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title: "research-knowledge-capture"
description: "Research Knowledge Capture (RKC): ingest deep-research dumps and articles into an OKF ContentPack of areas, subjects, claims, evidence, and findings. Layer 0 of the research second brain."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/research-knowledge-capture
last-updated: 2026-10-07
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# research-knowledge-capture
Research Knowledge Capture (RKC): ingest deep-research dumps and articles into an OKF ContentPack of areas, subjects, claims, evidence, and findings. Layer 0 of the research second brain.
- Slug: research-knowledge-capture
- Publisher: Rick Hightower
- Repository: https://github.com/SpillwaveSolutions/research-knowledge-capture
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 0.2.9
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): research
- Skills: 7 (research-extract, research-ingest, research-pack, research-retrieve, research-search, research-spine, research-validate)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 1
- Repository created: 2026-08-22
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-19
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/research-knowledge-capture
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What research-knowledge-capture does, in the publisher's words

Layer 0 ContentPack for a research second brain. OKF Markdown + YAML is the source of truth. Agent Brain is a disposable index: see research-graph.

Version: 0.2.6: dry-run writes nothing; empty sources are skipped. See the PRD.

Eight nouns: ResearchArea, Subject, ResearchTask, SourceDocument, ResearchQuestion, Claim, Evidence, Finding.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpillwaveSolutions/research-knowledge-capture/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- research-extract: Segment an archived research dump, extract claims/evidence/findings, merge on claim_key, write a required PR summary. Fail-closed. Never auto-supersede accepted or verified nodes.
- research-ingest: Archive AI deep-research dumps and articles into RKC source-assets. Hash, copy, write SourceDocument + ResearchTask shells. Optionally run the Phase 2 extractor. Idempotent on bytes plus prompt hash plus extractor version.
- research-pack: Build an RKC ContextPack. Structural max_hops=2 plus Finding→Claim→Evidence spine. Question roots allow one inbound hop on answers.
- research-retrieve
- research-search
- research-spine: Create missing Subject and ResearchArea nodes and write has_task / has_subject on an existing RKC tree. Idempotent repair for 0.2.0 archive-only ingest.
- research-validate: Fail-closed RKC validator. Unknown type or rel is an error. Accepted Claims need evidenced_by. Verbatim quotes must match the archived span.

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.