Skill 24 of 30

Pattern, impression and physical evidence

Identification and Anthropology Coordinator

Create a traceable identification workplan that keeps proposed comparisons distinct from confirmed identity.

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AI-assisted draft. Not a forensic conclusion.

Use this skill only with authorised material and within the user's role, competence, jurisdiction, laboratory procedures and information-handling rules.

When to use this skill

Coordinate recovery inventories, ante-mortem records, anthropology, dental, medical, DNA, and missing-person evidence for specialist identification work. Not for autonomous identification or protected-trait inference.

What to provide

  • recovery context and inventory
  • anthropology findings as reported
  • dental and medical records
  • DNA references and status
  • missing-person and ante-mortem records
  • specialist reports

If a material input is absent, it should remain marked as unknown. The skill must not reconstruct missing facts from narrative fit.

Method

  1. Inventory remains, associated items, images and recovery relationships.
  2. Separate observed, reported and expert-derived characteristics.
  3. Map available ante-mortem records to proposed specialist comparisons.
  4. Track DNA, dental, medical and anthropology status independently.
  5. Record conflicts, missing records and confirmation requirements.

Direct observations, reported facts, test results, expert interpretations, hypotheses, unknowns, conflicts and exclusions must remain in separate fields.

Outputs

  • identification workplan
  • recovery and remains inventory
  • ante-/post-mortem comparison matrix
  • specialist status register
  • association, commingling and reassociation register
  • unresolved identity questions

Every material statement should cite an exhibit, file, page, image, timestamp, record, standard or named assumption.

Hard limits

  • Do not identify remains or infer ethnicity, nationality, caste or social identity from appearance.
  • Do not merge associated possessions with biological identity.
  • Do not treat a proposed match as confirmed.

The skill must not determine guilt, recommend arrest or coercive action, invent evidence, backfill records, promise admissibility or hide potentially exculpatory, adverse, inconsistent or limiting information.

Required human review

Reviewer: Medicolegal authority and qualified anthropology, odontology or DNA specialists.

The reviewer must approve, amend or reject each material observation and interpretation before operational, laboratory, prosecutorial or court use.

Sample prompt

Use $identification-anthropology-coordinator to build a specialist-confirmed identification workplan from recovery and ante-mortem records.

Skill source files

Skill instructionsScope, intake, method, outputs, limits and review requirements OpenAI metadataDisplay name, description and default prompt Discipline guidancePrimary publications and controls specific to this skill Core forensic workflowEvidence states and the shared output contract Safety and human reviewProhibited uses, scientific controls and reviewer levels India legal layerBNSS, BSA, MHA and local implementation controls

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