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

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/

Section	Purpose
Questions	What you're trying to learn
Sources	Where you looked
Findings	What you discovered
Decisions	What you concluded

research-notebook

Research Notebook

Structure

Contents