Blueprints Intermediate 1 minute read Updated 2026-06-28 UTC

Personal research garden

A local-first research assistant ecology for source preservation, synthesis, notes, pseudocode, and human-authored decisions.

Research statusApplied blueprint from source-alignment pass Publication statePublished Reviewed byMichael Kappel Source reports4

Objective

A personal research garden helps a person collect sources, compare claims, draft summaries, extract pseudocode, and preserve source trails without turning the assistant into an authority.

Topology

  1. source intake classifier;
  2. source quote and claim extractor;
  3. comparison matrix builder;
  4. pseudocode drafter;
  5. contradiction finder;
  6. human decision ledger.

Flow

pseudocode
PROCEDURE synthesize_research_folder(folder)
    sources <- INGEST_AND_HASH(folder)
    claims <- EXTRACT_CLAIMS(sources)
    matrix <- COMPARE_CLAIMS_BY_TOPIC(claims)
    gaps <- FIND_CONTRADICTIONS_AND_UNSUPPORTED_CLAIMS(matrix)
    draft <- DRAFT_SYNTHESIS(matrix, gaps)
    decision <- HUMAN_PROMOTES_ACCEPTED_CLAIMS(draft)
    RETURN RESEARCH_PACKET(sources, claims, gaps, decision)
END PROCEDURE

Breeding loop

Specialists can improve at extraction, comparison, and pseudocode drafting. The system should not silently rewrite the human decision ledger.

Source reports used for this guide

These reports are preserved verbatim in the site archive. The guide above is an editorial synthesis and may narrow, qualify, or reorganize claims from the source material.