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Research Documentation - AI Agent Navigation

Audience: Contributors, AI Agents, Research Team Last Updated: December 22, 2025 Purpose: Quick navigation to CODITECT research findings


🚀 Quick Start

For AI Agents

Looking for specific research? Start here:

NeedDocumentTokensUse Case
All research topicsRESEARCH-INDEX.md~5000Overview of all research
Anthropic patternsANTHROPIC-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md~8000Claude implementation patterns
InfrastructureTECHNICAL-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md~6000Performance, deployment, architecture
Market analysisMARKET-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md~4000Competition, pricing, positioning
Business casebusiness/README.md~2000ROI, metrics, financials

Total Token Budget: ~25,000 tokens to load all summaries (vs 150,000+ for all raw research)


📂 Directory Structure

internal/research/
├── RESEARCH-INDEX.md ⭐ START HERE - Master catalog
├── ANTHROPIC-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md ⭐ Consolidated Anthropic findings
├── TECHNICAL-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md ⭐ Infrastructure & performance
├── MARKET-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md ⭐ Competitive landscape

├── anthropic-research/ # Anthropic Claude research (48 docs)
│ ├── ANTHROPIC-REFERENCE-INDEX.md # 35 curated sources
│ ├── ANTHROPIC-AGENT-PATTERNS.md
│ ├── ANTHROPIC-TOOL-USE-PATTERNS.md
│ └── anthropic-updates/ # Latest research (40+ docs)

├── business/ # Business cases & metrics
│ ├── README.md # Quick reference
│ ├── ANTI-FORGETTING-EXECUTIVE-SUMMARY.md # 1-page summary
│ └── ANTI-FORGETTING-BUSINESS-CASE.md # Complete analysis

├── market-research/ # Competitive intelligence
│ ├── GENAI-CONTEXT-MEMORY-MARKET-RESEARCH.md
│ └── SAAS-FRAMEWORK-COMPARISON-2025.md

├── claude-code-automation/ # Automation research (10 docs)
├── llm-council-pattern/ # Multi-agent patterns (9 docs)
├── generative-ui/ # Generative UI research
├── performance/ # Performance optimization
├── submodule-management/ # Git submodule patterns
└── [Other specialized research]

🎯 Research by Use Case

When Implementing Claude Features

Read:

  1. ANTHROPIC-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md - Consolidated patterns
  2. anthropic-research/ANTHROPIC-REFERENCE-INDEX.md - 35 sources
  3. anthropic-research/ANTHROPIC-AGENT-PATTERNS.md - Specific patterns

Key Topics:

  • Multi-session continuity
  • Agent skills architecture
  • Tool use patterns
  • Memory systems

When Optimizing Performance

Read:

  1. TECHNICAL-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md - All optimizations
  2. PARALLEL-TASK-EXECUTION-ENHANCEMENT.md - Parallel strategies
  3. performance/PERFORMANCE-OPTIMIZATIONS-SUMMARY.md

Key Findings:

  • Session deduplication: 93% size reduction
  • Parallel execution: 60% faster
  • JSONL streaming: 75% throughput increase

When Planning Infrastructure

Read:

  1. TECHNICAL-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md - Infrastructure overview
  2. OPENTOFU-INFRASTRUCTURE-OPERATIONAL-ANALYSIS.md - GCP analysis
  3. MULTI-TENANT-CONTEXT-architecture.md - Multi-tenancy

Key Metrics:

  • 50+ GCP resources managed
  • 18 months zero-incident operation
  • $2,400/year infrastructure costs

When Analyzing Competition

Read:

  1. MARKET-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md - Complete landscape
  2. market-research/GENAI-CONTEXT-MEMORY-MARKET-RESEARCH.md
  3. market-research/SAAS-FRAMEWORK-COMPARISON-2025.md

Key Insights:

  • $2.7B TAM
  • 18-24 month technical lead
  • Zero direct competitors in anti-forgetting

When Building Business Cases

Read:

  1. business/ANTI-FORGETTING-EXECUTIVE-SUMMARY.md - 1-page
  2. business/ANTI-FORGETTING-BUSINESS-CASE.md - Complete
  3. MARKET-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md - Market context

Key Metrics:

  • Year 1 Revenue: $1.79M
  • LTV:CAC: 6.2x
  • EBITDA: 25% → 35%
  • ROI: 34% (Year 1), 1,067% (Year 3)

📚 Research Categories

1. Anthropic Research (48 documents)

Master Document: ANTHROPIC-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md

Subcategories:

  • Agent patterns (ANTHROPIC-AGENT-PATTERNS.md)
  • Multi-session continuity (ANTHROPIC-MULTI-SESSION-PATTERN-RESEARCH.md)
  • Tool use patterns (ANTHROPIC-TOOL-USE-PATTERNS.md)
  • Prompt engineering (ANTHROPIC-PROMPT-ENGINEERING.md)
  • Claude.md best practices (CLAUDE-MD-BEST-PRACTICES-RESEARCH.md)

Research Papers:

  • A-MEM: Agentic Memory for LLM Agents
  • Memp: Exploring Agent Procedural Memory
  • Nested Learning: A New ML Paradigm for Continual Learning

