# Research Prompt Library

Verified-workflow prompts. Replace [bracketed] parts; verify every output.

## Reading
1. "Summarize this paper's ONE core claim, the evidence for it, and its stated limitations. Quote the limitation sentences verbatim."
2. "List every quantitative result in this paper as: metric, value, comparison, sample size."
3. "What would a hostile reviewer attack first in this methods section?"

## Writing
4. "Critique this paragraph for logical gaps. Do NOT rewrite it — list the gaps."
5. "My argument: [X]. Steelman the opposite position in 150 words."
6. "Tighten this abstract to 150 words without losing any quantitative claim."

## Code & analysis
7. "Explain what this script does, then list silent failure modes (NaN handling, joins, off-by-one)."
8. "Write pytest tests covering the edge cases of this function. No mocks of the function itself."
9. "Profile this pipeline description and identify the reproducibility gaps."

## Figures
10. "Given this data description, propose 3 figure designs; for each: what the reader sees in 3 seconds."

## Discipline
- Never ask for citations from memory — retrieve, then verify.
- Anything confidential → local models only.

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