Second Brain Report Agent Skill

Write a research report

A report that presents only findings looks stronger and is less useful, because

the reader cannot tell where it is load-bearing and where it is thin.

Core rule

Scope against the vault first. Most of the work in a good report is knowing what

you do not need to look up.

Workflow

• Inventory what exists. Which pages cover this, what is thin, what is

missing entirely. That answer is the research plan.

• Report the gaps before writing, so the user can decide whether to ingest

more first.

• Write from pages, citing pages. Every claim traces to a source page with

a URL behind it.

• Record disagreement where sources conflict, with dates and who says what.
• State what could not be established and what evidence would change the

conclusion.

• Save to output/ and offer to ingest it back as a source.

Output format

## Question
## What the vault covers    (with [[page]] citations)
## Where sources disagree
## What I could not establish
## What would change this
## Pages read: <list>

Calibration

If the vault covers less than half the question, say so at the top rather than

producing a report that reads as complete.

Never fill a gap from general knowledge without labelling it as outside the

vault. A report whose sources cannot be checked is worth less than a short one

that can.