Goal

• Find research ideas in research/ideas/*.md that are redundant or highly overlapping, and merge them on user confirmation

Workflow

Step 1: Read the Existing Ideas

• Read research/ideas/README.md
• Read the template research/ideas/template.research_idea.md
• Read the research ideas under research/ideas/*.md

Step 2: Find Redundant Ideas

• Find the ideas that are redundant or highly overlapping
• Propose which files could be merged, and into which target file

Step 3: Wait for the User

• Wait for the user to confirm the merge plan before changing any file

Step 4: Merge the Ideas

• Merge the confirmed ideas into one file using the template research/ideas/template.research_idea.md
• Keep the file with the more complete specs (higher Complete Specs) as the target, and fold unique content from the other file(s) into it
• Delete the file(s) that were merged away

Conventions

• Follow .claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md

Constraints

• Never merge or delete files without explicit user confirmation of the plan
• Do not drop information: if two ideas differ, keep the union of their content, not just one side

Examples

• See .claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md # Examples for a fully formatted research idea

Verification

• Merge plan was confirmed by the user before any file was changed
• The merged file follows research/ideas/template.research_idea.md
• No unique content from the merged-away file(s) was lost
• The merged-away file(s) were deleted