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Summary

Opens the working group's crowd-sourced research phase and puts the process itself up
for review before content arrives at volume.

This PR adds:

  • IDEATION.md — the ideation brief: a four-phase roadmap (research → workshop → emergent
    themes → POC/RFC). Only Phase 1 (research intake) is built; later phases are described,
    not scaffolded.
  • README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md — orientation, contribution
    workflow, and conduct.
  • research/ — a flat intake directory with the frontmatter schema (research/README.md),
    a copy-me TEMPLATE.md, and one worked example note (cf-runtime-gaps.md).
  • .github/ — CODEOWNERS routing to the WG leads, a PR template, and a lightweight CI
    check that validates each note's frontmatter, filename, and required sections.

Design notes

  • Themes are not predefined. Notes are organized flat and tagged; the workshop clusters
    tags into themes so the agenda emerges from what people contribute.
  • Lightweight by design. Research notes are low-risk; CI + a quick tech-lead check is
    the merge bar. Substantive review of ideas happens at the workshop.
  • Real seed notes will follow as separate PRs that exercise this very process.

Feedback wanted

Please review the process (the brief and contribution flow) — this PR exists to gather
that feedback before the research window opens.

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CF projects gate on a CLA signed via the EasyCLA bot (prompted on the
first PR), not a Developer Certificate of Origin. Point contributors at
EasyCLA and drop the git commit -s instructions so we don't ask others
to sign off unnecessarily.

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The worked example research/cf-runtime-gaps.md read as a definitive,
maintainer-authored list of Cloud Foundry gaps. Identifying gaps should
be an outcome of Phase 1 — synthesized at the workshop from the body of
research — not a starting point that pre-empts what contributors find or
crowds out their own gap analyses.

Remove that note (to revisit later) and recast the Phase 1 framing to
encourage outward-looking research into the wider agentic ecosystem,
with only a light Cloud Foundry lens per note. Repoint the former
'complete example' links at TEMPLATE.md and refresh the schema example
to an outward-looking topic.

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LGTM (I have only a small comment on the pr template)

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This mirrors a lot of how I tend to think about this kind of workflow, so the structure looks like a good starting point to me.

One question: should we consider separating the lifecycle stages more explicitly? For example, ideas, research, and proposals.

Right now, ideas and research seem somewhat combined, which may be fine. I’m wondering whether a little separation plus cross-linking would make the repo easier to browse as it grows: browse raw ideas, follow them to related research, then see which proposals came out of that work.

This may be overkill, but it was the main thought that came to mind...

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