Research Colony Skill

Autonomous research agent that monitors arXiv, GitHub, and HN daily, cross-references findings against MARVIN's knowledge base, and synthesises a digest.

Triggers

• "show research digest", "what's new in research", "any new papers"
• "run research colony", "fetch research", /research-colony
• Session-start: if ~/.claude/research-digest/YYYY-MM-DD.md exists, mention it

Scripts

Output files

• ~/.claude/research-feed/YYYY-MM-DD.json — raw per-source fetch cache
• ~/.claude/research-digest/YYYY-MM-DD.md — final synthesised digest

ChromaDB collections

• research-feed — all fetched items; metadata includes correlated: true/false, matched_topics
• qa-knowledge — existing MARVIN knowledge base (read-only here)

Correlation signals

1. Keyword match — title/summary contains roadmap keywords → tagged with roadmap section (e.g. A.rag, C.vector-db)
2. Semantic similarity — ChromaDB cosine distance < 1.1 against qa-knowledge

Running manually

# Full colony run
~/.agents/venv/bin/python ~/.agents/skills/research-colony/scripts/run_colony.py

# Individual steps
~/.agents/venv/bin/python ~/.agents/skills/research-colony/scripts/source_monitor.py
~/.agents/venv/bin/python ~/.agents/skills/research-colony/scripts/correlate.py
~/.agents/venv/bin/python ~/.agents/skills/research-colony/scripts/research_digest.py