refining-problem

What problem does it solve?

Convert a rough research idea or informal problem statement into a precise, research-ready formulation and produce a canonical problem.md that captures scope, unknowns, success criteria, constraints, and literature-backed background. The Skill autonomously conducts literature mapping, iteratively refines the problem statement, and determines whether novel research is required based on the mapped prior work.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Autonomous literature-driven refinement: Launches background research agents to synthesize definitions, prior work, and boundary conditions for the problem.
• Structured problem authoring: Creates and edits a standardized problem.md from a template with sections for scope, key unknowns, success criteria, constraints, and background.
• Novelty assessment and checkpointing: Iteratively evaluates problem quality, launches targeted research to fill gaps, and sets an immutable novelty requirement informed by literature.

Quick Start

Refine the problem slug dark-matter with initial description "What accounts for missing mass in galaxy rotation?" into a research-ready problem and output the finalized problem.md in a new problem directory.