# Research Question Appraisal

> Judge a paper's stated research question against the FINER criteria (Feasible, Interesting, Novel, Ethical, Relevant) — five independent judgments with justification, evaluating the question itself, not the paper's results. Use this whenever the user wants to know whether a paper is asking a good research question, distinct from whether it answered that question well.

- Skill: `yogsoth-ai/research-question-appraisal` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add yogsoth-ai/research-question-appraisal`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/yogsoth-ai/research-question-appraisal/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Research & Search
- Author: yogsoth-ai (https://skillmd.com/u/yogsoth-ai)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/yogsoth-ai/research-question-appraisal

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# Research Question Appraisal

FINER: five independent judgments on the paper's stated research question (not on its execution or results). Structurally closer to a quality-appraisal checklist than to slot-filling — do not merge with question-framing (graph correction M15: PICO/PECO/SPIDER fill slots, FINER judges).

## Execution

Subagent — spawned via spawn-agent skill.

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| spawn-agent | Spawn a customized CC subagent with full MCP tool access. |

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