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Write substantive research notes — comprehensive reference documents that teach something meaningful about a topic.
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Manage a bookmark research pipeline — fetch new bookmarks, triage against research interests, spawn parallel deep-dive agents, and review results. Use when the user says "bookmark sync", "check bookmarks", "review bookmarks", "triage bookmarks", "deep dive bookmarks", "run bookmark pipeline", or asks about setting up the bookmark system.
Update project context files when reality has drifted from docs. Use when a milestone is hit, the plan has changed, CLAUDE.md feels stale, or the user says "update the docs", "sync context", "evolve context". Walks through ledger, plan, CLAUDE.md, README, and architecture docs.
Create a new project with consistent structure and documentation. Use when the user says "new project" or "start a project" or when building something new. Sets up for agent-assisted development from day one.
Turn any question into an automated feedback loop. The pattern — design a sensor (eval), an actuator (code the agent modifies), and launch an evolutionary optimization loop. Works on any (code → run → score) problem — model training, software optimization, prompt tuning, eval design, data pipelines, agent harnesses. The eval function IS the research.
Mine session logs for skill usage patterns, corrections, and failures to propose improvements. Use when the user says "improve skills", "review skill usage", "what have we learned about our skills", or periodically to evolve skills based on real usage data.
Design and improve harnesses — the environments, constraints, feedback loops, and control systems that make AI agents do reliable work. Use when setting up a new project for agent-assisted development, diagnosing why agents are producing bad output, reviewing architectural constraints, or thinking about how to scale human oversight of agent workflows. Synthesizes OpenAI's harness engineering principles with cybernetic control theory.
| name | write-research |
| description | Write substantive research notes — comprehensive reference documents that teach something meaningful about a topic. |
Write substantive research notes - comprehensive reference documents that teach something meaningful about a topic.
A research note should be a substantive read. Someone should come away understanding something they didn't before.
It has a point of view. Not just "here's what exists" but "here's how to think about this." Analysis, not inventory.
It synthesizes. Connects ideas across sources. Finding X implies Y for approach Z.
It's specific. Concrete examples, actual numbers, quotes. Vague gestures don't teach.
It's honest about limitations. What don't we know? Where does the approach fall short? What questions remain?
Structure emerges from content. The topic dictates organization, not a template. A methods survey looks different from a paper review looks different from a conceptual analysis.
| Logs | Notes |
|---|---|
| What we did | What we know |
| Dated, chronological | Topic-focused, living |
