Use when the user is new to a research direction and wants to scan papers to understand branches, representative works, common methods, benchmarks, metrics, saturated areas, and unclear areas.
Use when the user knows the broad field and reads papers to find concrete, researchable, experimentally testable gaps or research questions.
Use when the user wants to stress-test whether one selected Research Question Card's problem is real, evidence-backed, externally grounded, safely motivated, and worth keeping as a research motivation.
Use when the user has a research problem but needs theoretical foundations, conceptual lineage, or research traditions that support the problem framing.
Use when the user has a rough problem and reads papers to collect transferable modeling ideas, architectures, training flows, optimization objectives, agent pipelines, or data construction methods.
Use when the user has a selected Candidate Method, multiple Candidate Methods to merge, a user-authored rough method, or a reconstructed chat method and wants to converge on one human-owned method outcome before experiment design, research framing, or risk review.
Use when the user has a method idea or Committed Method Design and reads papers to design tasks, datasets, baselines, metrics, ablations, human evaluation, user studies, or a claim-to-evidence experiment plan.
Use when one research source chain is stable enough to turn into paper framing or a provisional framing sketch by comparing closest related works, checking claim-level citation support, clarifying positioning and differentiation, and producing a writing blueprint.