research-room

the manual

a full user's manual, written for someone about to work in a room.

the room

how it is put together

starting a room the five steps between copying the template and working in it.
the folder what each directory holds, and why the split is where it is.
the working agreement the standing policies about who decides what, and how evidence is graded.

getting it

a template repository. copy it, replace the placeholders, and start working in it. there is nothing to install and nothing to run.

git clone https://github.com/torsor/research-room.git my-project
cd my-project
rm -rf .git && git init

then work through starting a room — four placeholders and a config path, and the room is yours.

the template ships problem-neutral: no people, no institutions, no private paths, no session identifiers, no unpublished mathematics, and no inherited project history. PUBLICATION_CHECKLIST.md carries the checks to run before making a room of your own public.

license

the template is distributed under Apache-2.0, which covers the template files as distributed. you choose your own license for the notes, manuscripts, and computations you add afterwards, subject to the licenses of any template material you keep.