awesome-engineering-research

Canonical spec for how research entries, sources, tools, topics, and pipelines are structured in this repo. Use whenever adding to INDEX/, when writing under topics/, when authoring or modifying a pipeline skill, or when validating a contribution against the standard. Defines frontmatter schema, identifier rules, linking conventions, status and confidence lifecycles, and provenance requirements.

Re-classify rows in INDEX/sources.md and INDEX/tools.md that landed in the `unsorted` bucket — either with `category=unsorted` or `kind=unsorted`. Re-applies the categories.md vocabulary and the kind heuristic with a fresh attempt, using GitHub topics, description, README excerpts. Use on demand or on a slow weekly schedule to drain the unsorted backlog.

Diff your current GitHub stars against INDEX/tools.md, emit a PR adding newly-starred repos and flagging unstarred ones. Also re-checks staleness (last_pushed > 3 years or archived) and moves stale repos to _archived/tools.md. Use daily via the star-sweep GitHub Action.

Add a new article, video, talk, paper, book, podcast, or repo to the corresponding INDEX/ table with correctly-shaped frontmatter, derived labels, validated URL, and provenance. Use whenever the user wants to add reading material or a new tool to the awesome list. Wraps the row shapes defined in `.claude/templates/{source,repo}.md`.

Sweep INDEX/sources.md (and optionally INDEX/tools.md) for dead links, moving entries with confirmed-dead URLs to _archived/ with tombstones (last_seen, reason, optional wayback link). Use weekly via the link-check GitHub Action, or on demand when the user wants a manual sweep. Never hard-deletes.

Parse a captured docs corpus into structured concept, API, tool, and entity extracts with frontmatter, plus relation edges, and emit the knowledge graph in Mermaid and JSON forms. Use after scrape-firecrawl when a topic needs structured semantic extraction beyond the URL link graph.

Scan configured release feeds for new libraries, frameworks, and tools in the user's interest areas (Rust, distributed systems, observability, build tooling, FP, DevOps, knowledge-graph / RAG). Append candidates to TRIAGE.md for manual review. Never auto-adds to INDEX/. Use daily via the new-releases-triage GitHub Action, or on demand.

Capture every page of a target docs site via Firecrawl into a topic's 20-sources/ directory as cleaned markdown plus link metadata. Use when starting a new topic that needs a docs corpus as its source-of-truth.

Build the URL link graph from a previously captured docs corpus, emitting Mermaid and JSON forms. Use after scrape-firecrawl when a topic needs sitemap visualisation or hub-and-leaf analysis of a docs site.