What problem does it solve?
This Skill solves the common struggle of turning vague research ideas into concrete, actionable, and rigorous research plans by providing a structured, stage-by-stage coaching framework.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Stage-by-Stage Coaching: Guides researchers through six critical stages: problem definition, related work, methodology, experiments, risks, and milestones.
- Incremental Documentation: Automatically writes and updates research plan files in the project directory, ensuring work is preserved across sessions.
- Quality Assurance: Uses a blind rubric-based review process to ensure every claim has a corresponding experiment and every plan is logically sound.
- Use Case: A researcher has a rough idea for a new machine learning architecture but is unsure how to position it against existing work or design the validation experiments; this Skill asks targeted questions to flesh out the proposal and generate a formal plan file.
Quick Start
Invoke the star-plan-coach skill with your research topic to begin drafting a new plan.