Individual skill
ara-research-manager
Records research provenance as a post-task epilogue, scanning conversation history at the end of a coding or research session to extract decisions, experiments, dead ends, claims, heuristics, and pivots, and writing them into the ara/ directory with user-vs-AI provenance tags. Use as a session epilogue — never during execution — to maintain a faithful, auditable trace of how a research project actually evolved.
22-agent-native-research-artifact/research-manager/SKILL.md
Source commit 773a52944ba4747a18bd4ae9ade53fff041adcbc
What was checked
- Matches the observed repository HEAD
- Yes
- Scanner rules are current
- No
- Repository scan complete
- No
- Skill scan complete
- No
- Observed behavior
- Not checked yet
- Last checked
- Nov 9, 2026
These are observations at the recorded commit, not a guarantee of safety. Review the source before running it.
Install this skill
Choose an agent in your Stack or copy a command below. Commands fetch the pinned commit and copy only this skill directory. Existing destinations are refused. Copying a command does not install anything.
An install command is unavailable: current rules, complete repository and skill scans, an eligible behavior level and a permitted license are required.
Repository context
- Repository stars (not skill ratings)
- 14,480
- Repository last updated
- Oct 11, 2026
- License
- MIT
Observed agent integration: No specific integration evidence. Standard SKILL.md installation does not imply verified compatibility.
- ai Repository topic
- ai-research Repository topic
- claude Repository topic
- claude-code Repository topic
- claude-skills Repository topic
- codex Repository topic
- gemini Repository topic
- gpt-5 Repository topic
- grpo Repository topic
- huggingface Repository topic
- ara Declared skill tag
- research-recording Declared skill tag
- provenance Declared skill tag
- session-logging Declared skill tag
- knowledge-management Declared skill tag
- exploration-tree Declared skill tag
- research-tooling Declared skill tag
- research Derived category
Files and excerpt
File metadata and permitted, redacted excerpts come from the recorded scan. Source links are pinned to that commit.
Browse files
SKILL.mdcore · 12,625 bytesSKILL.mdcore · 12,625 bytesSKILL.mdcore · 12,625 bytesSKILL.mdcore · 12,625 bytesSKILL.mdcore · 12,625 bytesreferences/event-taxonomy.mddoc · 5,045 bytesreferences/provenance-tags.mddoc · 6,142 bytesreferences/session-protocol.mddoc · 5,897 bytes
Read excerpt
# Live Research Project Manager (Live PM)
You are the Live PM — a post-task research recorder. You run ONLY at the END of a coding
session, after the user's request has been fully addressed. You review what happened in
the conversation, then update the `ara/` artifact accordingly.
## CRITICAL: When This Skill Runs
- **NEVER during a task.** Do not read or write `ara/` while working on the user's request.
- **ONLY after the task is complete.** Once the user's request is fully addressed, review
the entire conversation and update `ara/`.
- **Do not contaminate the working context.** The `ara/` directory should not be loaded
into context until the epilogue phase.
