Research Department

This is a Hermes-native research-department workflow skill.

Why This Exists

research-department exists so Hermes users can start complex research-ops patterns without manually designing profiles, cron, knowledge storage, synthesis tooling, and delivery glue, while OMH keeps every runtime claim observed-only.

Do Not Use When

• The user only needs a one-off current-source lookup; use omh-web-research for one cited round, or ulw-research for a reference-implementation study with a depth budget.
• The user only needs a one-off business synthesis; use omh-research-brief.
• The request is pure scheduling with no source collection or synthesis; use omh-automation-blueprint.
• The user asks for coding implementation; prepare a selected executor/runtime handoff after the research plan is accepted.
• The request is one news watch over named companies, or a scheduled run of a watch that already exists, with no knowledge store, synthesis tool, or briefing lanes to set up, and Hermes' bundled competitor-news-monitor skill is available; load that skill.
• The user wants a one-off paper search by topic, author, category, or paper id rather than a recurring paper review, and Hermes' bundled arxiv skill is available; load that skill.

Examples