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Structured research with sources, findings, and decisions.

SimHacker By SimHacker schedule Updated 2/7/2026

name: research-notebook description: "Structured research with sources, findings, and decisions." license: MIT tier: 1 allowed-tools: - read_file - write_file related: [play-learn-lift, summarize, memory-palace, debugging, scratchpad, session-log, sister-script] tags: [moollm, research, investigation, sources, findings]

Research Notebook

Structured research with sources, findings, and decisions.

Track investigations and capture knowledge.

[!TIP] LEARN stage of play-learn-lift. Where patterns emerge from exploration.

Structure

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

Contents

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/
Install via CLI
npx skills add https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm --skill research-notebook
Repository Details
star Stars 43
call_split Forks 5
navigation Branch main
article Path SKILL.md
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