What problem does it solve? Researchers in social sciences and humanities often lose track of where they are in the research lifecycle—unsure whether they are stuck at topic anchoring, research design, or contribution framing—and receive generic advice with no traceable scholarly basis. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Stage Localization: Maps your situation onto a three-layer, four-step architecture (Anchor → Execute → Converge) with diagnostic questions for each stage. - Source-Traced Guidance: Every diagnostic question and recommendation cites the scholar and material it derives from (e.g., 李怀祖's hypothesis tree, 陆铭's topic-to-question distance), with no unsourced generic advice. - Sub-Skill Routing: Hands off deep diagnosis to specialized sub-skills—topic-problematization for topic selection, research-execution for design and method justification, research-contribution for contribution framing. - Use Case: A PhD student says "I'm stuck on my thesis and don't know why." The skill locates them in the Anchor layer, asks whether they can state their research question in one sentence, then routes them to topic-problematization for deep diagnosis. ## Quick Start Tell the assistant "I'm stuck in my research, help me figure out which stage I'm in" and answer its diagnostic questions.
