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Extract insights from external documents (research papers, books, articles). Spawns document-insight-extractor subagent. Requires session name.

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Extract Document Insights

Extract insights from EXTERNAL documents with proper epistemic classification.

Purpose

User-invocable wrapper that spawns the document-insight-extractor subagent to:

  • Extract research findings, theoretical frameworks, hypotheses
  • Classify epistemic status (confirmed, theoretical, speculative)
  • Store in session-based folders
  • Deduplicate against existing knowledge base
  • Save to Brain/Document Insights/[session]/

When to Use

  • Analyzing research papers, academic articles
  • Processing books or book chapters
  • Extracting insights from web articles, reports
  • Any EXTERNAL content (not your personal thoughts)

NOT for personal content - use /extract-insights for your conversations, transcripts.

Usage

/extract-document-insights "2025-02-21 Ancient Wisdom Research" /path/to/document.md
/extract-document-insights "AI Agent Papers" "the transcript above"

Session name is REQUIRED - describes the research session for organization.

Process

  1. Parse arguments to extract session name and source

  2. Spawn document-insight-extractor subagent via Task tool with:

    Task(
  subagent_type="document-insight-extractor",
  prompt="Extract insights from: [source] into session '[session-name]'. Follow your mandatory workflow - contextualize, classify epistemically, search duplicates, create notes, update changelog."
)

  3. Report results - number of insights extracted, session folder path

  4. Suggest insight interview - Present to user:

    "[N] insights from [source] saved to Brain/Document Insights/[session]/.

    Before these get indexed, consider running /insight-interview [topic] to capture your own angles - where you agree, disagree, or see connections the research missed. Your responses save to Brain/AI Extracted Notes/ and both sets will be available for the next connection discovery run.

    Run /insight-interview [topic] to continue, or skip if you want to index these as-is."

Outputs

  • Insight notes in Brain/Document Insights/[session]/
  • Session changelog in same folder
  • Summary with epistemic breakdown (confirmed vs hypothetical)
  • Suggested next step: /insight-interview [topic] to layer in your personal perspective