| name | sb-grounded |
| description | Answer a research question using closed-corpus grounded reasoning with evidence chains and citations. Use for deep research questions that need traceable evidence, cross-document synthesis, or when the user asks to "research", "investigate", or "dig into" something thoroughly. |
| when_to_use | Trigger when the user uses words like "research", "investigate", "find evidence", "what does the literature say", "dig into", or when a simple vault search would be insufficient and multi-hop reasoning is needed. |
| allowed-tools | Bash(.venv/bin/sb grounded *) |
| argument-hint | <research question> |
Grounded Research Answer
Answer the following question using multi-step closed-corpus retrieval:
Question
$ARGUMENTS
How to answer
Call secondbrain_grounded_answer with the question. This runs a KARL-style
evidence loop (up to 6 retrieval steps) before synthesising a cited answer.
If the MCP tool is unavailable, fall back to:
.venv/bin/sb grounded answer "$ARGUMENTS" --json 2>/dev/null
Output format
Answer
<direct, cited response>
Evidence chain
- [source: vault/path.md] —
- ...
Confidence
- High / Medium / Low — with reason
- Gaps: what the vault doesn't cover
Suggested next steps
- What to ingest to fill the gaps
- Related questions to explore
