Scientific Writing — Stage 1: Find the Story

Overview

A research repo accumulates parallel and abandoned experiments. Before any outline or prose, establish ONE linear story: the thesis, the experiments that support it, and an explicit record of what was dropped. Output: docs/writing/<story-slug>/story.md in the consuming repo.

Do not write the story from your own assumptions. Map the repo, then converge with the user.

Process

1. Map the research cloud. Dispatch Explore subagents (read-only) to inventory: experiments/scripts, results/, figures/, notebooks, git log, and CLAUDE.md. Use superpowers:dispatching-parallel-agents if there are independent areas. Goal: a list of every experiment/result thread, each tagged candidate-main vs possibly-dropped.
2. Converge with the user, ONE question at a time. Confirm: the working title, the single thesis, which threads are IN, which are DROPPED. Prefer multiple-choice. Do not proceed to writing until the user confirms the thesis and the in/out split.
3. Write story.md (template below).