investigation
Scaffolds a template for a small investigation for empirical experimentation. Use when the user asks for an investigation, experiment or research to support making design decisions, assess performance or try out a new idea that requires data or an MVP.
- Category: discovered
- Tags: github, community
- Version: 1.0.0
- Author: walid
- Downloads: 0
- GitHub stars: 20
- Updated: 2025-12-22
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SKILL.md
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name: investigation
description: Scaffolds a template for a small investigation for empirical experimentation. Use when the user asks for an investigation, experiment or research to support making design decisions, assess performance or try out a new idea that requires data or an MVP.
---
# Set up an investigation
## Instructions
1. Create a folder in `scratch/` with the format `{YYYY-MM-DD}-{descriptive-name}`. You will mainly work inside this folder.
2. Create a `README.md` in this folder where you will:
1. Describe the task.
2. Take background notes for context.
3. Create a task list for progress tracking.
4. Summarize results and outcomes.
3. Create scripts and testing data files in this folder to conduct an empirical investigation.
4. For multi-step investigations with sub-experiments, consider generating individual markdown files to take interediate notes.
5. The `README.md` should contain actionable findings to support a subsequent implementation or design decision.
## Best practices
- Both for this library and other ones, it's worth writing a simple script or calling the library interactively to list its members or try out different constructions to explore the API and document it in a markdown file called `API.md`.
- Generate figures when applicable (e.g., plots, data visualizations) and reference them inline in the markdown files.
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