cps-topic-selection — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited cps-topic-selection (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
CPS publishes work in comparative politics — democratization & regimes, political institutions, political behavior & participation, ethnic politics & conflict, comparative political economy, and parties & elections — where the contribution is comparative in design or in the portability of the claim. The first job is to confirm the question earns a place in a comparative-politics journal, not a single-country area journal and not a general poli-sci flagship.
identify the claim? "Why do some countries/regions/periods do X while others do Y?" is the CPS question form. A snapshot of one country at one time has none.
should also operate. If it only makes sense in your one country, it is area studies, not CPS.
ethnic mobilization, redistribution, electoral behavior). A comparativist outside your region should see why the answer matters.
(World Politics / International Organization), not UK-general (British Journal of Political Science). See the sibling guard below.
A single case can fit if it is a case of something general: a hard/least-likely test of a comparative theory, a deviant case that exposes scope conditions, or the source of a mechanism you argue travels. Say what the case is a case of, and to which population the claim generalizes (hand off to cps-research-design).
【Comparative puzzle】one sentence, with the variation that identifies it
【Cases / units / period】and the comparison logic
【Portable mechanism】+ a named second setting it should travel to
【CP literature engaged】the debate it speaks to
【Venue check】CPS vs. APSR/AJPS/WP/IO/BJPS — why CPS
【Next】cps-literature-positioning../../resources/exemplars/library.md — verified CPS papers by subfield × method../../resources/official-source-map.md — CPS scope and aims~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.