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Validate and prioritize starting papers for snowball surveys. Evaluates which seeds will yield the richest citation traces based on citation count, recency, and network position.

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name	seed-selection
description	Validate and prioritize starting papers for snowball surveys. Evaluates which seeds will yield the richest citation traces based on citation count, recency, and network position.
execution	subagent
prompt	./prompt.md
input	seed_papers (string), context (string)

Seed Selection

Validate and prioritize starting papers for snowball surveys.

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Subagent — spawned via subagent-spawning/spawn-agent skill.

Why Subagent

Seed evaluation requires analyzing citation networks and making strategic judgments about which papers will yield the richest traces. Dedicated context for this analytical work.

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