Research Notebook Skill

Research Notebook

Structured research with sources, findings, and decisions.

Track investigations and capture knowledge.

[!TIP] LEARN stage of play-learn-lift. Where patterns emerge from exploration.

Structure

| Section | Purpose | |---------|---------| | Questions | What you're trying to learn | | Sources | Where you looked | | Findings | What you discovered | | Decisions | What you concluded |

| File | Purpose | |------|---------| | SKILL.md | Full protocol documentation | | NOTEBOOK.yml.tmpl | Notebook template | | SOURCES.yml.tmpl | Sources template |

Example

research:
  topic: "LLM context management strategies"
  
  questions:
    - "How do other systems handle token budgets?"
    - "What summarization approaches exist?"
    
  sources:
    - url: "paper-on-context.pdf"
      relevance: "Direct answer to Q1"
      
  findings:
    - "Sliding window is most common"
    - "Hierarchical summaries preserve more"
    
  decisions:
    - "Use tiered hot/cold approach"

The Intertwingularity

Research-notebook is the LEARN stage of play-learn-lift — find patterns.

graph LR
    RN[📓 research-notebook] -->|LEARN stage of| PLL[🎮📚🚀 play-learn-lift]
    RN -->|distills to| SUM[📝 summarize]
    RN -->|sources from| SL[📜 session-log]
    RN -->|informs| SS[👯 sister-script]
    
    DB[🔧 debugging] -->|uses| RN
    AP[⚔️ adventure] -->|evidence in| RN

Dovetails With

Sister Skills

| Skill | Relationship | |-------|--------------| | play-learn-lift/ | Research IS the LEARN stage | | session-log/ | Source material from PLAY | | summarize/ | Compress findings | | sister-script/ | Research feeds automation | | debugging/ | Research supports hypothesis tracking | | adventure/ | Evidence collection | | adversarial-committee/ | Multiple perspectives on research questions | | rubric/ | Criteria for evaluating sources and findings |

Protocol Symbols

| Symbol | Link | |--------|------| | PLAY-LEARN-LIFT | PROTOCOLS.yml | | PRESERVE-JOURNEY | PROTOCOLS.yml |

Navigation

| Direction | Destination | |-----------|-------------| | ⬆️ Up | skills/ | | ⬆️⬆️ Root | Project Root | | 🎮 Sister | play-learn-lift/ | | 📝 Sister | summarize/ |

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