What problem does it solve? Researchers need to ground new work in prior art, but searching internal experiment records and external literature separately, then tracking citations manually, is slow and error-prone. This Skill runs a scoped two-source survey, synthesizes the gap, and makes load-bearing sources durable as registered publications and linked citations. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Two-source survey: Searches the Chronicle internal corpus (experiments, reports, lineage) plus an external literature MCP, with graceful degradation when one source is unavailable. - Citation management: Registers publications by DOI, arXiv, or BibTeX and links them as inputs to an anchor experiment, with deduplication handled automatically. - Gap synthesis and persistence: Produces a three-section synthesis (tried internally / published literature / the gap), optionally saved as a research_report and reported as an activity. - Use Case: Before proposing a new experiment on diffusion model sampling, ask for a literature review; the Skill scopes the question, surveys both corpora, cites the five load-bearing papers, and states the unresolved gap. ## Quick Start Do a literature review on efficient attention mechanisms for long-context inference and cite the key papers to my current experiment.
