Discovery phase workflows for research interviews, literature review, data discovery, and ideation. Use when the user asks to scope a topic, review the literature, find datasets, or generate viable research designs.
name discover description Discovery phase workflows for research interviews, literature review, data discovery, and ideation. Use when the user asks to scope a topic, review the literature, find datasets, or generate viable research designs. Discover Launch the discovery phase and route to the appropriate worker-critic pair based on the user's need. Read First AGENTS.md plugins/clo-author/references/runtime-activation.md plugins/clo-author/references/codex-workflow.md plugins/clo-author/references/agent-catalog.md plugins/clo-author/references/domain-profile.md plugins/clo-author/references/logging.md Modes interview / scoping literature review data discovery research ideation Interview / Scoping Use a structured conversational interview when the project is still vague. Suggested sequence: big picture and motivation theoretical intuition data and setting identification possibilities and threats expected results contribution relative to the literature Produce a research specification in quality_reports/ and calibrate the domain profile when the repo is still in template mode. Literature Review Dispatch: Librarian to collect and synthesize sources librarian-critic to check coverage, recency, gaps, and scope drift Workflow: read existing specs, notes, and bibliography files browse when the frontier or publication status may have changed search top journals, field journals, and working-paper venues follow citation chains forward and backward from the most relevant papers save the synthesis under quality_reports/ If the librarian-critic finds material gaps, re-dispatch Librarian once for a targeted follow-up rather than silently accepting incomplete coverage. Data Discovery Dispatch: Explorer to build the ranked inventory explorer-critic to stress-test feasibility and measurement Each data candidate should report: source and access level key variables coverage likely unit of observation feasibility grade identification fit with the proposed question Save the inventory in quality_reports/ . Research Ideation Use ideation when the user wants candidate paper ideas rather than a committed project. Outputs should include: a short list of viable questions likely treatment/outcome variation candidate data sources the next best workflow step: strategize, more discovery, or abandon Outputs research spec or scoping memo in quality_reports/ literature memo in quality_reports/ data inventory in quality_reports/ updated domain-profile inputs when field calibration changes Append research-journal entries when discovery artefacts materially change project direction.