Workspace notes
Context-v
Specs, plans, explorations, and habits from across the workspace — the durable thinking that lives next to the code. Convention from lossless-monorepo/context-v.
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Research Agent Concatenates Multiple Sources Under One Citation ID — And No Validator Catches It
`research_enhanced.py` writes several sources onto one `[^N]:` line, so downstream parsers keep the first and silently drop the rest.
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Section Citations Orphaned When Definitions Live in 1-research/
`consolidate_citations.py` reads `### Citations` only inside section files, so defs living in `1-research/` become orphans.
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Grill Me: A Per-Section User-Input Moment in MemoPop Runs
A pause-point where MemoPop grills the user — the competitive section's synthesis frame is a judgment the model shouldn't make alone.
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Human-Curated Source Sets and Per-Firm RAG for Memo Narrative
Keep Perplexity's take as quarantined commentary and route real research through validated harvesters plus a per-firm standing RAG store.
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Curating Only Valid Sources Across Runs
Downstream curation cannot fix what `citation_enrichment.py` invents upstream — 65 fabricated `example.com` URLs in a single run.
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Separating Retrieval from Generation in Agent Pipelines
An agent that both searches the web and writes the prose fabricates URLs — 65 `example.com` links in a single memo run.
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Migrate `studies/open-specs-and-standards/` into its own pseudo-monorepo
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Crawl for Better Team Structured Output
The orchestrator writes prose about teams but never returns the structured roster the app needs to render cards: names, titles, photo URLs.
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MemoPop AI — Ideogram OG Image Brief
A house-style Ideogram prefix and suffix any scene description plugs into, so splash, changelog, and context-v imagery stay one family.
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Moving an Agent Orchestrator to an API
The orchestrator is a Python CLI today. To plug it into memopop-native, we need an HTTP-shaped surface. Three options, ranked by effort and time-to-value.
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Introducing a Content Density Mode System
A system-level content mode toggle (redundant vs concise) that alters the behavior of the writer, table generator, and quality agents to match different firm preferences for information density and repetition.
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Introducing a Diagram Generator Agent
Add a diagram_generator.py agent that identifies opportunities to create visual diagrams explaining complex business concepts, starting with TAM/SAM/SOM market sizing and expanding to common finance and consulting visuals.
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PDF Parser Agent Specification
A small specification for an agent and script to parse PDFs and convert them to markdown with properly formatted citations.
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Preferred Format for Changelog
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Portfolio Listing Agent and Current Portfolio Section
Design notes for the portfolio_listing_agent that builds a Current Portfolio subsection and structured JSON for LP-commit emerging manager fund memos.
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Multi-Agent Orchestration for Investment Memo Generation
An exploration into using AI supervisors and specialized agents to generate high-quality content and documents.
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Reconciling Perplexity Citations Against Retrieved Sources
Sonar hands us the sources it actually retrieved on every call, and we throw them away — so every URL in every memo is a guess.
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agent skills/setup new firm/SKILL
End-to-end procedure for onboarding a new VC firm into the memopop investment-memo orchestrator. Five phases — (1) brand acquisition via Firecrawl with analyst-override on the primary-color heuristic, (2) firm-directory scaffolding under io/<firm>/ with the canonical configs/templates/assets/deals layout and the strict brand-config YAML schema, (3) investment-framework outline selection (typically forking an existing outline like alpha-partners-7-Cs and customizing — section reordering, preambles, preferred-source swaps, stage-aware fallbacks), (4) first deal setup with deck-input handling (DocSend capture via cli/capture_docsend.py, ImageMagick screenshot stitching for NDA-gated decks, deal-config JSON, codified Sources.md), and (5) optional private-repo split via gh CLI with submodule re-add for confidential firm data. Use whenever the user says "I have a new client/firm/VC," "set up <firm name>," "add <firm> to memopop," "we need brand configs for <firm>," or pastes a VC firm's URL with implicit intent to generate memos for them. Encodes lessons from the alpha-jwc onboarding on 2026-06-07 — don't trust Firecrawl's primary-color field blindly, verify against the logo palette; the deck analyst will extract DocSend watermarks as the company name if you feed it watermarked screenshots; agents leak firm-geography context into company-analysis prose (Alpha JWC = Indonesia VC → Portland-OR company memo gained Indonesia/rupiah risks); citation-enrichment fabricates example.com URLs even in codified-source mode — codified Sources.md only constrains the upstream researcher, not the downstream enricher. Cross-references [[crawl-fetch-ingest]] for portfolio/team data, [[sources-md-curation]] for the Sources.md file mechanics, and the open issues in context-v/issue-resolution/ ([[Limiting-or-Omitting-Investor-Judgement]], [[Competitive-Research-Generated-But-Not-In-Prose]], [[Including-Comparable-Exits-Valuations-IPOs]]) for known failure modes the new firm's first run will hit.