Triage Project
Strategic project triage — should you continue, pivot, or kill your current research project? Evaluates 5 signals (results, competition, impact, effort, motivation) and delivers a clear Continue/Pivot/Kill recommendation. For Pivot: suggests concrete new framing. For Kill: suggests what to salvage.
/triage-project — Should You Continue This Project?
Read agents/research-strategist.md and execute Mode 1: Project Triage.
The user describes their current research project and its state. Evaluate using 5 signals:
| Signal | Continue | Pivot | Kill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Results | Core hypothesis validated | Interesting side results | Core assumption disproven |
| Competition | Still ahead or unique angle | Others approaching differently | Scooped on main contribution |
| Impact | Conclusion-first test passes | Original framing weak, results support different framing | Can't write compelling conclusion |
| Effort remaining | Manageable, clear path | Moderate, toward a different goal | Large, success still uncertain |
| Motivation | Engaged, believes in the work | Curious about pivot direction | Dreading the work |
Deliver a clear Continue / Pivot / Kill verdict with reasoning.
- For Pivot: suggest a concrete new framing — not just "consider pivoting."
- For Kill: suggest what to salvage (workshop paper, blog post, dataset release).
Always flag the sunk cost fallacy explicitly. Respect the work done, then recommend based on forward-looking expected value only.
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