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.

Research 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): 1. Overall Plan — Strategic overview: methodology, key experiments, evaluation metrics 2. Architecture Design — File structure, system design, Mermaid class/sequence diagrams 3. Logic Design — Task breakdown with dependencies, required packages, shared knowledge 4. 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 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](../idea generation/), [literature review](../literature review/) Downstream: [experiment design](../experiment design/), [paper assembly](../paper assembly/) See also: [atomic decomposition](../atomic decomposition/)

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