gabrielmoreira Researcher Replan And Recovery
Use this skill when the workflow is no longer safe to continue as planned.
Diagnose First
Classify the failure before acting:
- requirement ambiguity;
- literature or evidence gap;
- experiment design flaw;
- implementation defect;
- execution or infrastructure failure;
- result interpretation mismatch.
Recovery Policy
- Prefer the narrowest correction that preserves the approved objective.
- Fix local failures locally when possible.
- Use targeted evidence supplementation when a specific missing claim blocks progress.
- Only escalate to broad re-planning when the active plan itself is no longer valid.
User Escalation Rule
If recovery changes the core objective, scope, time nodes, or resource assumptions, present a revised plan to the user before dispatching further work.
Anti-Pattern
Do not treat later-stage uncertainty as permission to restart the whole research lifecycle. The default recovery path is targeted repair, not workflow amnesia.