Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/project-templates/research-study/field-guides/

project template / candidate

# Research study — field guides

The distinct field guides record for Research study. This page is proposal-only.

Status: **proposed**Lifecycle: **candidate**

## Record status

**Record ID**: project:research-study

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: app_features

**Lane lifecycle**: proposed

**Owner**: Not separately recorded

**Owner role**: Not separately recorded

**Owner status**: Not separately recorded

**Qualification result**: NOT RUN · held for evidence and human review

**Working browser surface:** [Project templates & workflows — overview](<https://guthlabs.ai/labs.html#templates-workflows>) — Create a local project from this template and validate its forms. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held.

## Related field-guide records

- /app/notebook/field-guides/

Source-proposed guide paths are references, not proof that those paths resolve.

## Operating sequence

- Create the project record with canonical ID, origin, source references, provenance, revision, lifecycle, tags, and visibility.

- Complete intake and assign project owner, research lead, reviewer, and approver.

- Approve scope, exclusions, assumptions, source-quality rules, contradiction rules, and stop conditions.

- Create milestones and deliverables with owners, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and due dates.

- Enter the final decision date and generate a workback with internal review, evidence freeze, analysis, drafting, and buffer deadlines.

- Register dependencies and create due items for each blocking handoff.

- Collect source-labelled notes and file references; preserve source locators, hashes where available, and revision history.

- Create evidence records linking each material claim to its supporting source and record contradictory evidence explicitly.

- Review findings against acceptance criteria; mark unsupported, conflicting, or incomplete findings as held.

- Submit scope changes, material findings, and final closure for human approval.

- Run closure checks for milestone completion, evidence coverage, citation completeness, open contradictions, and overdue dependencies.

- Close, extend, or hold the project with a preserved receipt and follow-up tasks.

## Handoff boundary

- A named route may be a local prototype or index rather than a connected feature.

- Unverified sources, missing locators, stale revisions, or unsupported summaries may produce false findings.

- Contradictory evidence may be suppressed unless the form requires explicit linking and resolution status.

- Overdue work can be obscured by silent rescheduling or unclear ownership.

- Agent suggestions may be mistaken for approved findings or completed work.

- File references must not imply that files were uploaded, copied to protected storage, or made authoritative.

- Agenda and message surfaces may draft changes or communications but must not imply external writes or final sends.

- Research conclusions may be overgeneralized beyond the declared population, time period, geography, or source boundary.

- Sensitive notes or attachments may be exposed if visibility and audience fields are omitted.

- Accessibility failures in long, multi-section forms may prevent review or completion.

## Sources and evidence

These pointers bind the page to evidence. They do not grant authority or collapse verification into deployment.

- `source_record:project:research-study`

- `project:research-study`

- `NotebookCollectionKind.project`

- `NotebookTodoPayload.dueAt`

- `Notebook Agenda deadlines/workbacks`

- `Observed native contract: records provenance and revision fields`

- `Observed native contract: PointGuard cross-app context surface`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/projects/`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/to-dos/`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/agenda/`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/approvals/`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/field-guides/`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/agent-logs/`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/notes/`

- `Observed app route: /app/notebook/files/`

- `Observed app route: /app/pointguard/`

- `Notebook records provenance and revisions`

- `PointGuard persistent cross-app context surface`

- `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/projects/`

- `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/notes/`

- `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/files/`

- `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/to-dos/`

- `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/agenda/`

- `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/approvals/`

- `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/search/`

- `APP_ROUTES:/app/pointguard/`