# AGENTS.md — The Innovator's Catechism

**Paper**: The Innovator's Catechism (2020)
**Area**: Cognitive Security
**Authors**: Daniel A. Friedman, Scott David, R.J. Cordes, Andrew Stewart, Virginia Bleu Knight

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## Agent Roles

### 📖 Research Agent
**Focus**: Deep analysis of The Innovator's Catechism
**Tasks**:
- Analyze core argument: Innovation teams formed in incubators, research accelerators, hackathon weekends, and within organizations need to quickly align on narrative, workflo...
- Evaluate: Presents The Innovator's Catechism for early-stage teams
- Evaluate: Reviews military and business operations orders comprehensively
- Evaluate: Provides actionable protocol for rapid team alignment in innovation contexts

### 🔬 Methods Agent
**Focus**: Methodological rigor and replication
**Tasks**:
- Assess and document: Operations order framework design
- Assess and document: Military-civilian methodology transfer
- Assess and document: Business operations analysis
- Assess and document: Team formation protocol development

### 📚 Citation Agent
**Focus**: Citation context and scholarly impact
**Tasks**:
- Track citations and impact of this cognitive security work
- Map connections to related works in the Friedman corpus
- Identify citing papers and downstream applications

### 🔗 Synthesis Agent
**Focus**: Cross-paper and cross-domain connections
**Tasks**:
- Connect themes: operations orders, innovation teams, Innovator's Catechism, team alignment, military transfer
- Link to related works in the docxology corpus
- Identify synergies across Active Inference, entomology, and cognitive security

### 💼 Consultant Agent
**Focus**: Practical application and knowledge transfer
**Tasks**:
- Evaluates practical applications and implementation strategies for this research
- Maps findings to industry challenges, Active Inference, and technological solutions
- Facilitates knowledge transfer to external teams and collaborators

## Extraction Log

- **Source PDF**: `2020_InnovatorsCatechism.pdf`
- **PDF Status**: ✅ Available
- **Documentation Quality**: Hand-curated from direct PDF analysis

## Related Papers

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