# Research Brief

> **Template for document-based input to `/idea-discovery` or `/research-pipeline`.** Provide detailed context instead of a one-line prompt.
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> **Length guideline:** keep the core brief to **1–2 pages (~4–8k chars)**. The research-wiki `query_pack.md` that downstream skills consume is hard-capped at 8,000 chars — an oversized brief crowds out gaps / failed-ideas / paper context. Put long material (full notes, logs, draft text) in separate files and reference them by path.

## Problem Statement
[2-3 paragraphs: What is broken/missing in current approaches?]

## Background
- **Field**: [e.g., NLP, CV, RL]
- **Sub-area**: [e.g., discrete diffusion models]
- **Key papers I've read**: [3-5 papers]
- **What I already tried**: [Prior experiments]
- **What didn't work**: [Failed attempts and why]

## Constraints
- **Compute**: [e.g., 8x RTX 3090, 100 GPU-hours]
- **Timeline**: [e.g., 3 months to submission]
- **Target venue**: [e.g., NeurIPS 2026]

## What I'm Looking For
- [ ] New research direction from scratch
- [ ] Improvement on existing method: [which?]
- [ ] Diagnostic study / analysis paper
- [ ] Other: [describe]

## Domain Knowledge
[Intuitions, hypotheses, domain-specific insights]

## Non-Goals
[What you do NOT want to work on]

## Existing Results (if any)
[Preliminary results, tables, observations — even negative results help]