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# Research — deep-dive note doctrine The evergreen HOW for a vault history/geopolitics project: how a rigorous note is **written**, **reviewed**, and **integrated**. It plugs into your role skill — a writer also loads `/worker`, a lead also loads `/orchestrate`, an integrator loads `/worker`. The concrete subject, paths, sibling links, and frontier come from your agent prompt + the vault/board (`/loom-pickup`), not here. The canonical, authoritative method is the vault note **[[Research and Analysis Guideline]]** — the source tiers, the blocklist, the three-layer separation, the credibility-laundering trap. Read it; this skill is the operational distillation, not a replacement. ## The standard (applies to writing AND reviewing) - **Tier-1 first.** Primary documents and scholarly references before anything. Attribute Tier-4 think-tanks explicitly. **Never let a Tier-5 source stand alone** for a loaded claim. Encyclopaedia Britannica is a solid Tier-2 backbone for most subjects. - **The blocklist — never cite:** Al Jazeera, Military Watch Magazine, Factually.co. ([[Research and Analysis Guideline]] holds the authoritative list — defer to it.) The blocklist applies to image provenance too. - **Three-layer separation.** Keep **verifiable fact**, **strategic framing**, and **worldview** distinct — never let framing ride into the note as fact. Beware the **credibility-laundering trap**: a weak claim cited by a stronger-looking outlet is still the weak claim. - **Hed