What problem does it solve?
Research projects in AI and science often fail not from lack of effort, but from lack of rigor—skipping literature review, generating untestable hypotheses, running experiments without locked protocols, and failing to track decisions. This skill enforces a structured, hypothesis-driven workflow that prevents common pitfalls like bias, irreproducibility, and researcher degrees of freedom.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Hypothesis-Driven Research Loop: A 6-phase workflow (Literature Survey → Hypothesis Generation → Judgment Gate → Experiment Design → Experiment Execution → Reflection) that iterates until conclusions are warranted, with explicit transition rules and exit criteria.
- Dual Operating Modes: Clawbot Executor mode for autonomous execution of research tasks, and Research Advisor (Heartbeat) mode for periodic strategic review, rigor auditing, and priority steering.
- Reproducibility-First Artifacts: Maintains a central hypothesis hierarchy and chronological research log, enforces pre-registered analysis plans, locked protocols, and clear confirmatory/exploratory boundaries.
- Use Case: A researcher investigating efficient fine-tuning for small models can use this skill to survey SOTA, generate and judge hypotheses, design locked experiments with ablation plans, execute with sanity checks, and reflect on whether to deepen, broaden, pivot, or conclude.
Quick Start
Invoke the meta-research skill with your research question to begin a structured literature survey and hypothesis generation workflow.