research-prior-art

To catalog prior art for a research project, identify and annotate relevant academic papers, CVEs, tools, talks, and source code repositories, then store them in a prioritized prior-art.md file with relevance ratings to guide iterative decisions.

Prior art search is the process of discovering and assessing existing academic papers, security tools, and CVEs. You need to scan the landscape during the exploration phase of a new project to inform decisions and track relevance over time.

You can find and annotate relevant CVEs and academic papers by running a prior-art sweep against your research brief, appending concise annotations and metadata for each discovered item to assess its relevance to your project.

Yes, you can maintain a literature review catalog by storing annotated entries in a prior-art.md file. This file includes metadata and relevance ratings to support iterative decision making and track the relevance of academic papers over time.

Yes, cataloging security tools and source code repositories works alongside academic papers. The process surfaces diverse prior-art items during the exploration phase, allowing you to attach concise annotations and assess their relevance in a unified markdown catalog.