| 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
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Read wiki-purpose.md and wiki-schema.md; decline or narrow requests
outside the vault's scope.
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Run the query workflow first to determine what is known and define a
precise research question.
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Gather 5–10 high-quality sources. Prefer primary materials, official
documentation, papers, and authoritative recent analysis. Seek independent
confirmation for important claims.
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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.
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Apply the ingest workflow to each source: update focused, attributable
wiki pages and add wikilinks rather than compiling a detached report only.
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Present a final report with this structure:
## Research Report: Topic
### Question
### Findings
### Sources Added
### Wiki Pages Created/Updated
### Remaining Gaps
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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- Flag outdated evidence for fast-moving topics.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.
