Researchforge Landscape

Build the research landscape

This is a handshake: the engine exports structured context, you write the synthesis as YAML, the engine validates it field-by-field before anything is stored. Your synthesis must be grounded in the exported papers only.

1. Export context

researchforge research context --json

This writes .researchforge/synthesis/context.json: the objective, the stored papers (id, title, abstract, ranking signals), and — critically — the embedded JSON Schema the artifact must conform to. Read the whole file.

2. Write the landscape

Write .researchforge/synthesis/landscape.yaml conforming exactly to the embedded schema. Requirements the validator will enforce:

• every cited_paper_ids entry must be a stored paper id from the context;
• every direction needs evidence claims that distinguish claims made by a paper from your interpretation (evidence_type), each with an extraction_confidence;
• do not cite papers for statements their abstracts cannot support.

3. Import (engine validates)

researchforge research landscape --import .researchforge/synthesis/landscape.yaml --json

If validation fails, the --json error payload lists field-level errors (path, message, offending value). Re-read the error payload, fix exactly those fields in the YAML, and re-import. Never bypass validation by editing stored files directly.

Next: the researchforge-hypotheses skill turns directions into testable hypotheses.

Rules

• The Python engine is the boundary: never work around a validation error, a protected path, or an approval gate — fix the artifact or ask the user.
• Approvals belong to the user: never pass --yes or type a confirmation unless the user explicitly approved that step in this conversation.
• Ground every summary in stored data: quote only numbers returned by --json output or files under .researchforge/ — never invent metrics.