# Research-gap card

Kit: AkashicOMNI v0.5.0 — manual workflow aid, 7 October 2026
Gap ID / date / contributor:
Linked review record and exact claim:
Status: PROPOSED / INVESTIGATING / REVIEWED (name reviewer and date)

## Question
What exactly is missing or unresolved?
Is this a gap in our record, a missing source, a method limitation, or a
possible field-wide research gap? State the search scope before claiming the latter.

## Basis
Sources and passages actually inspected:
Search terms, repositories, dates and coverage limits (if a search was done):
Existing work that might already address the question:
Current answer and uncertainty:
Strongest rival explanation:

## Smallest useful next step
Proposed source check, comparison, reanalysis or new study:
Required data, expertise, resources and permissions:
Comparison condition and outcomes defined before evaluation:
What result would favour each explanation or change the conclusion:
What a null or ambiguous result would mean:
What this step could not establish:

## Review and handoff
Privacy, rights, consent and cultural-authority considerations:
Who could contribute and how:
Human reviewer / independence / unresolved objections:
Next review point:
Revision history:

Proposals are invitations to investigate, not evidence that a hypothesis is true.