Nanoresearch Planning

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