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# Lit-Briefing ## Core Rule A briefing reports the **state of the library against the argument** — what came in, what is still open, and where the thesis outruns the evidence. The gaps it names are *search directions* (themes to go find real sources for), **never** fabricated sources to fill the hole. "The argument needs work on horizon-scaling of hallucinated tool calls and the library has none" is the honest output — not an invented citation that pretends the gap is closed. This is a read-only synthesis of `vault/log.md`, `vault/index.md`, and the summaries; it writes nothing except (optionally) the maintained gap list in the index. ## When to Use Invoke with `/lit-briefing` when: - Resuming work after time away — "what did I ingest, what was I chasing?" - Before a `/literature-review` session, to know which themes the synthesis can support and which it must flag as gaps. - Planning a literature-search session — the gaps become the search queries. - After a run of `/lit-ingest`, to step back and see whether the new sources actually moved the argument forward. Read-only. The one persistent side effect is maintaining `vault/index.md → ## Open gaps (relative to the thesis)` so the gap list survives between sessions. ## Process ### Phase 1 — Load the argument and the timeline 1. Read `MANUSCRIPT_MAP.md → Thesis`, **Contribution**, and **Key sources** — the argument the library exists to support, and the spine references it must not misattribute. 2. Read `vault/l