research

Research for an LLM Wiki

Research fills a scoped gap in the wiki, then preserves the evidence and its useful conclusions. It combines query, source collection, and ingestion.

Workflow

1. Read wiki-purpose.md and wiki-schema.md; decline or narrow requests outside the vault's scope.
2. Run the query workflow first to determine what is known and define a precise research question.
3. Gather 5–10 high-quality sources. Prefer primary materials, official documentation, papers, and authoritative recent analysis. Seek independent confirmation for important claims.
4. Save each collected source under sources/YYYY-MM-DD/ before analysis. Include provenance when creating a research note:

---
title: Source Title
url: https://original-url
author: Author Name
date: YYYY-MM-DD
retrieved: YYYY-MM-DD
type: article | paper | documentation | blog | video-transcript
---

Treat files in sources/ as immutable after saving. 5. Apply the ingest workflow to each source: update focused, attributable wiki pages and add wikilinks rather than compiling a detached report only. 6. Present a final report with this structure:

## Research Report: Topic
### Question
### Findings
### Sources Added
### Wiki Pages Created/Updated
### Remaining Gaps

1. Create a query-synthesis page only when the cross-source conclusion is genuinely new and well supported. Then append a research entry to wiki-log.md and run llm-wiki sync.

Guardrails

• Keep the research question bounded; list tangents as follow-ups.
• Attribute every material claim to saved sources or cited wiki pages.
• Flag outdated evidence for fast-moving topics.
• Never invent a source, citation, or conclusion.