apply-question-framework

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Lets your agent turn a vague research question into a structured schema suited to the study type.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the apply-question-framework skill

About this skill

Select and instantiate a research-question schema appropriate to study type.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine in skills/apply-question-framework/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Purpose

Structure an underspecified research question with a declared question framework.

Input contract

required: [question, research_context, framework]
optional: [population, intervention, comparator, outcome, time_horizon]
constraints: [framework fields must be instantiated or marked unknown]

Procedure

  1. Select the framework matching the question type.
  2. Map the question into its required fields.
  3. Mark missing, ambiguous, and non-applicable fields.
  4. Emit the structured question and scope decisions.

Output contract

produces: [structured_question, field_map, missing_fields, scope_decisions]
delta_fields: [findings, decisions, uncertainties, open_questions]

Quality gates

  • Every populated field traces to the input question or context.
  • Framework choice is justified.

Failure and counterexamples

Do not force a causal question into a descriptive framework or fill absent fields from convention.

Provenance map

  • resolved: apply-question-framework

Signals

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Last commit
Sep 2026
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apply-question-framework
Source
github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine