narrative-review

name	narrative-review
description	Theory-driven literature review for building arguments and frameworks. Flexible, subjective, and narrative-focused — selects evidence strategically to support a thesis. High web-research budget for blogs, opinion pieces, and industry perspectives. Use when the user is writing a position paper, survey introduction, or constructing a coherent narrative around a research theme.
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Narrative Review

Purpose: Flexible, subjective, theory-driven — build a theoretical argument supported by literature. Not objective coverage, but persuasive framing.

When to use: User is writing a position paper, survey introduction, or needs to construct a coherent narrative around a research theme.

Budget

Base SOP	Target	±10% Range
web-search	80 results	72–88
web-research	15 pages	13–17
paper-overview	50 papers	45–55
paper-search	40 papers	36–44
paper-research	20 papers	18–22

State Ledger

Print this table before each major iteration decision: