Summary

• adds a self-contained research-assistant-orchestrator module for issue #16
• coordinates peer-review packets, reproducibility runbooks, and research-gap opportunity feeds into one deterministic action plan
• includes a local read-only API, sample data, requirement map, tests, and a short demo GIF

Verification

• npm test
• node --check src/research-assistant.js && node --check src/demo.js && node --check src/api.js && node --check src/sample-data.js && node --check test/research-assistant.test.js
• npm run demo smoke: urban-heat-health paper-b 3
• file research-assistant-orchestrator/docs/demo.gif
• git diff --check

Transparency: AI-assisted with Codex. The module is credential-free and uses deterministic in-repo sample data rather than live model calls.

@algora-pbc /claim #16