Use during or after manuscript writing to verify every quantitative claim traces to actual data, every figure is script-generated, and all results including negative ones are reported
Use when starting any conversation involving research, hypotheses, experiments, data analysis, scientific claims, or manuscript writing — establishes how to find and use Eureka research skills
Use when a research design has been approved and needs to be broken into executable experiment steps — the research equivalent of an implementation plan
Use when creating, updating, or reviewing a research figure (plot, chart, brain map, heatmap, schematic) — guides chart-type selection, typography, colorblind-safe palette, layout, and journal-specific export specs. Dispatches a figure-reviewer subagent after rendering. Complements claims-audit (which checks figure integrity) by checking figure design.
Use when running any experiment or analysis — hypothesis and analysis plan must be registered before seeing results, the scientific equivalent of test-driven development
Use when writing a research manuscript — guides section-by-section writing with prerequisite gates, citation discipline, number traceability, and per-section subagent review. Activated after experiment results are reviewed and before claims-audit.
Use when an experiment phase is complete, before drawing conclusions, before writing results, or before claiming findings are publication-ready
You MUST use this before any experiment, analysis, or scientific claim — when a research question, hypothesis, study design, or scientific approach needs to be defined or refined