What problem does it solve? Research projects often stall or become unattributable when too many changes are made at once. This Skill enforces a disciplined adaptation phase where exactly one mapped candidate from the literature is implemented as the smallest possible, attributable modification before any screening training begins. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Structured Adaptation Spec: Writes a research/ADAPTATION.md file capturing the candidate id, source papers, causal path to the primary metric, files to change, and rollback path. - Narrow Implementation Guardrails: Restricts changes to one coherent primitive, preserves the fixed evaluation protocol and protected data split, and forbids tuning multiple alternatives at once. - Phase-Gate Workflow: Advances adaptation -> screening only when the candidate is runnable and attributable, or returns to mapping with outcome invalid if the mechanism cannot be implemented as mapped. - Use Case: After contribution mapping identifies a promising attention mechanism from a paper, use this Skill to implement just that mechanism in the project codebase, add focused unit tests, run a smoke test, and record the diff before any training. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to select one mapped candidate and implement its smallest attributable adaptation for screening.
