Research [question or topic] and produce a decision-ready [memo, brief, specification, recommendation, page, or other artifact] for [audience or decision]. If the question, audience, or intended artifact is missing, ask one focused question before starting. State the decision the artifact should support, its acceptance criteria, the allowed source scope, and the research budget. If no budget is supplied, use no more than ten strong sources or ninety minutes. Prefer current primary sources where available. After each research pass, update the artifact and identify the largest remaining evidence gap, contradiction, or uncertainty. Continue only if resolving it could materially change the decision and the budget allows another pass. Never invent evidence or hide uncertainty. Stop when the artifact meets its acceptance criteria, important claims trace to sources, and remaining uncertainty is explicit. Otherwise stop as blocked or exhausted. Finish with the completed artifact, sources, findings, tensions, confidence level, open questions, and recommended next step.
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Use this when
Use this when research should end in a specific decision, brief, recommendation, specification, page, or other artifact rather than a pile of notes.
How it runs
Define the decision, audience, artifact format, acceptance criteria, source scope, and research budget.
Gather the strongest relevant evidence and separate findings, tensions, implications, and open questions.
Update the artifact, identify the largest remaining evidence gap, and research again only when it could change the decision.
Stop with a sourced decision-ready artifact or an honest blocked or exhausted result.
Done when
✓ The artifact is ready to support its stated decision. The deliverable meets its acceptance criteria, traces important claims to sources, and states material uncertainty instead of hiding it.
Why it works
Research can expand indefinitely when the output and decision are vague. Tying each research pass to a concrete artifact keeps effort proportional to what the decision actually needs.
Implementation note
This loop creates an artifact from research. Use the artifact-to-skill loop later if the proven method behind that artifact should become reusable.
Each night, review publicly released product changes and select only those users need to know. Verify each against the product, docs, or release notes. Use the Jellypod MCP to turn the approved changes into a three-to-five-minute podcast explaining what changed, why it matters, and how to try it. Check the script and audio for accuracy, clarity, and pronunciation. If nothing meaningful shipped, make no episode. Ask before publishing. Finish with the draft episode, sources, and review result.
Find a repeatable weekly post format for [approved account, audience, and topic] through a six-week experiment. If the account, audience, or topic is missing, ask for it before drafting. Obtain approval before publishing anything externally. Each week, draft one short post about a real problem [person, product, or company] solves. Record substantive replies, saves, and questions after the same measurement window. Treat likes as secondary evidence. Keep the audience, topic area, cadence, and measurement window comparable. Change only one meaningful element each week, such as the opening, format, example, or call to action, based on the strongest signal from the previous post. Stop when one format materially outperforms the alternatives, the six-week experiment ends without a winner, approval is withheld, required metrics are unavailable, or the budget is exhausted. Never fabricate engagement data. Finish with every post, its measurements, the variables tested, the winning format or no-winner result, and the next recommendation.
Before publishing [draft], inventory every factual, statistical, quoted, or attributed claim a reader could verify. Find the best current primary source for each and label it supported, outdated, misattributed, unsupported, or unverifiable. Fix the riskiest mismatch, then recheck that claim and anything depending on it. Repeat until no high-risk unsupported claim remains or five rounds are exhausted. Never invent a source, cite evidence that does not support the claim, or alter a quotation. Ask before changing a named person’s quote or a legal, medical, or financial statement. Stop without changes if there are no checkable claims; stop as blocked when adequate evidence is unavailable. Finish with the claim-to-source table, corrections made, unresolved claims, and decisions requiring an editor.