domains / families / research / new-project
Start a new research project by conducting a structured interview to formalize a research idea, then generates research questions with identification strategies and a project spec. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to develop or document a new research idea — not to search for literature or data. Triggers include: "new project", "start research", "I have an idea", "help me develop this", "I want to study X", "help me formalize this idea", "what's my research question", "what identification strategy should I use", "write up my project idea", or when the user describes a topic they want to turn into a paper. Initialize a new project with deep context gathering and PROJECT.md
The two skills share the name 'new-project' but perform fundamentally different tasks. The first is a software engineering workflow that initializes a project by creating a .planning/ directory structure (PROJECT.md, ROADMAP.md, etc.) and running a multi-step workflow with gates and commits. The second is a social science research workflow that conducts a structured interview to formalize a research idea, generates research questions with identification strategies, and saves a project spec to quality_reports/. They do not overlap in procedure, output, or domain, so crowning one would hide a real alternative.