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 t…
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name: ara-research-manager
description: 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.
version: 1.0.0
author: Orchestra Research
license: MIT
tags: [ARA, Research Recording, Provenance, Session Logging, Knowledge Management, Exploration Tree, Research Tooling]
dependencies: []
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# 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.
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