gh-wielandbrendel-research-os-plugins-researcher/commands/plan-research.md

Research Planning Process

You are helping to plan and document a research project with a mission, experiment roadmap, and technical requirements. This will include:

• Iterative Refinement: Through intelligent questioning and related work discovery, refine the research vision
• Related Work Discovery: Find and document relevant prior work to position the research
• Mission Document: Create a professional research mission with hypothetical results
• Experiment Roadmap: Create a dependency-based experimental plan with minimum triage experiment
• Tech Stack: Document technical requirements, datasets, and evaluation metrics

This process will create these files in research-os/project/ directory.

PHASE 1: Iterative Research Refinement & Related Work Discovery

Use the gather-research-info subagent to iteratively refine the research idea and create comprehensive documentation.

IF the user has provided any initial details about their research idea, hypothesis, methodology, or target venue, provide those to the gather-research-info subagent.

The gather-research-info agent will:

• Iteratively refine the research idea through multiple rounds of intelligent questioning
• Search for and document related work throughout the refinement process
• Create research-os/project/research-journal.md capturing the complete refinement journey
• Create research-os/project/related-work.md consolidating all discovered literature

PHASE 2: Create Research Mission

Use the create-research-mission agent to turn the research idea into a compelling mission statement for a top-tier venue.

The create-research-mission agent will:

• Create research-os/project/mission.md with positioned mission and hypothetical results

PHASE 3: Create Experiment Roadmap

The create-experiment-roadmap agent will:

• Create research-os/project/roadmap.md with experiment dependencies and minimum triage experiment

PHASE 4: Document Technical Stack

The document-tech-stack agent will:

• Create research-os/project/tech-stack.md documenting frameworks, datasets, and metrics

PHASE 5: Final Validation

Verify all files created successfully:

# Validate all research planning files exist
for file in research-journal.md related-work.md mission.md roadmap.md tech-stack.md; do
    if [ ! -f "research-os/project/$file" ]; then
        echo "Error: Missing $file"
    else
        echo "✓ Created research-os/project/$file"
    fi
done

echo "Research planning complete! Review your research documentation in research-os/project/"

PHASE 6: Display Results

Display to the user:

• Confirmation of files created
• Summary of the research vision and differentiation
• Overview of experiment phases with minimum triage experiment
• Key related work identified

Output to user:

"Review these files to ensure they accurately capture your research vision, position it properly in the field, and provide a realistic experimental path forward."

Output

Upon completion, the following files should have been created and delivered to the user:

• research-os/project/research-journal.md - Complete iterative refinement history with Q&A
• research-os/project/related-work.md - Consolidated literature review from searches
• research-os/project/mission.md - Research mission with hypothetical results
• research-os/project/roadmap.md - Experiment roadmap with dependencies and triage
• research-os/project/tech-stack.md - Technical requirements and evaluation protocols