Spotlight vertical flow: named phases, the Research phase, child skills and RLM details at the bottom.
LEAD · URL · DOCUMENT
ORCHESTRATOR
Spotlight
manages gates · spawns agents · validates artifacts
PREFLIGHT
Check tools and load skills (1)
BRIEF
Scope the lead with the user
BRIEF GATE
approve brief direction
SUB-AGENT · PLANNING
Investigator
writes methodology.json
METHODOLOGY GATE
approve plan and research topics · RLM (2)
RESEARCH · ONLY WITH A RESEARCH PLAN
CODE · ONE LANE PER APPROVED TOPIC
Research lanes bring back leads
CHECKS · MERGE · CLUES
quotes checked · clue rules · triage flags
RESEARCH GATE
mark clues and directions · one stop
STALL · ONE RESEARCH ROUND
INVESTIGATION · CYCLES 1–3
SUB-AGENT · EXECUTION
Investigator collects evidence
SUB-AGENT · VERIFICATION
Fact-checker verifies claims
READINESS CHECK
ready, or loop on gaps
NEXT CYCLE
INVESTIGATION GATE
approve findings · review.html
REPORT · ENDS AT REPORT GATE
Draft report package
INGEST · ENDS AT INGEST GATE
Ingest verified knowledge
VAULT · OBSIDIAN / DIRECTORY
1
CHILD SKILLS
OSINT, grounding, shell safety, archiving,
review, report drafting, monitoring, ingest.
2
OPTIONAL LOCAL LEAD EXTRACTION
RLM runs only after methodology approval.
rlm-analysis.json is leads only.