wow20/.claude/skills/bmad-deep-recon/references/synthesis.md

Synthesis

The report answers the decision — whether the material came from a native Run or a processed import. Succinct is the contract: findings and verdicts, not essays; rationale lives in the memlog; a reader gets the decision-relevant truth in minutes. For Process mode this is the whole point — the summary is what downstream consumers read so nobody reprocesses the original, and sections with nothing behind them collapse to a line rather than pad.

Assemble research.md in this order, shaped by {workflow.audience} and written in {document_output_language}:

1. Executive summary — decision-first: what the evidence says to do, the two or three findings that drive that answer, and the biggest caveat. One page maximum, readable standalone. Written last, placed first.
2. Dimension sections — already written during the loop; now reconciled: consistent terminology, no duplicated ground, verification statuses and any corrections from the pass applied to the text.
3. Cross-dimension insights — what only the combination shows (e.g. the market is growing but the regulatory dimension caps the reachable segment; the technically superior option loses on ecosystem health). This section is the harness earning its keep — if there are no cross-dimension insights, say so rather than manufacture them.
4. Contrary evidence — when the red-team pass ran and found material; the strongest surviving counter-arguments, cited.
5. Recommendations — each bound to the decision and, where the project has them, to the downstream artifact that consumes it (per the pack's Feeds entries: brief section, PRD input, architecture constraint). Each recommendation names its confidence basis; a recommendation resting on low-confidence or disputed claims says so in the same sentence.
6. Open questions — what the research could not answer, and what it would take to answer each.
7. Source appendix — the numbered source table: [n] | claim/finding it supports | publisher | pub date | accessed | confidence, the publisher cell a markdown link to the source URL. Every inline [n] resolves here.
8. Staleness map — the claims that age fastest, computed not hand-derived: build the claims list (claim, class, pub_date) from the ledger, map the pack's freshness bars to months per class, and run uv run scripts/recon_kit.py staleness <claims.json> --windows '<map>' — render its re-check dates and close by noting the earliest. This is Refresh's work order.

Update the frontmatter (status: complete, updated, and the verified/unverified counts from uv run scripts/recon_kit.py tally {doc_workspace}/.memlog.md — never hand-counted), log a final event in the memlog, and proceed to references/finalize.md.