nanoresearch-planning

Research

Produce an experiment blueprint from a research hypothesis

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Planning Skill

Purpose

Take the selected hypothesis from ideation and produce a detailed experiment blueprint specifying datasets, baselines, evaluation metrics, and ablation groups.

Tools Required

None. This skill operates entirely through LLM reasoning over the ideation output.

Input

ideation_output: Path to papers/ideation_output.json produced by the ideation skill

Process

Parse the selected hypothesis and supporting literature from the ideation output
Identify candidate datasets that are publicly available and appropriate for validating the hypothesis
Select 2-4 baseline methods from the surveyed literature for comparison
Define primary and secondary evaluation metrics aligned with the hypothesis
Design ablation groups that isolate each novel component of the proposed approach
Estimate computational requirements and timeline for each experiment
Compile everything into a structured experiment blueprint

Output

Produces papers/experiment_blueprint.json containing:

Selected hypothesis (carried forward)
Dataset specifications (name, source, splits, preprocessing steps)
Baseline methods with references
Evaluation metrics and success criteria
Ablation study design (groups, variables, expected outcomes)
Resource estimates and experiment schedule