CRAFT Tutorials · Advanced
Beyond a quick look-up, CRAFT can dig into a topic more carefully — weigh sources, rate how confident it is, flag anything it couldn’t back up, and save the findings into your project so they’re there next time. And if you already use other research tools, you can fold their results in too.
New to research in CRAFT? The Getting Started guide How do I use research? covers the basics of running and saving a look-up. This page goes deeper.
Ask for deeper research
When a topic matters, ask CRAFT to go past a surface answer — and to be honest about how solid each part is:
You get back more than a paragraph: findings with sources where they exist, a sense of how confident CRAFT is in each point, and a clear marker on anything unverified — so you know what to trust and what to double-check.
✓ You’ll know it worked when the answer separates well-supported points from uncertain ones, instead of stating everything with equal confidence.
Save findings into your project
Research is most useful when it sticks around. Have CRAFT keep what it found, so a later session can build on it instead of starting over:
✓ You’ll know it worked when CRAFT confirms your findings are saved, and a future session can recall them by name or topic.
Pair it with research tools you already use
If you do some research in other tools, you don’t have to choose. Bring their results into CRAFT and let it organize and pressure-test them alongside its own:
Good to know: CRAFT works with what you bring it. You stay in control of which tools you use and what you share; CRAFT’s job is to verify, organize, and keep the result with your project.
✓ You’ll know it worked when your outside findings come back checked, confidence-rated, and combined into one tidy set with CRAFT’s own.
Troubleshooting
- Everything came back “uncertain” — that’s honest, not broken. Some topics have thin public sources; treat flagged points as leads to verify, not facts.
- You want the findings somewhere specific — tell CRAFT where in your project to file them, or to keep them with a particular subproject.
- You research the same thing often — turn it into a recipe so the deep-research-and-save routine is one command (see Turn a repeated task into your own recipe).
That’s research with a backbone: deeper digging, honest confidence, sources flagged, findings saved, and your other tools welcome in the mix. That also rounds out the Advanced track — from protecting your work and GitHub, to keeping CRAFT healthy, to making it your own. If you ever want to automate a routine you’ve learned here, turn it into your own recipe and let CRAFT run it for you.