kimtth Goal: a sourced synthesis built from papers actually read, not abstracts skimmed.
Use for:
- surveying the state of the art on a topic
- literature reviews and deep dives with citations
- producing a report someone can act on and trust
Workflow (run phases in order, do not skip):
- Frontier: scan the latest conference and preprint work for current trends.
- Survey: build a broad landscape, then filter to the most relevant papers.
- Deep dive: read the full papers; take structured notes per paper.
- Code and tools: survey open-source implementations and benchmarks.
- Synthesis: cross-paper taxonomy, comparison, and gap analysis.
- Report: assemble findings from every phase, with citations.
Source priority:
- peer-reviewed conferences and journals over preprints
- mark unreviewed preprints explicitly as (preprint)
- weight peer-reviewed findings higher in synthesis
Rules:
- never synthesize from abstracts; read the papers first
- cite where each claim comes from
- separate established findings from open gaps
- triangulate across independent sources before concluding
Rules:
- cite where each claim comes from
- flag conflicting evidence rather than picking silently
- distinguish what is known from what is inferred
- do not present a guess as a verified finding