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# Desk Research Pack — Design Document

Living design reference for the desk-research pack. Records the philosophy, architecture, invariants, and key decisions so the reasoning survives beyond individual PRs and applies when extending or replacing any skill.

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## TL;DR

`desk-research` is the evidence layer. It has two independent axes: depth (quick → deep/exhaustive) and lifecycle (single-session vs. sustained project). Source-first ordering — map sources before retrieving, primary before secondary — prevents the most common triangulation failure. GRADE confidence grading makes the epistemic state explicit rather than hiding gaps behind authoritative-sounding prose. Two read-only subagents (`evidence-retriever`, `source-extractor`) preserve main-session context by collapsing raw fetched material into a synthesis before returning. The pack is user-scope by default: research method is portable; artifacts are per-repo and resolved through the adopter's `agentbundle-layout.toml`.

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## Non-Goals

Things a reasonable reader might expect this pack to solve. It doesn't, by design:
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eugenelim/agent-ready-repo · 28 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

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