Research Topics

A Research Topic is the unit of research work in an Isomer Project. It owns the topic intent, topic overview, workspace runtime, records, repositories, actor and agent workspaces, and GUI-readable artifacts.

Create a topic with the CLI:

isomer-cli project topics create my-topic \
  --statement "Investigate the concrete research question." \
  --set-default

Topic intent files such as intent/src/topic-overview.md are part of the topic contract. If they are missing, the Topic Workspace is incomplete and validation or GUI diagnostics should report that directly.

Use Topic Workspaces for the filesystem contract and Research Records for artifact indexing.