Prior art

Inspect bounded local repository and Runx catalog evidence before a design, draft, or operator decision, then produce citation-bound findings and a reuse, amendment, new-work, or stop recommendation. Use when existing tools, skills, standards, or project patterns must constrain downstream work; use research or web-fetch first for external sources.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add runxhq/runx --skill prior-art

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SKILL.md

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Prior Art

Ground the next decision in sources that were actually inspected.

Procedure

Supply a bounded objective, optional work-plan decomposition, and any repo-relative source_paths that matter.
Native runx.skill.inspect indexes the local Runx catalog and fs.read_bundle reads and hashes at most sixteen requested files under the workspace boundary. Missing files are recorded; escaping, duplicate, or oversized paths fail closed.
Read only the indexed sources needed for the objective. State each finding as claim, source, relevance, and confidence (verified, likely, or unverified).
Name adjacent catalog skills and the boundary each already owns. Recommend reuse, amend, new_work, or stop; do not create a duplicate primitive because an existing package is imperfect.
The domain validator checks every verified citation and adjacent skill against those native projections. Unsupported verified claims or missing requested sources force needs_more_evidence.

External URLs are not inspected by this runner. Fetch them through a governed source skill, persist the bounded evidence in the workspace, then pass its path here.

Output

decision: ready | needs_more_evidence
findings:
  - claim: string
    source: repo-relative path
    relevance: string
    confidence: verified | likely | unverified
catalog_fit:
  decision: reuse | amend | new_work | stop
  adjacent_skills: array
  rationale: string
recommended_flow: array
quality_bar: object
sources: array
risks: array
evidence: object
validation: object

Inputs are objective, optional decomposition, graph_purpose, audience, artifact_contract, and bounded source_paths.

Agent task contracts

`prior-art-research`

Use the deterministic evidence index to select and read only the bounded local sources needed for the objective. Return prior_art_draft with decision, findings, catalog_fit, quality_bar, recommended_flow, sources, and risks. Cite repo-relative paths exactly. Mark a finding verified only when its source appears in inspected_sources or the catalog index. Prefer reuse or amendment over duplicate primitives. Return needs_more_evidence when requested sources are missing.

What ships with it: 2 files

15.0 KB alongside SKILL.md, 1 of them executable

prior-art.mjsruns7.0 KB
X.yaml8.0 KB