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ara-research-manager

Records research provenance at the end of a coding or research session by scanning the conversation and writing decisions, experiments, dead ends, pivots, claims, and heuristics into the ara/ directory (exploration_tree.yaml, claims.md, heuristics.md, observations.yaml, session records), each tagged user, ai-suggested, ai-executed, or user-revised. Use when a task is finished and you want a session epilogue. Use when you need an auditable trace of how a project evolved. Use when decisions and dead ends need logging with provenance. Use when initializing an ara/ directory. Do not use during task execution, since it must run only after the request is complete.
Category: research-automation · License: MIT · Version: 1.0.0

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When to use it

Records research provenance at the end of a coding or research session by scanning the conversation and writing decisions, experiments, dead ends, pivots, claims, and heuristics into the ara/ directory (exploration_tree.yaml, claims.md, heuristics.md, observations.yaml, session records), each tagged user, ai-suggested, ai-executed, or user-revised. Use when a task is finished and you want a session epilogue. Use when you need an auditable trace of how a project evolved. Use when decisions and dead ends need logging with provenance. Use when initializing an ara/ directory. Do not use during task execution, since it must run only after the request is complete.

Full playbook

Read SKILL.md for the complete workflow, references and any scripts. The agent installer copies the full skill folder.