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Overview

Research and Development is the studio’s research bench. Findings from any field come in fast as short Markdown entries. Every source is tagged with its tier, and every claim says whether anything has checked it. Rig experiments sit beside the entries they test. One command, rnd, searches all of it.

Bench and shelf

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The studio keeps knowledge in two places, and they do different jobs.

Research and Development readouts
Role the bench: intake, experiments, open questions the shelf: verified knowledge bases
Pace an entry in minutes; claims start unverified built and checked by study swarms
Shape Markdown entries, one topic each one SQLite knowledge base per domain
How messy messy on purpose: disputed claims, dead ends and interim results stay visible not messy at all: every row is sourced and verified

The bench is allowed to be messy because it is honest about the mess. An interim result is labelled interim. A claim no one has checked says so. A claim that turned out wrong stays, marked [wrong] with what showed it, so the next session does not rediscover it.

The path to the shelf

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  1. Bench. A finding lands as an entry. Its claims start [unverified]. Measurements from our own machines go in as rig sources, with their harness under experiments/.
  2. Internal shelf. When a topic’s load-bearing claims hold up, it is built into a knowledge base in readouts’ private working repo, or added to an existing one.
  3. Public shelf. A knowledge base is published to the public readouts repo when it joins the export allow-list.

From the bench, rnd readouts searches every readouts knowledge base read-only, so one seat reaches both stores.

Any field

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Research here is not limited to the studio’s own fields. Each entry keeps two things apart: what the knowledge is (Summary, Key points) and what it means for the studio (Studio relevance, plus relevance: act | watch | reference). reference is a fine verdict: knowledge worth having even when nothing needs doing.

In this handbook

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