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Research Operations
The Research menu holds skills that go out and gather new material and hold it to account — finding sources, mining and verifying claims, weighing the arguments for and against, and breaking a note down into its parts. Its skills are organized into themed groups; several reach the web, and every one hands back a suggestion you review.
Discovery
Find Sources
Assemble a candidate reading list for a topic — you pick what to ingest.
Mining
Extract Key Claims
Mine the central claims a source makes, each with a supporting excerpt.
Verification
Check Facts
Web-verify a claim — corroborated, contested, or unverifiable.
Date / Scope Check
Is this still true now, and was it ever true as stated?
Find Primary Sources
Trace a claim past the citation chain to the actual primary source.
Translate the Magnitude
Re-ground a quantitative claim against its base rate and baseline.
Argumentation
Find Supporting Arguments
Surface the strongest cases in favour of a specific claim.
Find Opposing Arguments
Surface the strongest cases against a specific claim.
Find Load-Bearing Claim
Identify the single claim whose falsity would collapse the argument.
Decomposition
Decompose into Claims
Pull every distinct assertion out as its own typed claim.
Decompose into Linked Notes
Split the note into a parent index + 2–7 focused children.
Crystallize as Components
Extract thought components and file as a crystallization note.
Summarize
Propose Summary
Draft an abstract + TL;DR for this source, for your review.
These are the stock skills
This is what ships in the Research menu. Turn skills on and off, move them between menus, reorder them, or write your own — see Managing & authoring.