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Research / AGENT SKILL
research-planning
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Develop research plans and paper structures with methods, ordered tasks, diagrams, and experiment designs.
Design research plans and paper architectures. Given a research topic or idea, generate structured plans with methodology outlines, paper structure, dependency-ordered task lists, UML diagrams, and experiment designs. Use when starting a new research project or paper.
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# Research Planning
Create comprehensive research plans and paper architectures from a research topic or idea.
## Input
- `$0` — Research topic, idea description, or paper to reproduce
## References
- Planning prompts from Paper2Code, AI-Researcher, AgentLaboratory: `~/.claude/skills/research-planning/references/planning-prompts.md`
- Output schemas and templates: `~/.claude/skills/research-planning/references/output-schemas.md`
## Workflow
### Step 1: Understand the Research Context
- Read any provided papers, code, or references
- Identify the core research question and its significance
- Assess available resources (datasets, compute, existing code)
### Step 2: Generate Research Plan
Use the 4-stage planning approach (adapted from Paper2Code):
1. **Overall Plan** — Strategic overview: methodology, key experiments, evaluation metrics
2. **Architecture Design** — File structure, system design, Mermaid class/sequence diagrams
3. **Logic Design** — Task breakdown with dependencies, required packages, shared knowledge
4. **Configuration** — Extract or specify hyperparameters, training details, config.yaml
### Step 3: Structure the Paper
Design the paper structure with section-by-section plan:
- Abstract, Introduction, Background, Related Work, Methods, Experiments, Results, Discussion/Conclusion
- For each section: key points to cover, required figures/tables, target word count
### Step 4: Create Task Dependency Graph
- Order tasks by dependency (data → model → training → evaluation → writing)
- Identify parallelizable tasks
- Flag risks and potential failure modes
## Output Format
```json
{
"research_question": "...",
"methodology": "...",
"paper_structure": {
"sections": ["Abstract", "Introduction", ...],
"section_plans": { "Introduction": "..." }
},
"task_list": [
{"task": "...", "depends_on": [], "priority": 1}
],
"baselines": ["..."],
"datasets": ["..."],
"evaluation_metrics": ["..."],
"risks": ["..."]
}
```
## Rules
- Each plan component must be detailed and actionable
- Include specific implementation references when available
- Ensure all components work together coherently
- Always include a testing/evaluation plan
- Flag ambiguities explicitly rather than making assumptions
## Related Skills
- Upstream: [idea-generation](../idea-generation/), [literature-review](../literature-review/)
- Downstream: [experiment-design](../experiment-design/), [paper-assembly](../paper-assembly/)
- See also: [atomic-decomposition](../atomic-decomposition/)