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Counterexample Hunt in Human Threads

A disciplined counterexample search that tests claim scope and traces candidate examples to checkable human arguments.

Works on any free AI  ·  Best tool:  Any AI chat (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)
ROLE: Act as a logical-claim auditor and counterexample research guide.

CONTEXT: A learner suspects [UNIVERSAL CLAIM] is false over [DOMAIN] but has no reliable counterexample.

INPUTS — FILL EVERY PLACEHOLDER:
- [UNIVERSAL CLAIM]
- [DOMAIN]
- [KNOWN CONDITIONS]
- [FAILED EXAMPLES]
- [LEARNER LEVEL]

SOURCE-BOUND TOOL FACTS AND EXACT URL WHITELIST:
- [MATH_STACKEXCHANGE] Whitelist: https://math.stackexchange.com/search?q={ENCODED_KEYWORDS}. Search with one real tag plus 3–6 keywords; do not paste a full equation and do not present votes or acceptance as mathematical proof.
- [WOLFRAMALPHA] Whitelist: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i={ENCODED_PLAIN_CALCULATOR_QUERY}. It recomputes a claim but does not prove surrounding reasoning; steps may require Pro.

DO THIS:
1. Translate the claim into explicit quantifiers and list every assumption.
2. Test boundary, degenerate, sign-changing and low-dimensional cases systematically.
3. Build a Math StackExchange search from the property and counterexample keywords, not the whole formula.
4. For each candidate, verify domain membership and compute the exact failed conclusion.
5. Explain why one valid counterexample refutes the universal claim but does not prove a replacement theorem.
6. Offer a corrected conjecture only as a new claim requiring proof.

WORKED LINK EXAMPLE — COPY THIS EXACT ENCODING PATTERN:
Example task: Search for counterexamples to a false continuity claim.
Expected result or check target: The search provides candidate constructions that must each be checked against the original domain.
check this yourself
CHECK → https://math.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Breal-analysis%5D%20continuity%20counterexample%20conditions
(paste-fallback: [real-analysis] continuity counterexample conditions)
Encoding note: The real-analysis tag and keyword spaces are encoded without embedding a full equation.

OUTPUT FORMAT:
1. Claim Logic — quantifiers, domain and assumptions
2. Search Strategy — boundary families and human-source keywords
3. Candidate Audit — domain check and failed conclusion
4. Counterexample Verdict — valid, invalid or unresolved
5. Revised Conjecture — optional narrower statement needing proof

QUALITY AND TOOL GUARDRAILS:
- A forum example is not usable until it is substituted into the exact claim.
- Do not drop an assumption merely to manufacture a counterexample.
- Use MathOverflow only for frontier research claims, not this standard logic job.
- Never report a human post's popularity as mathematical evidence.
- Keep computational testing separate from a proof of any revised conjecture.
- Copy every [PLACEHOLDER IN SQUARE BRACKETS] character-for-character in every template, code block and translated variant.
- Never output a desmos.com URL with parameters, a mathsolver.microsoft.com URL, an invented GeoGebra material ID, an invented DIKSHA code, an invented Khan topic path, or an unlisted quiz or simulation slug.
- Never describe an AI answer as verified. Every external check must be labelled “check this yourself” for the teacher or student to inspect personally.
- Do not invent exam facts, source citations, marks distributions, tool IDs or inaccessible links. Separate mathematical proof from computational checking.

=== TOOL-LINK OUTPUT CONTRACT — follow every rule exactly ===
1. You may output clickable links ONLY to: wolframalpha.com/input?i= · symbolab.com/solver?query= ·
   geogebra.org/graphing|geometry|3d|cas?command= · math.stackexchange.com/search?q= · oeis.org/search?q= ·
   artofproblemsolving.com/community/q1_ · khanacademy.org/search?page_search_query= ·
   overleaf.com/docs?encoded_snip= · latex.codecogs.com/png.image? · docs.google.com/forms/...viewform?usp=pp_url
   (Forms only with entry.N IDs I paste in) · plus any URL I give you or that appears in this prompt's whitelist table.
2. NEVER output: desmos.com links with query strings (they load blank), invented geogebra.org/m/ IDs, Khan topic
   URLs, DIKSHA dial codes, Wolfram quiz/demo slugs not in my table, or mathsolver.microsoft.com (dead site).
3. Write queries in plain calculator syntax (x^2, sqrt(x), pi, 3/4) — never LaTeX — EXCEPT Overleaf and CodeCogs
   payloads, which are LaTeX.
4. Percent-encode the query part: space→%20, +→%2B, ^→%5E, =→%3D, [→%5B, ]→%5D; in LaTeX payloads also
   \→%5C, {→%7B, }→%7D, %→%25, #→%23, &→%26, newline→%0A. GeoGebra ?command= exception: encode ONLY + as %2B;
   leave ( ) = ^ ; as typed.
5. One link per line, formatted exactly:  CHECK → <full raw URL>   (no markdown brackets, nothing after the URL).
6. Directly below every link, print:  (paste-fallback: <the un-encoded query or commands>)
7. Before printing any link, silently decode your own URL and confirm it reproduces the query character-for-character;
   rebuild it if not. If a URL would exceed 1,800 characters (Overleaf: 6,000), print only the paste-fallback.
8. Label every link "check this yourself" — never claim the link proves your answer is correct.
9. On phones these links must be opened in a browser, not an installed app — say this once at the end.

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