External References: 35 sources indexed in ANTHROPIC-REFERENCE-INDEX.md


2. Technical Research (15 documents)

Master Document: TECHNICAL-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md

Subcategories:

  • Infrastructure (OPENTOFU-INFRASTRUCTURE-OPERATIONAL-ANALYSIS.md)
  • Performance (PARALLEL-TASK-EXECUTION-ENHANCEMENT.md)
  • Memory systems (CATASTROPHIC-FORGETTING-RESEARCH.md)
  • Multi-tenancy (MULTI-TENANT-CONTEXT-architecture.md)
  • Docker (internal/deployment/DOCKER-DEVELOPMENT-GUIDE.md)

Key Metrics:

  • 50+ GCP resources managed
  • 93% deduplication efficiency
  • 60% faster parallel execution
  • 10-minute Docker setup

3. Market Research (5 documents)

Master Document: MARKET-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md

Subcategories:

  • Market sizing (GENAI-CONTEXT-MEMORY-MARKET-RESEARCH.md)
  • SaaS frameworks (SAAS-FRAMEWORK-COMPARISON-2025.md)
  • Industry analysis (az1.ai-coditect-A16Z-response/)

Key Insights:

  • TAM: $2.7B
  • SAM: $759M
  • SOM: $21.6M (Year 3)
  • Category: Anti-forgetting memory systems

4. Business Cases (4 documents)

Directory: business/

Documents:

  • Executive summary (1-page)
  • Complete business case (30-minute read)
  • Metrics dashboard

Key Metrics:

  • Year 1: $1.79M revenue, 11,250 users
  • Year 3: $33.21M revenue, 180,000 users
  • LTV:CAC: 6.2x
  • Payback: 10.6 months

5. Specialized Research

Agent Skills:

Multi-Agent Patterns:

Generative UI:

Academic:


🔍 Research Workflow

For AI Agents

Step 1: Identify Research Need

Need: "How to implement multi-session continuity?"
Category: Anthropic Research
Document: ANTHROPIC-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md
Section: "Multi-Session Pattern Research"

Step 2: Load Relevant Summary

  • Load ANTHROPIC-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md (~8000 tokens)
  • Find relevant section
  • Check if deeper detail needed

Step 3: Drill Down (If Needed)

  • Load specific document (e.g., ANTHROPIC-MULTI-SESSION-PATTERN-RESEARCH.md)
  • Extract patterns/code examples
  • Apply to current task

Token Budget:

  • Summary: ~8000 tokens
  • Specific doc: ~5000-15000 tokens
  • Total: ~10,000-25,000 tokens (vs 150,000+ for all research)

For Contributors

Adding New Research:

  1. Create document with frontmatter:
---
title: "Research Title"
audience: contributor
type: research
tokens: ~X000
summary: "One-line AI agent summary"
when_to_read: "When to reference this"
keywords: [keyword1, keyword2]
research_status: [active|completed|archived]
research_date: YYYY-MM-DD
---
  1. Add to RESEARCH-INDEX.md

    • Categorize appropriately
    • Add to relevant summary document
    • Update table of contents
  2. Update summary document (if major finding)

    • Add key finding to relevant summary
    • Update metrics/statistics
    • Add cross-references
  3. Tag for discoverability

    • Add keywords in frontmatter
    • Reference in related docs
    • Update when_to_read field

📊 Research Statistics

Current State (Dec 22, 2025):

Total Documents: 144 markdown files
Active Research: ~80 documents
Archive Target: 87% reduction (144 → 20)
Total Size: 25MB (with PDFs/images)

Categories:
- Anthropic: 48 docs
- Technical: 15 docs
- Market: 5 docs
- Business: 4 docs
- Academic: 8 docs
- Specialized: 64 docs

Master Summaries: 4 (25,000 tokens total)
- RESEARCH-INDEX.md: 5,000 tokens
- ANTHROPIC-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md: 8,000 tokens
- TECHNICAL-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md: 6,000 tokens
- MARKET-RESEARCH-SUMMARY.md: 4,000 tokens

Token Efficiency:

  • Loading all raw research: ~150,000 tokens
  • Loading summaries only: ~25,000 tokens
  • Reduction: 83% fewer tokens

Internal (Contributor)

Customer Documentation


📝 Citation Format

When citing research in documentation:

**Research Source:** [Document Name](#)
**Category:** [Anthropic|Technical|Market|Business]
**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD
**Key Finding:** [One-sentence summary]
**Relevance:** [Why this matters for current work]

Example:

**Research Source:** [CATASTROPHIC-FORGETTING-RESEARCH.md](#)
**Category:** Technical
**Date:** 2025-12-11
**Key Finding:** Multi-tier memory architecture prevents 95%+ context loss
**Relevance:** Validates CODITECT's SQLite + Git approach vs external vector DBs

🔄 Maintenance

Update Frequency:

  • RESEARCH-INDEX.md: Monthly or after major additions
  • Summary documents: Quarterly
  • Individual research: As findings emerge

Next Review: March 2026

Maintainer: CODITECT Research Team


Version: 1.0.0 Last Updated: December 22, 2025 Status: Active Compliance: CODITECT CLAUDE.md Standard v1.0.0