Unattended, scheduled monitoring of external sources (arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, bioRxiv/medRxiv, GDELT, Hacker News) for operator-selected current-events DOMAINS (monitoringDomains[], weighted, momentum-ranked, digest output) or for a research topic (the topic-bound special case), gated end to end through a mandatory human Editorial Gate before anything publishes. An OPTIONAL methodology pack (enable the `continuous-monitor` pack AND configure a domain or a topic's continuousMonitoring block). Use this skill when the user wants to enable, inspect, or manually run continuous monitoring for a domain or topic, review a run's digest or candidate recommendations, or check the Continuity Log for a skipped/failed source. Triggers on 'continuous monitoring', 'monitor this domain', 'monitor this topic', 'monitoring digest', 'schedule research monitoring', 'check for new sources', 'run the monitoring pipeline', 'review monitoring recommendations'.
Render surviving research findings into a publishable blog post through the typed findings-to-artifact contract. A first-class harness output (not a pack). Use this skill when the user wants to turn research into a blog post, publish findings, draft an article from the corpus, or write up what the research found. Triggers on 'publish blog', 'blog post from research', 'write up these findings', 'draft an article', 'turn this into a post'.
Render surviving research findings into a book chapter through the typed findings-to-artifact contract. An OPTIONAL channel pack (enable the `book` pack to use it), supporting the full genre range. Use this skill when the user wants to author a book, write a chapter from the research, turn the corpus into long-form, or build a manuscript. Triggers on 'write a book', 'author a chapter', 'book from research', 'turn this into a chapter', 'long-form from the corpus', 'manuscript'.
Create, validate, inspect, and convert MIF ontology definition files. Use when the user asks to: create a new ontology, scaffold an ontology, validate an ontology YAML, inspect ontology contents (entities, traits, relationships, namespaces, discovery patterns), convert between YAML and JSON formats, convert to JSON-LD, or get guidance on MIF ontology structure. Triggers on: "ontology", "create ontology", "validate ontology", "inspect ontology", "convert ontology", "ontology schema", "entity types", "traits", "discovery patterns", "namespace hierarchy".
Render a research topic's entire surviving findings corpus into a COMPLETE Diátaxis documentation set — a reference page per finding, a per-dimension explanation, how-to, and guided tutorial, plus landing/index pages — every page carrying MIF Level-1 frontmatter and a diataxis_type marker. An OPTIONAL channel pack (enable the `diataxis` pack). Use this skill when the user wants documentation for a research topic, a full docs set from the findings, or to publish the corpus as Diátaxis docs. Triggers on 'diataxis docs', 'documentation channel', 'render docs from research', 'document the findings', 'reference and explanation docs', 'generate the docs site'.
Render a topic's surviving findings into an AI-ready, agent-executable architecture spec. A genre-shaping of the artifact -> Markdown pipeline (not a new mechanism) — finding_refs become grounded evidence sections, the goal's completion checks become EARS acceptance criteria, and the artifact sections become the document structure. Use to turn research into a buildable spec a downstream coding agent executes.
Search the MIF research index — find findings by free-text query or by structured filters over the index fields (dimension, tags, namespace, verdict). Use this skill when the user wants to find research findings, look up what is known about a subject, query findings, or asks 'what do I have on X', 'find findings about Y', 'search research for Z', 'what research', 'what findings'. Reads the projected index, not raw tag files.
Build, refresh, and query the MIF-native knowledge graph — the typed substrate of concepts and entities (all urn:mif: ids) linked by MIF relationships and mentions. Use this skill when the user asks about relationships between findings, what connects two concepts or entities, entity overlap, or wants a visual map. Triggers on 'what connects', 'how are these related', 'show graph', 'knowledge graph', 'visualize research', 'rebuild the graph', 'entity overlap', 'shared between'. With --concordance, the same verbs operate on the corpus-wide ontological spine spanning ALL topics (build/validate/query reports/concordance.json) — triggers on 'concordance', 'across topics', 'whole corpus', 'cross-topic', 'ontological spine', 'world view of knowledge'. The graph is derived from MIF entities and relations, never from tags.