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Generate empirical research questions based on existing literature and data landscape.
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Based on SOC occupation classification
| name | research-ideas |
| description | Generate empirical research questions based on existing literature and data landscape. |
After major literature additions, or when looking for new directions.
@*.md notes in literature/zotero-notes/ — extract YAML frontmatter (citekey, paper_type, tags, authors, year, journal) and note contentliterature/missing-lit.md, existing strategy memos, literature/synthesis/frontier-map.md, .claude/references/domain-profile.mdliterature/research-ideas.md with date stampPrepend to literature/research-ideas.md:
## YYYY-MM-DD — Research Ideas
### Idea 1: [One-sentence question]
- **Strategy:** [Estimator + variation source]
- **Data:** [Dataset(s) + accessibility]
- **Contribution:** [What's new]
- **Feasibility:** [N]/5
- **Target journal:** [Journal name]
- **Relation:** [How it connects to Papers 1–3]
### Idea 2: ...
End-of-session shutdown sequence. Saves session log, updates MEMORY.md, updates CLAUDE.md, and stages a git commit.
First-time project setup. Checks prerequisites (Zotero MCP), asks for paper count, generates folder structure, and configures all templates.
Peripheral vision audit — find what the author has become blind to in their results. Run in a FRESH TERMINAL.
Safely deprecate a file following the deprecation protocol.
Structured debate between two perspectives on a research design decision.
Find gaps in the literature based on existing Obsidian notes. Searches for high-quality articles the author may have missed.