evidence-based-reviews
Produce honest product reviews and buying guides without fabricated first-hand experience, using disclosed evidence tiers: verified specs, owner-experience synthesis at scale, expert triangulation, and hands-on only when true. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write product reviews or buying guides without hands-on access, set up a review methodology, add evidence disclosure to review content, align reviews with Google's reviews system or FTC affiliate disclosure expectations, or decide when Review and Product schema are honest to use. Triggers on product review, buying guide, best-of
Profile →npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill evidence-based-reviews --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Evidence-Based Reviews Produce product reviews and buying guides whose claims match their evidence. The method is evidence synthesis with a disclosed basis, and one rule anchors everything: never claim hands-on time that did not happen. Most review sites fail this rule quietly. "We tested" appears above content assembled from spec sheets, and readers have learned to smell it. The honest alternative is stronger, not weaker: synthesis of owner experience at scale, verified specifications, and triangulated expert sources is demonstrable original analysis, and disclosing it builds the trust that fabricated testing destroys. --- ## When to use - Writing product reviews or buying guides when hands-on access is partial or absent - Setting up the review methodology for a new review or affiliate site - Adding evidence disclosure to existing review content - Auditing review content for claims its evidence cannot support - Deciding whether Review or Product schema is honest for a given piece - Aligning review content with Google's reviews system and FTC disclosure expectations ## When NOT to use - General content writing and editing (use `content-and-copy`; this skill governs the evidence a
- When to use
- When NOT to use
- Required inputs
- The framework: one rule, four evidence tiers
- Tier 1: verified manufacturer specs
- Tier 2: owner-experience synthesis at scale
- Tier 3: expert-source triangulation
- Tier 4: hands-on, only when true
- The methodology block
- Structure discipline the method implies
- Google reviews-system alignment
- FTC alignment
- Schema judgment
- Workflow
What does the evidence-based-reviews skill do?
Produce honest product reviews and buying guides without fabricated first-hand experience, using disclosed evidence tiers: verified specs, owner-experience synthesis at scale, expert triangulation, and hands-on only when true. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write product reviews or buying guides without hands-on access, set up a review methodology, add evidence disclosure to review content, align reviews with Google's reviews system or FTC affiliate disclosure expectations, or decide when Review and Product schema are honest to use. Triggers on product review, buying guide, best-of
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill evidence-based-reviews --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From rampstackco/claude-skills, a repository with 515 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.