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# Research Contract
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Use this contract to carry research state across Claude Scholar workflows.
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The goal is to preserve:
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- what question is being studied,
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- what evidence currently exists,
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- what claim is allowed by that evidence,
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- what uncertainty remains,
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- what decision or next action should happen.
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## Research Question Card
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Use this card when a vague idea becomes a research direction.
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```md
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## Research Question Card
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Question:
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Type: exploratory | confirmatory | applied
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Hypothesis:
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Why it matters:
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Current evidence:
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Missing evidence:
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What would support it:
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What would falsify it:
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Minimal next action:
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Decision: explore | read more | run experiment | stop
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```
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## Evidence Record
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Use this record for paper evidence, project notes, experiment outputs, and analysis artifacts.
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```md
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## Evidence Record
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Evidence ID:
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Source:
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Source type: full paper | preprint | dataset | experiment artifact | project note | abstract-only | webpage placeholder
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Supports:
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Contradicts:
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Method / dataset / metric:
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Limitation:
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Project relevance:
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Claim strength: speculative | observed | supported | strong
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```
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Evidence ID format:
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- Use `ER-YYYYMMDD-shortslug-NN`, for example `ER-20260513-tta-eeg-01`.
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- Keep IDs unique within the project or research thread.
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- Use stable, human-readable slugs. Do not use vague IDs such as `E1`, `paper1`, or `source-a`.
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- Reuse the same Evidence ID when the same evidence record is referenced downstream; create a new ID only for a distinct source, artifact, or analysis result.
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## Claim Candidate
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Use this candidate when an analysis or synthesis suggests language that may later enter a report, paper, rebuttal, or project plan.
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```md
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## Claim Candidate
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Claim:
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Source evidence:
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Allowed wording:
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Forbidden stronger wording:
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Uncertainty:
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Next check:
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Decision: keep | weaken | revise | discard
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```
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## Source Trust Levels
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Use source trust to decide whether a note can support downstream synthesis.
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- `full paper` / `preprint`: can support `observed`, `supported`, or `strong` claims when the relevant method, dataset, metric, and limitation are named.
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- `dataset` / `experiment artifact`: can support project claims when the unit of analysis, metric, provenance, and analysis limits are named.
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- `project note`: can support hypotheses and plans, but not literature-backed claims unless it links to separate evidence records.
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- `abstract-only` / `webpage placeholder`: can support discovery and `To-Read` routing only. Do not use it to support `Knowledge`, manuscript, or rebuttal claims unless it is later replaced by a full paper, preprint, or verified artifact.
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## Claim Promotion Gate
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Before a claim moves into `Knowledge`, `Writing`, a report, a manuscript draft, or a rebuttal, check:
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1. The claim has at least one Evidence Record ID.
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2. The source type is strong enough for the intended claim.
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3. The claim strength is not silently upgraded.
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4. The allowed wording and forbidden stronger wording are both recorded.
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5. Contradictory evidence or missing evidence is preserved.
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If any item fails, keep the claim as a hypothesis, motivation, warning, or `To-Read` item. Do not polish it into a durable conclusion.
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## Proposal Readiness Gate
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Generate a `research-proposal.md` only when:
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- one Research Question Card is selected,
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- current evidence is enough to justify the question and method,
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- missing evidence is explicit and tractable,
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- the minimal next action is more specific than "read more",
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- citations or evidence records are available for the key motivation claims.
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If these conditions are not met, generate `research-question-card.md`, a gap note, or an intake summary instead of a proposal.
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## Strength Rules
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- `speculative`: plausible idea, weak or indirect evidence only.
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- `observed`: seen in a paper, note, or experiment, but not yet enough for a durable conclusion.
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- `supported`: backed by explicit evidence such as a paper result, experiment, or analysis bundle.
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- `strong`: supported by multiple evidence anchors or statistically rigorous project evidence.
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Do not promote a claim to a stronger level without naming the evidence that justifies the upgrade.
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