Experiment Design Planner

Purpose

Help the user plan experiments that can actually answer a research question. This skill is based on the handbook's experiment design principles: start simple, begin with baselines, change one variable at a time, state hypotheses before running, and document negative results.

The output is an experiment plan that can be run, logged, and later explained in a paper or advisor meeting.

When to Use

• User wants to run a new experiment or ablation
• User has unclear or noisy experimental results
• User is preparing baselines and metrics
• User is changing several model or data choices at once
• User needs a reproducible experiment plan before using cluster time

Workflow

Stage 1: State the Research Question