Activity: Understand a Topic

Problem Domain

User Goal: The user has a knowledge gap about a specific topic and wants to learn what their library says about it.

Recognition

Match this activity when the user says: - "What does my library say about X?" - "Research topic X" - "I want to understand X" - "Deep dive into X" - "Learn about X from my documents" - "What do my sources say about X?"

Maps To

Primary Skill: deep-research

Supporting Skills: - concept-exploration — Find related concepts and where they appear - document-analysis — Extract key concepts from important sources

Expected Outcome

A synthesized answer that: - Addresses the user's question directly - Draws from multiple relevant documents - Includes citations to sources - Provides key points and insights - Surfaces related concepts for further exploration

Example Flow

User: "What does my library say about microservices?"

1. Use deep-research skill to find and extract content
2. If key documents emerge, use document-analysis to extract concepts
3. Use concept-exploration to find related concepts (e.g., "distributed systems")
4. Synthesize comprehensive answer with citations

Context to Preserve

• The topic being researched
• Documents found relevant
• Key findings from each source