research

name	research
description	Research a topic for an LLM Wiki vault. Use whenever the user invokes `/research`, asks for a sourced deep dive beyond the current wiki, or asks to discover external sources and integrate the resulting knowledge into the wiki.

Research for an LLM Wiki

Research fills a scoped gap in the wiki, then preserves the evidence and its useful conclusions. It combines query, source collection, and ingestion.

Workflow

1. Read wiki-purpose.md and wiki-schema.md; decline or narrow requests outside the vault's scope.

2. Run the query workflow first to determine what is known and define a precise research question.

3. Gather 5–10 high-quality sources. Prefer primary materials, official documentation, papers, and authoritative recent analysis. Seek independent confirmation for important claims.

4. Save each collected source under sources/YYYY-MM-DD/ before analysis. Include provenance when creating a research note:

   ---
   title: Source Title
   url: https://original-url
   author: Author Name
   date: YYYY-MM-DD
   retrieved: YYYY-MM-DD
   type: article | paper | documentation | blog | video-transcript
   ---
   

   Treat files in sources/ as immutable after saving.

5. Apply the ingest workflow to each source: update focused, attributable wiki pages and add wikilinks rather than compiling a detached report only.

6. Present a final report with this structure:

   ## Research Report: Topic
   ### Question
   ### Findings
   ### Sources Added
   ### Wiki Pages Created/Updated
   ### Remaining Gaps
   

7. Create a query-synthesis page only when the cross-source conclusion is genuinely new and well supported. Then append a research entry to wiki-log.md and run llm-wiki sync.

Guardrails

• Keep the research question bounded; list tangents as follow-ups.
• Attribute every material claim to saved sources or cited wiki pages.
• Flag outdated evidence for fast-moving topics.
• Never invent a source, citation, or conclusion.