reading-list

## Design system — mandatory on all HTML artifacts

Every HTML artifact generated by this skill MUST follow this design system.
No exceptions. Never invent colours, never use dark backgrounds, never use
purple or blue as primary backgrounds.

**Palette:**
- Page background: `#fafaf8` (warm white)
- Card background: `white`
- Primary text: `#2c2c2c` (soft charcoal)
- Secondary text: `#6b6b6b`
- Muted text: `#9a9690`
- Accent / headers: `#1b5e52` (deep teal) — the ONLY accent colour
- Border: `#e0ddd6`
- Hover tint: `#f0f7f4`
- Warning/amber: `#fff8f0` background, `#f0d090` border, `#5a3a00` text

**Typography:**
- Body: `'Georgia', serif`, 14px minimum
- Monospace labels: `'Courier New', monospace`
- Never below 11px anywhere

**Component rules:**
- All section headers: `background: #1b5e52; color: white`
- Cards: `background: white; border: 1px solid #e0ddd6; border-radius: 8px`
- Buttons: `background: #1b5e52; color: white` for primary actions
- No gradients, no shadows, no dark backgrounds on outer containers

**Pill colour system:**
- Global company: `background:#e6f1fb; color:#0c447c; border:0.5px solid #85b7eb`
- India listed: `background:#eaf3de; color:#27500a; border:0.5px solid #97c459`
- India private: `background:#faeeda; color:#633806; border:0.5px solid #ef9f27`
- Flagged: `background:#fcebeb; color:#791f1f; border:0.5px solid #f09595`
- Neutral segment: `background:#f3f4f6; color:#374151; border:0.5px solid #d1d5db`
- Seeded: `background:#eaf3de; color:#27500a`
- Discovered: `background:#e6f1fb; color:#0c447c`

**Attribution footer — mandatory on every artifact:**
```html
<div style="margin-top:32px;padding-top:12px;border-top:1px solid #e0ddd6;
  display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;
  font-family:'Courier New',monospace;font-size:10px;color:#9a9690">
  <span>Curiosity Stack is not a SEBI registered investment advisor · Not investment advice · Makers accept no liability · For research only</span>
  <a href="https://curiositystack.app" target="_blank"
    style="color:#1b5e52;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none">
    ⬡ curiositystack.app
  </a>
</div>
```

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# Curated Reading List

## Purpose

After a decomposition, the user has a structured mental model of the topic. The reading list deepens that model — each recommendation targeted at a specific layer or gap in the decomposition just completed.

5 recommendations. No more. Curated, not comprehensive.

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## Selection Principles

Each recommendation must:
- Be specific to the topic just decomposed — not generic AI/market reading
- Target a different layer or angle than the others
- Be publicly accessible — no paywalled content unless it is clearly labelled
- Be worth the user's time — quality over quantity

Mix of formats:
- One foundational explainer (Layer 1 depth)
- One practitioner piece (how someone actually built something in this space)
- One market/business analysis (Layer 5/6 perspective)
- One India-specific piece (if India filter is active)
- One "adjacent lens" — something that approaches the topic from an unexpected angle and deepens the mental model

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## Format

```
📚 5 THINGS WORTH READING — [TOPIC]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

1. [Title] — [Source]
   [One sentence on what this covers and why it's worth reading for this specific decomposition]
   [URL if available, or search instruction if not]
   Best for: [Layer it deepens]

2. [Title] — [Source]
   [One sentence]
   [URL or search instruction]
   Best for: [Layer it deepens]

3. [Title] — [Source]
   [One sentence]
   [URL or search instruction]
   Best for: [Layer it deepens]

4. [Title] — [Source] 🇮🇳
   [One sentence — India-specific angle]
   [URL or search instruction]
   Best for: [India context at Layer 5/6]

5. [Title] — [Source]
   [One sentence — the adjacent lens]
   [URL or search instruction]
   Best for: [The unexpected angle]

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Note: These are research resources, not endorsements or 
investment recommendations.
```

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## Source Quality Hierarchy

Prefer in this order:
1. Original research papers, company filings, regulatory documents
2. Long-form analysis from credible practitioners (Substack, personal blogs of domain experts)
3. Quality journalism (The Information, Bloomberg, Economic Times, Mint)
4. Community discussions with high signal (HackerNews threads, specific Reddit threads)
5. General explainers only if nothing better exists for this topic

Avoid:
- SEO content farms
- Generic "Top 10 AI tools" style lists
- Anything that reads like a press release
- Paywalled content without labelling it as such

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## If URLs Are Uncertain

If you are not confident a specific URL is accurate and live, give the search instruction instead:
*Search: "[exact search query]" on [platform]*

Never fabricate URLs. A good search instruction is more useful than a broken link.