Research feeder for thesis and long-form writing. thesis-engine does the cold-start work before you can write: it scans a field for live, low-competition topics, gathers primary sources across five research axes, and emits research notes plus a BibTeX bibliography ready to drop into a thesis project. An optional stage adapts the same research into a Smart Brevity blog draft. Four commands across three stages: discover, write, run, and blog. Pairs with vibe-thesis — the engine feeds, the thesis tooling drafts.