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CLAUDE.md

research-kit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from nguyenvanduocit/research-kit. It costs 2,111 tokens per session, scanned A, original, from a forked repository, MIT.

Project instructions for Research Kit, an open-source toolkit for structured research from defining a topic through analysis and publication. It includes a command-line tool that creates research projects with templates and AI-assistant integrations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to initialise research projects, run checks, develop templates or commands, and test Claude-oriented release packages.
Why use it?
They tell the coding agent how to set up, run, test, and package research projects consistently.

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CLAUDE.md · 200 lines

How it starts

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CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

Research Kit is an open source toolkit for Systematic Research Development (SRD). It provides a research CLI tool that bootstraps research projects with templates, scripts, and slash commands that enable AI research assistants to follow a structured workflow: define research topics, design methodologies, conduct analysis, and prepare publications.

Common Commands

Development & Testing

# Install dependencies and create virtual environment
uv sync

# Run the CLI tool
uv run research --help
uv run research init <research-project-name>
uv run research check

# Test CLI functionality
uv run research init test-research-project --ai claude

Testing Local Changes

When developing templates, commands, or scripts:

# Generate local release packages (replace v1.0.0 with desired version)
./.github/workflows/scripts/create-release-packages.sh v1.0.0

# Copy package to test research project
cp -r .genreleases/research-claude-package/. <path-to-test-research-project>/

# Example for Claude
cp -r .genreleases/research-claude-package/. ~/test-research-project/

# Example for Codex
cp -r .genreleases/research-codex-package/. ~/test-research-project/

Repository Structure

Core Components

  • src/research_cli/__init__.py: Main CLI implementation (Python 3.11+)

    • Handles research project initialization, agent detection, template deployment
    • Supports Claude Code and Codex CLI
    • Features: topic management, template customization, prerequisite checking
  • templates/: Source templates for all generated files

    • commands/*.md: Slash command definitions (/research.define, /research.methodology, /research.analyze, /research.publish, etc.)
    • agents/*.md: Agent definitions (all use agent- prefix):
      • agent-research-assistant.md: Full SRD workflow orchestrator
      • agent-research-reviewer.md: Quality assurance specialist
      • agent-literature-specialist.md: Literature review expert
      • agent-analysis-expert.md: Data analysis specialist
      • agent-data-collector.md: Data collection specialist
      • agent-academic-writer.md: Academic writing specialist
    • skills/research/SKILL.md: SRD workflow orchestrator skill - auto-detects research state and drives workflow forward
    • research-definition-template.md, methodology-template.md, analysis-template.md: Document templates
    • agent-file-template.md: Agent-specific context file template

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research-kit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nguyenvanduocit/research-kit (20 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,111 tokens to every session, about $0.0106 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It comes from a forked repository.

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