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 "schema": "aiblocks-page/1",
 "id": "layered-research-handover-builder",
 "type": "skill",
 "name": "Layered research handover builder",
 "summary": "Turn your research notes and sources into a layered research handover: a short summary that links to deeper analysis and evidence files.",
 "headline": "Layered research handover builder",
 "subhead": "Share your research question, notes, sources, and who will read the work. It separates the main findings from deeper analysis and source records. You get a linked research folder so readers can start with the summary and inspect the evidence when needed.",
 "job": {
  "id": "document-work",
  "name": "Write down how work gets done"
 },
 "level": "intermediate",
 "thinking": "high",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-10-28",
 "first_published": "2026-10-25",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "question",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Question",
   "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like"
  },
  {
   "type": "source_text",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Source text",
   "what": "a long source in full: an article, a video or talk transcript, or notes from a book, with its title, author and link"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "A research question, audience, notes, source evidence, and a destination folder."
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "A research index, findings summary, topic analyses, evidence records, and coverage notes."
 ],
 "use_when": [],
 "skip_when": [
  "You only need a quick answer to one question: ask your AI directly, no folder needed.",
  "You have a one-off lookup or calculation: just run it and keep the answer, no handover needed.",
  "Your source material is already the final product and needs no summary: share it as it is."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "Your research question",
   "Your notes and source material",
   "Who will read the work",
   "A folder to save the files in"
  ],
  "prerequisites": [
   "An AI that can read the skill's reference files",
   "An AI that can create files in a folder, or you copy the text out yourself",
   "Python 3.9 and a shell only if you want the optional checker script"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "00-index.md",
    "contains": "A map of the project that helps readers find files, with no findings in it."
   },
   {
    "name": "01-summary/",
    "contains": "One file with the research question, key findings and main implications, linking to the analysis files."
   },
   {
    "name": "02-analysis/",
    "contains": "One file per topic, such as market or risk, each readable alone and linking to evidence."
   },
   {
    "name": "03-dossiers/",
    "contains": "A flat set of files with source excerpts, raw data, transcripts and method notes."
   },
   {
    "name": "SOURCES section",
    "contains": "A closing list in every file of the paths below it and what you will find there."
   },
   {
    "name": "artifact-inventory.md",
    "contains": "A tracker of which files exist at each layer, so gaps are easy to spot."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Before you start, gather: your research question, your notes and source files (text, links, data), who will read the work, and a folder to save into.",
  "Download the skill folder. In Claude, open Customize → Skills, then choose + → Create skill → Upload a skill. In ChatGPT, add the files to a project's Sources. In Gemini, make a Gem and paste the instructions. Or paste the instructions into a chat. The skill reads four reference files in its folder, so keep the folder together.",
  "Give your AI your research question, your notes and sources, who will read the work, and a folder to save into.",
  "Ask your AI to follow this skill. It drafts the one-file summary first, links it to one file per topic, and links each topic file to evidence files (source excerpts, data, method notes). It repeats until no gaps are left.",
  "Open 00-index.md and the summary first. Click through to a topic file and an evidence file to check the links work and each file makes sense alone.",
  "Read the coverage notes for gaps. Fill them, then ask your AI to update the links.",
  "Share the index and the summary with readers first. Send the evidence files only to people who want to check the sources.",
  "Where this copy comes from. We imported it from magnus919/agent-skills at commit 92c327e. The skill file's own metadata names an earlier home, magnus919/hermes-profiles, by the same author."
 ],
 "checks": [],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Handover note writer",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/prompts/handover-note-writer",
   "why": "Handover note writer"
  },
  {
   "name": "Analysis assumptions logger",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/analysis-assumptions-logger",
   "why": "Analysis assumptions logger"
  }
 ],
 "source": {
  "by": "Magnus Hedemark",
  "repo": "magnus919/agent-skills",
  "url": "https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills/tree/92c327e525da69c9ad3812fd223a1770e977c2e3/artifact-pyramids",
  "licence": "MIT",
  "original_name": "artifact-pyramids",
  "commit": "92c327e525da69c9ad3812fd223a1770e977c2e3"
 },
 "credits": [
  {
   "title": "artifact-pyramids skill",
   "by": "Magnus Hedemark",
   "url": "https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills/tree/92c327e525da69c9ad3812fd223a1770e977c2e3/artifact-pyramids",
   "used": "Copied under the MIT licence. We gave it a plain name. We added Before you start and After this sections that link to other AI Blocks steps. We refreshed those generated sections from the catalogue inputs and next-step links."
  },
  {
   "title": "Original author",
   "by": "Groktopus",
   "url": "https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills/blob/main/artifact-pyramids/LICENSE",
   "used": "Wrote the skill; Magnus Hedemark shared it in their collection."
  }
 ],
 "files": [
  "assets/artifact-inventory.md",
  "assets/pyramid-template.md",
  "evals/evals.json",
  "LICENSE",
  "README.md",
  "references/artifact-pyramid-framework.md",
  "references/canonical-article.md",
  "references/composite-pyramid-synthesis.md",
  "references/delegation-context-template.md",
  "references/flat-to-pyramid-migration.md",
  "references/intellectual-lineage.md",
  "references/methodology-to-pyramid-mapping.md",
  "references/nested-pyramid-pattern.md",
  "references/output-classification-framework.md",
  "references/pipeline-stages.md",
  "references/provenance-artifacts.md",
  "references/quality-gates.md",
  "references/source-index.md",
  "references/synthetic-example.md",
  "scripts/extract-atoms.py",
  "scripts/pyramid-status.sh"
 ],
 "links": {
  "page": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/layered-research-handover-builder",
  "markdown": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/layered-research-handover-builder.md",
  "json": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/layered-research-handover-builder.json",
  "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/layered-research-handover-builder/SKILL.md",
  "download": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/layered-research-handover-builder.zip",
  "api_item": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/items/layered-research-handover-builder",
  "api_document": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/documents/skill/layered-research-handover-builder",
  "mcp": "https://useaiblocks.com/mcp"
 }
}