Consolidate — promote research into a canonical article

This skill is pack guidance. The platform /open-knowledge skill (read/write/preview/linking/grounding rules) still governs every markdown operation — this layers the procedure on top.

Promote existing research on a topic into a canonical article under articles/. Canonical, not provisional — the output is the source of truth for future agents, not a snapshot of uncertainty.

The content directory is the resolved content.dir — read it with config({ key: 'content.dir' }) if you don't already know it. Paths below are relative to it.

Legacy reads: Existing research and articles may use status: provisional / canonical, and existing sources: may contain string paths. Treat those as draft / stable and source resources. Do not mass-rewrite them; new writes use the OKF forms below.

STOP gate: has a decision actually been made?

Consolidation is promotion, not creation. If the team hasn't decided, the resulting "canonical" article lies about the team's state of understanding — future agents read it, act on it, and the false certainty compounds.

Before any write, confirm out loud with the user:

• What is the actual decision? (e.g., "We chose Yjs for CRDT" — not "Yjs is one option")
• What alternatives were considered and rejected? (these go in "Alternatives considered," not as equals)
• What's the rationale the team used? (not your reconstruction from sources)