Researcher Context Audit

Researcher Context Audit

Use this skill before planning, before major re-planning, and after interruptions. The goal is to establish a trustworthy operating picture for the automated research workflow.

What To Review

• User goal, preferred framing, and explicit constraints.
• Existing nodes, artifacts, and checkpoints.
• Completed, pending, blocked, superseded, and rejected work.
• Research memory, workstation materials, recent notes, and prior decisions.
• Evidence quality, open questions, and unresolved contradictions.

Output Contract

Produce a compact but decision-ready context review that includes:

1. Confirmed objective.
2. What has already been completed.
3. What remains unfinished.
4. Which assumptions are still unconfirmed.
5. Which prior directions were rejected or superseded.
6. Which constraints or resources materially affect the next step.

Quality Rules

• Distinguish facts from summaries and summaries from inferences.
• Do not repeat the full transcript; compress to the minimum useful operating state.
• Do not ignore prior user corrections or prior failed attempts.
• If the context is insufficient for safe planning, explicitly trigger the ambiguity gate instead of improvising.