Research Planning Skill for Claude
Design research plans and paper architectures. Given a research topic or idea, generate structured plans with methodology outlines, paper structure, dependency-ordered task lists, UML diagrams, and experiment designs. Use when starting a new research project or paper.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/lingzhi227/agent-research-skills --skill research-planningThe instruction itself
11 sections, as written by the authorResearch Planning
Create comprehensive research plans and paper architectures from a research topic or idea.
Input
$0— Research topic, idea description, or paper to reproduce
References
- Planning prompts from Paper2Code, AI-Researcher, AgentLaboratory:
~/.claude/skills/research-planning/references/planning-prompts.md - Output schemas and templates:
~/.claude/skills/research-planning/references/output-schemas.md
Workflow
Step 1: Understand the Research Context
- Read any provided papers, code, or references
- Identify the core research question and its significance
- Assess available resources (datasets, compute, existing code)
Step 2: Generate Research Plan
Use the 4-stage planning approach (adapted from Paper2Code):
- Overall Plan — Strategic overview: methodology, key experiments, evaluation metrics
- Architecture Design — File structure, system design, Mermaid class/sequence diagrams
- Logic Design — Task breakdown with dependencies, required packages, shared knowledge
- Configuration — Extract or specify hyperparameters, training details, config.yaml
Step 3: Structure the Paper
Design the paper structure with section-by-section plan:
- Abstract, Introduction, Background, Related Work, Methods, Experiments, Results, Discussion/Conclusion
- For each section: key points to cover, required figures/tables, target word count
Step 4: Create Task Dependency Graph
- Order tasks by dependency (data → model → training → evaluation → writing)
- Identify parallelizable tasks
- Flag risks and potential failure modes
Output Format
{
"research_question": "...",
"methodology": "...",
"paper_structure": {
"sections": ["Abstract", "Introduction", ...],
"section_plans": { "Introduction": "..." }
},
"task_list": [
{"task": "...", "depends_on": [], "priority": 1}
],
"baselines": ["..."],
"datasets": ["..."],
"evaluation_metrics": ["..."],
"risks": ["..."]
}
Rules
- Each plan component must be detailed and actionable
- Include specific implementation references when available
- Ensure all components work together coherently
- Always include a testing/evaluation plan
- Flag ambiguities explicitly rather than making assumptions
Related Skills
- Upstream: idea-generation, literature-review
- Downstream: experiment-design, paper-assembly
- See also: atomic-decomposition
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