# Research and knowledge

Literature reviews, market scans, due diligence, fact checks and personal knowledge bases.

## Playbooks (4)

- [Build a personal knowledge base wiki that a coding agent maintains from your notes](https://agentshandbook.com/p/build-a-personal-knowledge-base-wiki-from-your-notes.md): You have a folder of interlinked markdown pages with an index and a change log, built from your sources, that you can read in Obsidian and query through the agent, with every change reviewable in git.
 (trust: corroborated, risk: low)
- [Do a literature review with an agent that finds, screens and summarises real papers](https://agentshandbook.com/p/do-a-literature-review-of-papers-on-a-topic.md): You get a screening log, an evidence table with one row per included paper, a synthesis that cites only papers you hold, and a reference list where every entry resolves to a real record.
 (trust: corroborated, risk: medium)
- [Run a deep research report and check that every citation supports its claim](https://agentshandbook.com/p/run-a-deep-research-report-and-verify-its-citations.md): You get a report where every factual claim links to a source that loads and says what the report claims, plus a table of the claims you cut or changed.
 (trust: corroborated, risk: medium)
- [Track new papers and releases in your field with a daily agent digest](https://agentshandbook.com/p/track-new-papers-or-releases-in-a-field-daily.md): Each weekday you get one message with the few new papers and releases that match your interests, each with a link, a one-line reason it matters, and a clear note when nothing new appeared.
 (trust: corroborated, risk: low)