Expand from one or more seed papers to find relevant prior work, follow-up work, and adjacent papers around a topic. Use when Codex needs to start from known papers instead of a fully bounded corpus, trace citations or other relation signals outward, maintain explicit provenance from each discovered paper back to the seeds, rank the resulting reading map, and stop based on a documented saturation argument rather than pretending to cover the whole literature.
Expand outward from one or more seed papers without losing the trail back to why each discovered paper matters. Start by locking the seed set and expansion plan, build an expansion ledger, traverse relation signals in controlled hops, then report a ranked reading map with provenance and a clear saturation argument.
Do not pretend this workflow proves global coverage of a field. This skill is for seed-driven exploration, so the hard requirements are provenance, disciplined traversal, explicit boundaries, and an honest explanation of why the expansion can stop.
hop-0 on the seeds themselves to confirm what problem, method, and lineage they represent.hop-1 from the seeds across the allowed relation types.hop-2 or deeper only from high-signal nodes or when the user explicitly wants a broader map.relevant, adjacent, and not worth further pursuit; do not flatten the graph into one undifferentiated list.