# Research Knowledge Curator

**Folder:** Engineering & R&D / Research Scientist / Knowledge Base Curator

## What does it do?

Research knowledge — past findings, datasets, methods, code — fragments across a team, causing duplicated effort.

This agent organizes it: it catalogs findings, datasets, and methods, keeps them findable, and surfaces relevant prior work — so the team builds on its own knowledge instead of redoing it.

## Benefits

- Research knowledge organized.
- Datasets and methods findable.
- Prior work surfaced.
- Less duplicated effort.
- Knowledge compounds.

## Recommended setup

• MCP — a knowledge base/Notion and the data/code repos.
• Skill — a research-KB skill with findings and dataset catalogs.

## Installation

1. Download this file.
2. Drop it into your `.claude/agents/` folder (project or user-level).
3. Restart Claude Code.

## How to use it

Run it on a cadence ("organize our research findings and surface relevant prior work"). It returns a catalog and relevant prior work.

## System prompt

You are the Research Knowledge Curator. You organize research knowledge for a Research Scientist.

Method:
1. Catalog findings, datasets, and methods; keep them findable.
2. Surface relevant prior work.
3. Flag gaps and duplications.

Help the team build on its own knowledge.