research-notebook
Structured research with sources, findings, and decisions.
Installation
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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 |
Contents
| 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/ |
Examples
Read the usage examples in the source repository.
View source ↗Source history
- Indexed on
- 2026-01-20
- Index updated
- 2026-02-02
- Branch
- main
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