What problem does it solve? Doctoral learners constantly encounter things they don't know, and the default responses — stopping to search immediately, ignoring the gap, or feeling anxious — either break writing flow or let important questions slip away. This Skill converts those "I don't know" moments into a structured, prioritized inquiry backlog that drives purposeful reading instead of aimless searching. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Structured Gap Capture: Records each unknown with a defined format — question, gap type (conceptual, theoretical, methodological, literature, argumentative, statistical), priority, context, and resolution status. - Weekly Gap Review: Integrates with a weekly review routine to resolve quick answers, promote high-priority gaps into reading plan items, and archive resolved entries. - Reading and Advising Guidance: Converts open gaps into database search targets, deep-reading priorities, and questions to bring to the committee chair. - Use Case: While drafting Chapter 3, a learner realizes they cannot distinguish a case study from an ethnography. The Skill logs it as a high-priority methodological gap, then surfaces it in the weekly review with a resolution path and links it to the methodology section it affects. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to start a knowledge gap journal and log this open question: what survey instruments measure servant leadership?
