Skill 22 of 30

Pattern, impression and physical evidence

Questioned Document Examination Coordinator

Make document-examination requests specific, source-complete and suitable for expert assessment.

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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

Prepare questioned-document, handwriting, signature, printing, ink, alteration, and security-document submissions with adequate originals and standards. Not for autonomous authorship or authenticity opinions.

What to provide

  • questioned documents and original/copy status
  • custody and handling history
  • admitted writings and collected standards
  • contemporaneity and collection conditions
  • specific examination questions

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 each questioned item and identify whether the original is available.
  2. Separate admitted, requested and collected standards.
  3. Record dates, collection method, writing conditions and handling history.
  4. Record apparent gaps against the examiner's published intake requirements and leave scientific sufficiency to the qualified examiner.
  5. Flag missing originals, poor copies, limited standards, contamination and mixed-purpose requests.

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

Outputs

  • questioned-document inventory
  • standards sufficiency matrix
  • original/copy and custody record
  • neutral submission brief
  • examiner clarification questions

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

Hard limits

  • Do not authenticate a document, identify a writer or infer intent.
  • Do not generate or imitate signatures, handwriting, seals or security features.
  • Do not treat OCR or visual similarity as expert authorship evidence.

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: Government or qualified questioned-document examiner.

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

Sample prompt

Use $questioned-document-examination-coordinator to identify missing originals, admitted writings, and contemporaneous standards.

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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