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name: research-request
description: "Condense a research brief into the decision, questions, scope, and required evidence. Use for Research intake, Internal study briefs, Analyst requests."
license: MIT
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Condense the supplied research request into a brief someone can execute without guessing its purpose. Use this for defining a research task, not for performing research or writing its findings.

Lead with the decision the research will inform. Keep the questions that distinguish the available options. Preserve the audience or population, relevant period, geographic scope, exclusions, existing evidence, and access constraints. Separate a required method from a method merely suggested in discussion.

Retain the expected deliverable, its recipient, deadline, and the standard of evidence stated in the request. Flag missing decision-critical information rather than inventing a sample size, budget, recruitment permission, or research result.

Use short sections for Decision, Questions, Scope, and Delivery. Merge duplicate questions only when they ask for the same evidence. Remove background history that does not affect the work. Keep uncertainty and known gaps visible, and do not turn assumptions into established facts.