# Research (https://jackin.tailrocks.com/reference/research/)



# Research [#research]

This section holds research dossiers: external landscape scans, feasibility notes, source ledgers, and brainstorm material. Research can inform roadmap items, but it is not itself an implementation commitment.

Roadmap pages should stay task-shaped: current status, intended implementation, acceptance criteria, and links to the research that justifies the plan. When a research page becomes actionable, promote the resulting task to [/roadmap/](/roadmap/) and keep the evidence here.

## Current dossiers [#current-dossiers]

| Area                             | Dossiers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| -------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Agent orchestration              | [Program research](/reference/research/agent-orchestration/program-research/), [Orca ADE](/reference/research/agent-orchestration/orca-ade/), conversation capture, terminal observation, memory, multi-agent collaboration, workflow systems |
| Agent runtimes                   | Package-manager support                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Agent telemetry                  | [Token and cost telemetry](/reference/research/agent-telemetry/token-cost-telemetry/)                                                                                                                                                         |
| Authentication                   | [Claude auth strategy](/reference/research/authentication/claude-auth-strategy/)                                                                                                                                                              |
| Isolation                        | [smolvm backend](/reference/research/isolation/smolvm-backend/), [OrbStack isolated machines](/reference/research/isolation/orbstack-isolated-machines/)                                                                                      |
| Security                         | Isolation architecture, process sandboxing, sandbox backends, credential exposure                                                                                                                                                             |
| CI and testing                   | CI performance/speed, Rust tooling, visual snapshots                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Documentation and infrastructure | Documentation repository strategy, code-intelligence tooling                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Operator/product/desktop         | Host-affordance preflight, public attribution, Desktop Agent Hub                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Runtime                          | [Devcontainer parity](/reference/research/runtime/devcontainer-parity/)                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Session capture                  | [Session capture](/reference/research/session-capture/) (SpecStory internals, agent session stores, market scan — evidence for [Déjà Vu](/reference/research/agent-orchestration/conversation-capture/deja-vu/))                              |
| Backlog                          | [Unscheduled platform ideas](/reference/research/backlog/platform-ideas/)                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Token optimization               | [Token-optimization techniques](/reference/research/token-optimization-techniques/), [Token-optimization tools](/reference/research/token-optimization-tools/), [jackin Context Engine spec](/reference/research/jackin-context-engine/)      |