Research Defense Deck
A twelve-page research defense connecting a clear question to reproducible methods, traceable observations, competing explanations and a bounded next test. Includes editable local HTML/CSS, twelve real PNG exports, a twelve-page PDF and substantial speaker notes.
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RELEASED v1.0.0A closer look at the actual output.
Complete twelve-page generated sample with twelve 1600 × 900 PNG exports, a twelve-page PDF and speaker notes. All sample organizations, research and incident data are fictional.
THE COMPLETE TEMPLATE
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1600 × 900 canvas · scaled evenly to fitUse the preview’s own scroll and keyboard controls.
Inside this template
12 pages- Research question
- Research gap
- Method & boundaries
- Protocol & sampling
- Evidence register
- Defensible interpretation
- Competing explanations
- Limitations
- Application boundaries
- Defense prompts
- Next discriminating test
- References
A GUIDED LOOK
The whole story, in motion.
A screen recording of this working demo, covering 12 slides. This is a guided preview, not a video exported by the Skill.
In this walkthrough
- The quiet value of a pause
- What remains unanswered.
- How the question was studied.
- Make the study reproducible.
- Three observations. Traceable origins.
- In this small synthetic study, prompted analysts named more uncertainties. Decision quality itself remains unproven.
- What else could explain this?
- Where the answer stops.
- Use the finding with its conditions.
- Questions worth preparing for.
- Run a preregistered transfer task with neutral instructions, blinded decision-quality scoring and a prospectively justified sample.
- Trace the argument to its sources.
- Tested runtime
- Node.js 24.19.0 · macOS arm64 · Chromium 153.0.8010.12
- Pinned dependency
- Playwright 1.63.0 · local fonts · no external page requests
- Checks completed
- Normal and boundary briefs, task-specific semantic validation, no-overwrite safety, all-page responsive geometry and contrast, keyboard/notes/print behavior and actual PNG/PDF inspection.
Normal and boundary checks, independent original-brief workflow and full-content visual review completed.
HTML, PNG, PDF and speaker notes; no editable PPTX. Emulated Chromium viewports; physical devices, automatic agent discovery and non-Latin typography require separate review.
From a good brief to a better result.
A twelve-page research defense connecting a clear question to reproducible methods, traceable observations, competing explanations and a bounded next test. Includes editable local HTML/CSS, twelve real PNG exports, a twelve-page PDF and substantial speaker notes. The published package has its own version, tested environments, and included outputs listed alongside this overview. Any earlier draft samples below retain their original verification scope.
What you bring
- A supplied research question, methods, evidence and source locators
- Competing explanations, limitations, application boundaries and defense answers
What you’ll make
- Twelve editable HTML/CSS presentation pages
- Twelve opaque 1600 × 900 PNG exports and a twelve-page PDF
- Speaker notes, keyboard navigation and responsive reading layout
- Validated task-specific JSON brief and export manifest
The intended workflow
- Shape the supplied facts into the task-specific input contract
- Generate editable source in a new local directory
- Inspect all twelve pages and notes, then export actual PNG/PDF files