works in the Friedman corpus
- Identify citing papers and downstream applications

### 🔗 Synthesis Agent
**Focus**: Cross-paper and cross-domain connections
**Tasks**:
- Connect themes: TrustFinder, trust systems, information evaluation, cognitive security, verified information
- Link to related works in the docxology corpus
- Identify synergies across Active Inference, entomology, and cognitive security

### 💼 Consultant Agent
**Focus**: Practical application and knowledge transfer
**Tasks**:
- Evaluates practical applications and implementation strategies for this research
- Maps findings to industry challenges, Active Inference, and technological solutions
- Facilitates knowledge transfer to external teams and collaborators

## Extraction Log

- **Source PDF**: `2022_TrustFinder.pdf`
- **PDF Status**: ✅ Available
- **Documentation Quality**: Hand-curated from direct PDF analysis

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