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creative_pillar: research
always_load_for: [plan, continuity-check]
authority: advisory
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# Research notes

*Project-wide advisory factual, source, and craft context. These notes are not canon until the writer accepts them into `RECORD.md`, `PLACES.md`, the adapted cast surface, `REFERENCES.md`, `DOCTRINES.md`, `QUESTIONS.md`, `PROCEDURES.md`, or another owner file.*

## Research index

| Topic | Type | Status | Date checked | Accepted into |
|-------|------|--------|--------------|---------------|
| {{TOPIC}} | {{craft, genre, historical-period, place, figure, event, institution, object, procedure, technology, law, medicine, culture, sacred-source, doctrine, academic-source, comparable-work, claim, terminology, source}} | {{sourced, uncertain, pending}} | {{DATE}} | {{none, RECORD.md, PLACES.md, cast, REFERENCES.md, DOCTRINES.md, QUESTIONS.md, PROCEDURES.md, other}} |

## Notes

### {{TOPIC}}

**Type:** {{TYPE}}
**Question:** {{WHAT_THE_WRITER_OR_SCAN_NEEDED_TO_KNOW}}
**Target surface if accepted:** {{OWNER_FILE_OR_COMMAND}}
**Date checked:** {{ISO_DATE}}
**Fact status:** {{sourced, uncertain, era-dependent, fictionalized, accepted-into-canon}}

#### Sourced notes

| Claim | Source | Checked | Confidence | Canon impact |
|-------|--------|---------|------------|--------------|
| {{CLAIM}} | {{SOURCE_URL_OR_CITATION}} | {{DATE}} | {{high, medium, low}} | {{none, candidate, accepted}} |

#### Era and context caveats
{{WHAT_DEPENDS_ON_YEAR_PLACE_TRADITION_OR_SOURCE_TYPE}}

#### Author deviations
{{INTENTIONAL_CHANGES_THE_WORK_MAKES_FROM_REALITY}}

#### Follow-up questions
- {{QUESTION}}

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*Run `/scr:research <topic>` to add sourced notes. Do not invent sources. If browsing is unavailable, write research questions and mark the topic pending instead of filling facts.*