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

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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/