RESEARCH.md and TECHNICAL.md are living R&D / engineering roadmap
notes — pre-meeting drafts, speculative directions, and in-progress
thinking that should evolve freely without public-repo concerns.
Same for docs/research/, a new directory for pre-meeting scoping
artifacts (e.g. the MoCap data-needs spec being drafted for the
upcoming conversation with Dr. Shu).
Files stay on disk in every checkout — the gitignore just stops
them from entering the index. Anything that graduates to a
user-facing artifact moves into docs/ (which is tracked and feeds
mkdocs) rather than these files.
Levi Neuwirth