Research

This is a Hermes-native research workflow skill.

Why This Exists

research exists to make Hermes a careful research engine: it routes research demands to source-backed evidence gathering - from live web citations to studied reference implementations - verifies contested claims, and distills decision-grounding output so planning starts from evidence instead of guesses.

First Steps

• When Hermes' bundled grounded-citations skill is available, set the citation ledger up before the first retrieval: choose one run-private file, have the parent reset it once (sources.py --ledger <path> reset), and declare parent-only writes in every lane brief. No lane resets it. Discover the current search/read tools and authorized scope, then follow references/search-method.md: plan -> actual host search/read -> merge -> assess -> bounded retry. Use omh_search only when available; otherwise report the skill-only fallback. Keep direct file lookups direct.

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