sb-grounded

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

1. [source: vault/path.md] —
2. ...

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