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Researcher Rigor Gate

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Use before plan submission, major plan revision, and major stage transitions. Verify alignment, feasibility, rigor, completeness, and prevent unjustified regressions to earlier workflow phases.

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  3. Review the proposed files and risks before you approve installation.
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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/SpectrAI-Initiative/InnoClaw/blob/HEAD/.claude/skills/researcher-rigor-gate/SKILL.md

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Researcher Rigor Gate

This skill is the main scientific quality gate for the automated research commander.

Four Required Checks

Alignment

  • Does the active plan actually match the user’s current confirmed goal?
  • Are outdated assumptions or rejected directions still leaking into the workflow?

Feasibility

  • Are assignments compatible with the responsible worker roles?
  • Are resources, compute, and time nodes realistic?
  • Are dependencies satisfiable in the current state?

Rigor

  • Are baselines, controls, metrics, and validation logic explicit enough to reproduce?
  • Are conclusions proportional to the available evidence?

Completeness

  • Are any mandatory stages or handoffs missing?
  • Are there unaddressed blockers, contradictions, or risk items?

Anti-Regression Rule

Do not recommend broad early-stage restarts once the workflow has reached a later phase such as experiment design, implementation, execution, synthesis, or final reporting, unless:

  • a specific blocking gap is identified;
  • a narrower correction is not sufficient; and
  • the change is surfaced to the user as a material workflow revision.

Prefer targeted supplementation over phrases like "go back to round 1 literature search."