The flipbook

One prompt becomes a reporting notebook

You ask one research question. The agent scopes it, follows the origin trail, runs down gaps and counter-evidence, and returns an answer. That is the conversation. flip works underneath: capturing sources, testing claims, preserving the missing pieces, and leaving a notebook another agent can pick up. Open any Under the hood panel when you want the commands and records; ignore them when you only want the reporting.

Distilled from a real completed investigation; every command shown is regenerated with the real CLI.

What this run shows

The agent did more than collect agreeable links. It separated the direct LLM-wiki precedent from a deeper, second-order Memex lineage; found that OKF's first public repository commit was a snapshot that omitted the upstream history; and kept that missing history visible rather than smoothing it out of the answer.

It also held different kinds of findings differently. Statements about what a single document says were tested against that captured document. The gap map needed several independently authored proposals. The negative roadmap finding names the repository surfaces checked and excludes a project board the run could not observe. A separate claim records the planning signals that were found. "No roadmap here" never becomes "no planning anywhere."

The result is still a directory of Markdown files plus append-only ledgers. Read the compact build-time version on the notebook page, or browse the full rendered notebook with all original captures, judgments, claims, questions, and the transcript.

See the whole notebook Tour the format Get flip

The compact replay uses dated source packets so the site can build offline. The full public notebook retains the original captures and the conversation-level transcript.