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Use when the user wants a technical report, topic report, research briefing, structured investigation, evidence synthesis, recommendations, or final report packaging.

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Technical Report Workflow

Create a report-oriented workflow for investigation, synthesis, and recommendation.

Purpose

This skill handles the cases that are not quite a paper and not just raw notes:

  • technical survey reports
  • topic briefings
  • special-topic investigations
  • advisor or team-facing research reports

It does not replace the deeper analysis skills. Instead, it decides which analysis path to use and then shapes the result into a report.

When To Use

Use this skill when the user wants:

  • a technical report
  • a topic or special-subject report
  • a research briefing for a team, supervisor, or project
  • a recommendation memo grounded in literature

If the user mainly wants:

  • a literature review article: use /literature-review
  • an open-problem analysis: use /research-gap
  • a slide deck: use /document

Workflow

1. Clarify Report Goal

Identify:

  • who the report is for
  • whether the report is explanatory, comparative, or decision-support
  • whether the user wants conclusions only or also recommendations
  • whether the report is meant to stay as Markdown or become a formal DOCX/PPTX deliverable

2. Choose The Analysis Backbone

Use one primary path:

Report typeRoute
State-of-the-art / what is known/literature-review
Open questions / what is missing/research-gap
User's own project update or method summary/paper-writing

3. Build A Report Structure

Recommended default structure:

  1. Executive summary
  2. Scope and question definition
  3. Evidence base or literature coverage
  4. Comparative analysis
  5. Risks, limitations, or disagreements
  6. Recommendations / next steps
  7. References

Adjust by audience:

  • supervisor or PI: prioritize takeaways and decisions
  • technical team: prioritize trade-offs, methods, constraints
  • self-study memo: prioritize structure and evidence trail

4. Package The Deliverable

  • Use /document when the report should be turned into a formal DOCX or presentation.
  • Use /citation-check before final delivery if the report contains generated author-year citations.
  • Use /export if the user wants a bibliography bundle alongside the report.

Output Pattern

Recommended outputs inside workspace/<name>/:

  • technical-report-outline.md
  • technical-report.md
  • references.bib
  • packaged deliverable from /document if requested

Principles

  • Decision-oriented structure: reports should help someone act, not only read.
  • Separation of layers: analysis comes from existing writing/research skills; this skill organizes it into a report.
  • Audience-aware emphasis: same evidence, different structure for different readers.
  • Honest scope: packaging is currently routed through /document; do not imply a separate report generator backend.

Example

用户说："帮我写一个这个方向的技术调研报告，给组会用" → 用本 skill 先明确 audience 和结构，再转 /literature-review 或 /research-gap 形成分析主体，最后接 /document