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One reactive entry point that helps users explore, choose, plan, or review a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods research design.
npx skills add Reactive-Skills/skills --skill research-design-plannernpx -y @reactive-skills/axi invoke research-design-planner34
Hierarchical nodes
INIT
Bootstrap entrypoint
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Whitelisted for safety
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Automated projections
Visual state machine topology parsed directly from the official STATECHART.md in Reactive-Skills/skills:
Each state is an isolated operational slice. Transitions occur only when typed signals satisfy programmatic guard conditions.
Verify access to the reactive runtime.
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Explain the runtime setup requirement and wait for a user-controlled retry.
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Accept a complete request or a starting point, including uncertainty.
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Resolve one decision or missing detail at a time.
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Composite routing and bounded method selection.
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Select the smallest useful work path.
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payload.decision_kind === "route_task" && ["explore_or_clarify_goal","choose_research_approach","work_on_proposal_section","plan_quantitative_methods","plan_qualitative_methods","plan_mixed_methods","review_existing_plan","other"].includes(payload.choice)payload.decision_kind === "route_task" && ["explore_or_clarify_goal","choose_research_approach","work_on_proposal_section","plan_quantitative_methods","plan_qualitative_methods","plan_mixed_methods","review_existing_plan","other"].includes(payload.choice)judgment: categorical (min 70%) → fallback: CLARIFYSelect or recommend a research approach from the stated problem and purpose.
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payload.decision_kind === "research_approach" && ["quantitative","qualitative","mixed_methods","other"].includes(payload.choice)payload.decision_kind === "research_approach" && ["quantitative","qualitative","mixed_methods","other"].includes(payload.choice)judgment: categorical (min 70%) → fallback: CLARIFYSelect or recommend a survey or experimental design.
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payload.decision_kind === "quantitative_design" && ["survey","experiment","other"].includes(payload.choice)payload.decision_kind === "quantitative_design" && ["survey","experiment","other"].includes(payload.choice)judgment: categorical (min 70%) → fallback: CLARIFYSelect or recommend a qualitative strategy.
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payload.decision_kind === "qualitative_strategy" && ["narrative","phenomenology","ethnography","case_study","grounded_theory","other"].includes(payload.choice)payload.decision_kind === "qualitative_strategy" && ["narrative","phenomenology","ethnography","case_study","grounded_theory","other"].includes(payload.choice)judgment: categorical (min 70%) → fallback: CLARIFYSelect or recommend a mixed methods design.
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payload.decision_kind === "mixed_methods_design" && ["convergent","explanatory_sequential","exploratory_sequential","complex","other"].includes(payload.choice)payload.decision_kind === "mixed_methods_design" && ["convergent","explanatory_sequential","exploratory_sequential","complex","other"].includes(payload.choice)judgment: categorical (min 70%) → fallback: CLARIFYRoute a validated choice using exact membership and decision-kind checks.
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context.decision_kind === "route_task" && context.selected_choice === "explore_or_clarify_goal"context.decision_kind === "route_task" && context.selected_choice === "choose_research_approach"context.decision_kind === "route_task" && context.selected_choice === "work_on_proposal_section"(context.decision_kind === "route_task" && context.selected_choice === "plan_quantitative_methods") || (context.decision_kind === "research_approach" && context.selected_choice === "quantitative")(context.decision_kind === "route_task" && context.selected_choice === "plan_qualitative_methods") || (context.decision_kind === "research_approach" && context.selected_choice === "qualitative")(context.decision_kind === "route_task" && context.selected_choice === "plan_mixed_methods") || (context.decision_kind === "research_approach" && context.selected_choice === "mixed_methods")context.decision_kind === "quantitative_design" && context.selected_choice === "survey"context.decision_kind === "quantitative_design" && context.selected_choice === "experiment"context.decision_kind === "qualitative_strategy" && ["narrative","phenomenology","ethnography","case_study","grounded_theory"].includes(context.selected_choice)context.decision_kind === "mixed_methods_design" && ["convergent","explanatory_sequential","exploratory_sequential","complex"].includes(context.selected_choice)context.decision_kind === "route_task" && context.selected_choice === "review_existing_plan"context.selected_choice === "other" || context.selected_choice == null || context.judgment_fallback === trueComposite foundations for problem framing, literature, theory, writing, and ethics.
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Shape a feasible research problem from a topic or concern.
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Frame a literature review, gap, and role for theory or a conceptual framework.
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Apply writing and ethics considerations throughout the design.
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Composite route for introduction, purpose or aim, and questions or hypotheses.
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Choose the requested proposal section and load only that prompt.
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Build the proposal introduction and justify the study.
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State the study purpose or aim and its alignment.
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Form questions or quantitative hypotheses aligned with the purpose.
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Composite survey, experiment, analysis, preregistration, and validity path.
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Plan survey purpose, population, sampling, instrument, administration, and analysis.
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Plan an experiment, comparison, assignment, measures, procedure, and analysis.
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Align quantitative analysis, preregistration, validity, reliability, and interpretation.
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Composite qualitative strategy, access, sampling, collection, analysis, and reporting path.
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Plan strategy-specific access, researcher role, sampling, and collection.
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Plan iterative analysis, validation, and qualitative reporting.
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Composite mixed methods strand procedures, integration, and interpretation path.
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Plan both strands and align order, priority, and timing with the selected design.
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Specify integration points, joint displays, and mixed methods interpretations.
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Produce the requested focused design brief or proposal section outline.
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Requested research design work has been delivered.
Runtime is unavailable or a required operation failed.
Terminal recovery state for work outside the reactive signal contract.
Inspect or drive this state machine directly via the token-efficient AXI CLI:
Check state:
Inspect hierarchy:
Tail events:
Runtime variables persisted across state transitions:
requested_taskstudy_topicresearch_problemresearch_purposeintended_audienceresearch_questionshypothesesworldviewliterature_gaptheory_or_frameworkdecision_kindselected_choiceselected_approachquantitative_designqualitative_strategymixed_methods_designdesign_notesethics_notesmissing_informationreview_modeoutput_scopejudgment_fallbackAdd to your Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code settings:
{
"mcpServers": {
"reactive-skills": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@reactive-skills/axi",
"mcp"
]
}
}
}