gap-to-topic

Choosing a thesis or proposal topic is not "do a literature review." It is a decision under uncertainty: given everything already known, what should I do next, and why is it defensible? This skill produces the document that decision actually needs — a 3-gate decision dossier for one (or a few) candidate breakthrough points.

It deliberately stops short of the verdict. It assembles the evidence for three gates and hands the final "is this worth doing" call back to the researcher and their advisor — where it belongs.

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