A portable research workflow for products, scientific literature, device failures, markets, and technology. Source verification, causal discipline, implementation and action-plan handoffs, and Karpathy-inspired working principles. Responds in the language of the research request.
Install
- 1Add it in ChatGPT
Open Plugins in the ChatGPT sidebar (web or desktop), search for “Research Methodology” and select +. You'll be asked to sign in to any connected service on first use. Then type @ in a chat to call it.
Skills 4
- evidence-review
Audit a research report for unsupported claims, citation mismatches, outdated evidence, contradictions, and overstated causality.
- karpathy-guidelines
Apply Karpathy-inspired principles when research leads to code, documents, protocols, purchases, repairs, or decisions that require clear assumptions, minimal scope, and verifiable outcomes.
- research-handoff
Turn existing research into a bounded implementation specification, action plan, protocol, decision record, or continuation brief without silently implementing it.
- research-methodology
Investigate products, scientific literature, device failures, markets, or technology using a canon-driven six-step research pyramid (exploratory, descriptive, experimental). Use when comparing options, writing a specification or protocol, reviewing evidence, or diagnosing why something changed.
Things to ask
- “Compare products in this category against my constraints and show the evidence.”
- “Summarize the PubMed evidence on this question, with study design and sample size.”
- “What public filings explain this market move; stay within safe and lawful public sources.”
Disconnect or uninstall
- 1In ChatGPT
Disconnect an account in Settings → Apps or Plugins. To remove the plugin itself, open Research Methodology in the Plugin Directory and select Uninstall plugin. Uninstalling can disconnect every account connected through it, and plugins your workspace installs may not offer the option.
- 2In Codex
Run /plugins in the Codex CLI, select the plugin and uninstall it, or press Space to turn it off.
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