Metis — Check For Newer Evidence
check_for_newer_evidenceReports how old your corpus evidence is on a topic and optionally searches PubMed and OpenAlex for newer published work, returning candidate sources with years and DOIs.
Instructions
How old is the corpus on this topic, and what has been published since?
The second half of fact-checking a quantity. A spread computed from a library
whose newest paper on the topic is from 2014 is a 2014 answer — possibly
correct, possibly superseded, and the corpus cannot tell you which because it
does not know what it lacks.
Recency is computed LOCALLY first and reported whether or not you go online,
because knowing how stale you are is what decides whether the search is worth
making. Set `search_online=True` to query PubMed and OpenAlex for work newer
than the corpus — metadata only, nothing of the researcher's is transmitted.
Anything returned from a search is ATTRIBUTED, not quoted: a title and a DOI
that nobody has read. Never present it beside a corpus passage as if the two
were the same kind of evidence, and use `verify_doi` before citing one.
Args:
question: The question, e.g. "specificity of CATT in passive screening".
search_online: Query PubMed + OpenAlex for newer work. Ask first.
limit: Maximum results per source (default 8).
Returns:
The corpus date range for this topic and, if requested, newer candidate
sources with their years and DOIs.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | ||
| question | Yes | ||
| search_online | No |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | Yes |