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desk-research-sprint
Run a timeboxed desk-research sprint that ends with an answer instead of forty tabs — the question decomposition, the source plan by question type, the capture discipline that prevents re-reading, and the stop rule that beats completionism. Use when asked research this market/tool/topic by Friday, I have two hours to get smart on X, structure my desk research, or I keep researching and never concluding. Produces the decomposed questions, the source plan, the capture format, and the timeboxed synthesis with confidence labels.
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# Desk Research Sprint Skill
Unstructured research expands to fill all available time and ends with tabs instead of answers — because "research X" was never converted into questions that can be *done*. The sprint fixes the shape: decompose into 3–5 answerable questions (each with what-good-enough-looks-like), plan sources by question type (market numbers, user sentiment, and technical claims live in different places), capture findings in one running doc *at reading time* (re-reading is the silent time-thief), and obey the stop rule — the timebox ends, the synthesis gets written from whatever's captured, gaps labeled honestly.
## What This Skill Produces
- **The question set** — the vague topic decomposed into 3–5 answerable questions with good-enough bars
- **The source plan** — per question: where answers of that type actually live, and the [source-triangulation](../source-triangulation/SKILL.md) depth it deserves
- **The capture doc** — one running format: finding → source → confidence → which question it feeds
- **The synthesis** — the answers at their earned confidence, the gaps named, the next-sprint questions if any
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