Skills: They Said Whaaa

They Said Whaaa? Skill

Credibility and consistency tracking for public figures — ingest transcripts and articles, extract claims, detect contradictions, build position timelines.

Purpose

The they-said-whaaa skill captures what public figures say across sources (YouTube transcripts, news articles) and tracks consistency over time. It extracts explicit claims, flags when a figure contradicts a prior position, and builds a timeline view of their stated positions on a topic.

Useful for journalism, research, and public accountability work.

Prerequisites

• TypeDB running (make db-start)
• uv installed
• Optional: youtube-transcript-api Python package (for YouTube ingestion)

Commands

uv run python .claude/skills/they-said-whaaa/they_said_whaaa.py <command> [args]

Command	What it does
add-figure	Register a public figure (name, role, identifiers)
ingest-article	Ingest a news article (by URL) and associate with a figure
ingest-transcript	Ingest a YouTube transcript (by video ID or URL)
show-source	Display an ingested source and its extracted statements
add-statement	Manually add a statement attributed to a figure
add-claim	Extract and record a specific factual claim from a statement
flag-contradiction	Mark two claims as contradictory
list-figures	List all tracked figures
show-timeline	Display a figure's position timeline on a topic

Typical Workflow

Track a public figure on a topic:

You: Add Senator Jane Smith as a tracked figure
You: Ingest this interview article: https://example.com/senator-smith-interview-2024
You: Ingest this YouTube townhall: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xyz123
You: Extract claims about climate policy from these sources
You: Show me her timeline on climate policy

Detect a contradiction:

You: In 2022 she said carbon taxes are "essential".
     In 2024 she said they are "counterproductive".
     Flag these as contradictory.

Schema

• tsw-figure — a tracked public figure (domain-thing)
• tsw-source — an ingested source (article or transcript, an artifact subtype)
• tsw-statement — a statement attributed to a figure in a source
• tsw-claim — a specific factual claim extracted from a statement
• tsw-contradiction — a relation linking two contradictory claims

Dashboard

The skill contributes a They Said Whaaa? dashboard at /they-said-whaaa (port 3001 in deployed mode):

• Figure list with source counts
• Statement browser per figure
• Contradiction tracker
• Position timeline per topic