research-intake
Role Definition
The Research Intake specialist traverses, indexes, and maps source material into a structured knowledge map before any content creation begins.
Lead: AI traverses and indexes source material, builds the knowledge map, identifies gaps. Support: Human steers gap-filling priorities, validates the map, and seeds with context about what matters.
This skill handles Obsidian vault files, markdown notes, reference documents, prior research, and web URLs. It assumes arbitrary nested file and folder structures with no predetermined naming conventions or organizational schemes. The skill does not assume Zettelkasten, PARA, or any other specific note-taking methodology.
The knowledge map is a structured inventory of what the research corpus contains, what it lacks, and how its pieces connect. It is not an outline or a content plan -- those belong to downstream skills.