Add a Field Overlay
Wire in discipline-specific reporting standards — CONSORT, ARRIVE, APA 7 — so the agent uses the right nomenclature and structure for your field.
Field overlays are the analogue of stack templates — discipline-specific conventions that supplement the general writing docs.
1. Choose your overlay at install
npx @tansuasici/claude-research-kit init --field medicineThe kit ships four overlays:
| Overlay | Covers |
|---|---|
ai-ml | NeurIPS/ICML/ACL cues, reproducibility (seeds, compute), baselines & ablations, eval contamination |
life-sciences | ARRIVE/STROBE/PRISMA, IRB/IACUC ethics, RRIDs & replicates, figure integrity, GEO/SRA |
social-sciences | APA 7, preregistration & the replication crisis, construct validity, qualitative coding |
medicine | CONSORT/STROBE/STARD/SPIRIT, trial registration, effect measures (ARR, NNT, ITT), COI |
2. Point CLAUDE.md at it
The overlay lives at agent_docs/field/<discipline>.md. CLAUDE.md already instructs the agent to read the relevant field overlay before discipline-specific writing (Tier 3 of session boot). No extra wiring needed.
The prompt-router hook injects a calibration reminder when a prompt touches an inflection point (overclaim, statistics, causation) — the overlay tells the agent which standard applies in your field.
3. Reference standards apply automatically
Once loaded, the agent knows, e.g., that a clinical trial needs prospective registration and a registered primary outcome (CONSORT), or that an ML result needs significance over seeds, not a single run. /methods-review and /stats-check read the overlay too.
4. Don't see your field?
The general discipline — the cardinal rule, the Question → Evidence → Draft → Verify → Cite loop, calibrated language — applies regardless. If you build an overlay for a discipline the kit doesn't cover yet, open a PR; every overlay follows the same structure as the four shipped ones.
Respond to Reviewers
Draft a point-by-point response letter that quotes each comment, states the change and its location, and never claims a change that wasn't actually made.
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