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Alex4729 member 18:11

@Walter please figure out what research tools and capabilities you have available in your current environment.

Tell me what you can and cannot do for research right now. Then explain:

  1. what you can use,
  2. what kinds of sources it can help with,
  3. what it cannot verify,
  4. how you will distinguish facts from interpretation,
  5. what rules others should follow when using research outputs.

Write a short onboarding note for the team. Do not do research yet.

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Alex4729 member 18:11

@Walter please onboard Clara and Marcus on how this investing research team should work.

Give @Clara her lane: research and drafting memos. Have her walk through how she would research one company, say Nvidia, what sources she would want, what she would treat as fact versus interpretation, and what she could not verify.

Then teach @Marcus how to review Clara's memos: source strength, freshness, unsupported claims, missing counterarguments, overconfidence, concentration risk, and fit with my portfolio context.

End with a short team note: Walter owns portfolio context and source discipline, Clara owns research and memo drafting, Marcus owns evidence and risk review.

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Alex4729 member 06/09 18:11

@Walter please figure out what research tools and capabilities you have available in your current environment.

Tell me what you can and cannot do for research right now. Then explain:

  1. what you can use,
  2. what kinds of sources it can help with,
  3. what it cannot verify,
  4. how you will distinguish facts from interpretation,
  5. what rules others should follow when using research outputs.

Write a short onboarding note for the team. Do not do research yet.

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Walter Investment Steward 06/09 18:11

I’ll inventory my current environment and write this as an onboarding note for research use. I’ll keep it about capabilities and rules only, with no company research.

Walter Investment Steward 06/09 18:14

Research onboarding note for Walter

As of 2026-06-09, I can support research workflows, but I should be treated as a source-aware research steward, not a data terminal or decision-maker.

1. What I can use

  • Slock context: message history, search, threads, tasks, attachments, reminders, and the portfolio source-of-truth thread.
  • Public web access: search/open public pages and use finance/time-style lookups when current data is needed.
  • Local tools: curl, rg, jq, node, python3, sqlite3, and git for fetching, parsing, calculating, and checking files or attachments.
  • Browser/computer-use tools for interactive pages, screenshots, and UI verification when needed.
  • Current integrations: no active third-party research, brokerage, or paid market-data login. The only listed integration is Slock Survey, not logged in and not relevant to investment research.

2. Sources these tools can help with

  • Primary sources: company IR pages, SEC filings, exchange/company quote pages, regulatory releases, official presentations, earnings materials, and attached documents.
  • Secondary sources: public news, analyst commentary available on the open web, industry reports, podcasts/transcripts, and public datasets.
  • Internal sources: @Alex4729’s stated holdings, watchlist, risk preferences, prior decisions, and team discussion in Slock.

3. What I cannot verify

  • Actual account balances, cash, positions, trades, cost basis, taxes, or broker records unless @Alex4729 provides them or a proper integration is added.
  • Bloomberg/FactSet/Capital IQ/paywalled/private data that I cannot access.
  • Whether a real-time quote is the official final print unless the source explicitly says so; I will timestamp the feed and state its limits.
  • Management intent, future outcomes, anonymous claims, or narrative explanations that are not directly supported by sources.

4. Facts vs interpretation

  • Facts: quoted or summarized source-backed items with source name, date/time, and verification status.
  • Interpretation: clearly labeled as analysis, inference, implication, or open question.
  • If sources conflict, I will show the conflict instead of smoothing it over.
  • If I infer something from portfolio context, I will say it is an inference, not a discovered fact.

5. Rules for using my research outputs

  • Do not treat my output as buy/sell/sizing advice.
  • Keep source links, timestamps, and caveats attached when reusing a number or claim.
  • Do not quote my interpretation as if it were a primary-source fact.
  • Do not move private portfolio context into channels where it does not belong.
  • For company-cause research, route to @Clara; for portfolio/risk framing, route to @Marcus. I will keep the portfolio context and source discipline aligned.
Clara Research Lead 06/09 18:15

Acknowledged. The routing rule works for me: send company-cause research questions to @Clara when the ask is about what happened, why it happened, what sources support that read, or what facts are still missing.

I’ll keep those outputs source-separated: facts with source/date/time, interpretation labeled as inference, and no buy/sell/sizing advice.

Marcus Risk Reviewer 06/09 18:15

Acknowledged. Complementing Clara’s company-cause lane, route portfolio/risk framing to @Marcus when the ask is about concentration, drawdown, liquidity, scenario exposure, sizing process, or how a source-backed fact changes portfolio risk.

For those handoffs, include the specific portfolio question, the source snapshot or holdings/cash inputs being used, and any constraint that matters, such as tax, liquidity, time horizon, or max position size. I’ll treat source-backed numbers as facts, label assumptions and interpretation separately, and won’t present the output as buy/sell/sizing advice or verify broker records unless the data source is provided.

Walter Investment Steward 06/09 18:16

Acknowledged. I’ve recorded this as the risk-routing rule.

For @Marcus handoffs, I’ll include:

  • the exact portfolio/risk question,
  • the source snapshot or holdings/cash inputs,
  • relevant constraints such as tax, liquidity, time horizon, or max position size,
  • what is fact vs assumption vs interpretation.

I’ll keep broker-record verification out of scope unless @Alex4729 provides a source or integration, and I’ll keep the output away from buy/sell/sizing advice.

Marcus Risk Reviewer 06/09 18:16

That works. With that format, I can respond quickly on portfolio/risk framing while keeping the source trail and advice boundary clear.

Walter Investment Steward 06/09 18:17

Acknowledged. I’ll use that format for future @Marcus handoffs and keep the source trail plus advice boundary explicit.

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