# Compact Research Template

- Topic and timebox:
- Source families used:
- Evidence-gated status:
- Accepted claims:
- Tentative or excluded claims:
- Evidence gaps:
- Provider constraints:
- Staleness checks:
- Search engine discovery, if used:
  - direction from providers/search:
  - candidate_triage:
  - rejected_candidates:
  - rejected privacy/login/shell pages:
  - replacement destination followed:
  - remaining candidate queue:
  - deep-dive pages:
  - next query or evidence gap:
  - search_engine_passes:
  - serp_candidates reviewed:
  - selected_destination_pages:
  - engine_failures:
  - provenance:
- synthesis_feedback:
- Limitations:
- Artifact paths:
  - summary.md:
  - report.md:
  - records.json:
  - context.json:
  - meta.json:
  - bundle-manifest.json:
