research-compendium — Archive Everything, Summarize 1:1, Synthesize Once
Convention: see conventions/brain-first.md for the lookup chain. Phase 1 is literally brain-first: search the brain before the open web — the corpus may already be partly ingested.
Convention: see conventions/quality.md for citation rules, quote fidelity, and back-link enforcement.
Convention: see _brain-filing-rules.md — everything this skill writes files under
research/per the research rule.
What this is
Turn a research question into a permanent brain asset: find everything → archive every primary source → summarize each 1:1 → synthesize one self-contained compendium.
This is distinct from data-research (which extracts structured data into
trackers). This skill produces prose knowledge synthesis — a definitive,
fast-to-read, comprehensive reference page backed by an archived source corpus.
Use when the user says "research X, read everything, save the sources, summarize each, and write me a compendium / definitive guide / everything-you-need-to-know doc." If the ask i…
