Grounded Source QA

Turn arbitrary local Markdown or text files into a traceable evidence base for answering, synthesis, comparison, writing, and persona simulation.

The Skill carries the workflow and retrieval engine. The user's corpus stays outside the Skill.

Start with the source contract

Identify the exact files or directories the user placed in scope.

• Accept Markdown, plain text, transcripts, meeting notes, exported web pages, and parsed documents
• Convert PDF, Office, images, audio, or video to Markdown/text with an appropriate parser before retrieval
• Keep the original files unchanged
• Do not silently add web knowledge, model memory, or unrelated workspace files
• State any source-access limitation that materially affects the answer

Read references/source-preparation.md when the corpus needs conversion, page markers, transcript metadata, or cleanup.

Retrieval workflow