Default output: return only the result, blockers, and required evidence. Omit preambles, process narration, repeated context, confidence scores, and follow-up offers. Use at most five bullets unless a required artifact or schema needs more.

STORM Research

Stanford OVAL's STORM method (Synthesis of Topic Outlines through Retrieval and Multi-perspective Question Asking, NAACL 2024), distilled into four sequential prompts run in one thread.

Peer-reviewed result: articles built from multiple perspectives were 25% more organized and 10% broader than single-prompt research. The breakthrough is multi-perspective questioning — it catches blind spots a single framing never sees.

When to use

• A single-prompt answer feels shallow or one-sided
• You need to understand a topic the way a PhD student would, not the way a search box would
• Before a decision, investment, negotiation, article, interview, or presentation
• When you suspect the mainstream framing is missing incentives, skeptics, or history

Do not use for: a quick factual lookup (use intelli_search), or exhaustive multi-source web research with citations (use the auto-research or deep-web-research skill).

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