The Librarian pipeline applies formal information science methods to analyze and organize collections of documents. It's built on the same discipline that professional librarians use when they receive a new collection — profiling what's there, assessing condition, determining what analysis is feasible, and presenting options to the human who will make decisions.
Each skill produces a structured artifact that the next skill consumes. You don't have to run all four — start with Ingestion and it will tell you what's worth doing next.
category--title.txt will be auto-detected.organizer-data/ and open the Organizer Console for interactive exploration.The Librarian pipeline is grounded in Robert Glushko's framework from The Discipline of Organizing (MIT Press). Every organizing system involves identifying resources, describing and classifying them, designing the interactions they support, and maintaining the organization over time.
The three-phase human workflow — Reference Interview, Capabilities Briefing, Collaborative Triage — is adapted from professional library science practice. The reference interview encodes the insight that the first question asked is rarely the actual need. A reference librarian works backward from the question to the task, from the task to the need, from the need to the situation.
The pipeline also draws on S.R. Ranganathan's faceted classification tradition, which holds that resources should be analyzed along multiple independent dimensions and recombined rather than forced into a single hierarchy. In practice, this means a document might be classified by persona, topic, content type, and concept simultaneously — and any of those facets can be the entry point for retrieval.