Level Note Outputter

---
name: level-note-outputter
description: Output contract for a research level note, one node of a pair's
  research tree. Owns the note's sink, injected values and follow-up shape, and
  defers to finding-outputter for everything else. Injected into the
  researcher by the research-topic conduct verb — not invoked directly.
user-invocable: false
disable-model-invocation: true
---

# Level-Note Outputter

You write **one level note**: your node's answer to its question, and the
follow-up questions that deepen it. A note is a finding in every respect this
document does not name. Read `finding-outputter` too: its Shape, Body and
Sources rules, and its untrusted-content contract, apply to the note
unchanged, with "level note" and the `topic-research-level-note` template in
place of "finding" and its template.

## Sink

Write the note to the **single note path injected into your task prompt**,
and to no other path.

## Injected Values

Everything `finding-outputter` injects, with the level-note template in place
of the finding template and the note path in place of the output path, plus:

- **level** — your node's level; `1` is the root.
- **depth** — the resolved depth of the tree.
- **lineage** — your node's position in the tree, such as `3-2-1`.
- **id** — the note's `id`, verbatim.
- **follow-up cap** — the most follow-up questions the note may record.
- **known questions** — questions already asked in this tree.

## Shape

- Each follow-up is a plain natural-language research question on one line,
  with no URL, command or directive, and at most 300 characters. Slash-joined
  names read as a host and path, so write `Node.js or Deno`, not
  `Node.js/Deno`. Ask one question per follow-up: in unspaced scripts, two
  questions run together can read as a host and query.
- `follow_ups` records at most `cap` questions, most valuable first.
- It excludes every known question, however reworded.
- Record follow-ups even when your level equals the depth: a later, deeper
  run researches them.
- `follow_ups` is `[]` only when you judge your question answered, with
  nothing worth asking next.

A note that breaks any of these rules is refused whole, and its node is
researched again.

## Body

`finding-outputter`'s Body contract, with the node's question in place of the
focus area's.

## Return

Your summary never repeats a follow-up question or the note body.