Maintain research state
SkillDatabases & dataMaintain and publish the advisor-owned current research state, durable research-ideas syntheses, and dataset analysis. Use when evidence or human guidance changes the research focus or direction, durable research ideas should be recorded, or dataset understanding changes.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the Maintain research state skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by wandb/senpai in plugins/senpai/skills/maintain-research-state/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Read the program.md identified in the system prompt. It is authoritative for
target-specific objectives, metrics, constraints, protected files, and any
baseline or research-log format.
Maintain these advisor-owned artifacts:
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Keep
research/CURRENT_RESEARCH_STATE.mdas a living, pruned view of the current high-level focus, themes, hypotheses, experiments, and potential next directions. Do not use it as an archive or experiment-by-experiment log. Use this schema:# SENPAI Research State - <current date and time> - <most recent research direction from human researcher team> - <current research focus and themes> - <list of potential next research directions and themes> -
Optionally record durable research or round-planning synthesis in
research/RESEARCH_IDEAS_<YYYY-MM-DD_HH:MM>.md. -
Save rigorous dataset analysis and durable future dataset insights in
research/DATASET_ANALYSIS.md.
Commit only advisor-owned changes. Read the current remote advisor-branch SHA
and the local commit SHA, then call publish_advisor_branch:
{
"remote_branch_sha_before_push": "REMOTE_SHA_BEFORE_PUSH",
"local_commit_sha": "LOCAL_COMMIT_SHA"
}
Do not publish the advisor branch with git push.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 34
- Forks
- 5
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
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maintain-research-state- Source
- github.com/wandb/senpai