What problem does it solve? Open-source investigations often stall as unstructured research: leads get lost, claims go unverified, and unfinished work gets treated as publishable fact. Spotlight turns a lead into a structured case file with a scoped brief, approved methodology, sourced findings, independent fact-checking, and provenance records, enforced by human approval gates. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Gated investigation orchestration: Sequences phases (brief, methodology, execution, fact-check, report, ingestion) and requires explicit user approval at each gate before proceeding. - Delegated agent research: Spawns investigator and fact-checker agents with iteration limits, evidence grounding rules, and readiness criteria such as minimum high-confidence findings and independent sources per claim. - Durable case state and recovery: Tracks phase, attempts, and resume state via a resolver so interrupted investigations recover without re-reading artifacts. - Use Case: A journalist receives a tip about a suspicious government contract. Spotlight creates a case directory, drafts a methodology for approval, runs bounded research cycles against public sources, fact-checks each claim, and presents verified findings at Gate 1 for editorial review. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to investigate a lead, for example: "Investigate the ownership network behind this company and verify the claims in this document."
