| name | research-brief-action-engine |
| description | Distill messy research inputs into a clean executive brief with actions, opportunities, risks, and recommended next steps. Use when reviewing batches of links, videos, articles, transcripts, market scans, or trend dumps and the goal is to convert raw information into decisions, priorities, or content opportunities. |
Research Brief Action Engine
Use this skill to go from raw inputs to a decision-ready brief.
Workflow
- Classify the input.
- Health, AI tooling, business model, content trend, design inspiration, or investment/opportunity.
- Extract the minimum useful truths.
- What happened
- Why it matters
- What changes because of it
- Score the opportunity.
- Immediate revenue potential
- Strategic relevance
- Ease of execution
- Reusability as content
- Produce the brief in decision order.
- Recommendation first
- Evidence second
- Actions third
- End with concrete next steps.
- Prefer 1–3 moves, not a giant list.
Output Format
Bottom Line
2–4 sentences.
What Matters
3–7 bullets.
Opportunity
What we can do with this.
Risks / Caveats
What could make this a bad bet.
Recommended Next Actions
Numbered list.
Style Rules
- Lead with the answer.
- Kill filler.
- Separate signal from novelty.
- Say "not worth it" when appropriate.
- Prefer money, leverage, or strategic clarity over interesting-but-useless facts.
Use With Other Skills
- Hand health/longevity outputs to
dr-nora-content-engine or lux-reddit-protocol-writer.
- Hand design inspiration outputs to
styleai-landing-builder.
References
- Read
references/scoring.md to score opportunities consistently.
- Read
references/evals.md before finalizing major research summaries.
