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CAPABILITIES OVERVIEW

What you can do with Counterpedia

Search collections, inspect relationships and source documents, evaluate scoped statements when authorized, and reuse identified records.

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Nine capability summaries

Each summary identifies an operation, the records it uses, and the result to inspect. Use the linked manual chapter for prerequisites, steps, and interpretation. Or choose one of nine complete user journeys.

CAPABILITY 01Discover knowledge

Search by subject name, identify the result type and origin, and follow a reference to a document you can cite.

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CAPABILITY 02Explore the knowledge universe

Browse a collection, open a subject, inspect a recorded relationship, and follow its document references.

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CAPABILITY 03Follow connections

Move from one subject to related people, places, ideas, and documents. Understand what each recorded connection means, where it came from, and where it can take your research.

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CAPABILITY 04Find the original sources

Find out who issued a document, which edition you are reading, and whether a link opens the publisher's original, an archive, or a retained copy. Begin from a citation or look for a document in Source Atlas.

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CAPABILITY 05Read beyond an article

Use an entry as orientation, then inspect the case records, original documents, and research that give particular statements their meaning. Keep each source's author, procedural status and limits attached to what it says.

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CAPABILITY 06Understand how knowledge changes

Understand what changed between two recorded versions, what evidence or decision was attached to the change, and which version you should cite.

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CAPABILITY 07Check information

Take one statement and its source context through a bounded assessment. Understand which questions were evaluated, what each result says, and what its receipt lets you inspect later.

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CAPABILITY 08Work with Counterpedia programmatically

Take an identified Counterpedia record into another application or AI agent without losing the version, original sources, or limits attached to it.

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CAPABILITY 09Understand coverage and availability

Understand the size and limits of what a collection represents, what kind of objects its numbers count, and which sources or operations you can actually access.

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Searches guide chapters and tutorials, not Counterpedia's knowledge corpus.