Write each line of inquiry down once: the question, the claims, and what would change your mind, before the results. In a Git repository, each frame and investigation keeps its history, so the method outlives the student who knew it.
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Sound familiar?
And that someone defends in May.
The protocol is whatever the last postdoc did. It’s written down nowhere, and you learn it by standing next to them.
Two copies of the method, the same file name, different thresholds, and nobody sure which one the first sample used.
Seven participants excluded, a recall time moved, a measure swapped. By the time the paper is written, the reasons are a guess.
How it fits
Install the research framework and the programme gets four frames that every investigation is judged against, and one file per investigation, grouped by strand. An investigation says what’s asked and what would settle it. It isn’t a lab notebook, a protocol, or a task list.
What you will use most
In a Git repository, every frame and investigation shows who changed it, when, and a diff against today. The method a sample used is a commit, not a guess.
The check lists every investigation missing a section its template asks for, such as the falsifier, or a property such as its strand. It runs on a laptop and in CI.
Scoring nights, freezing a notebook, uploading tables: each task points at the investigation it serves, so the investigation never fills up with to-dos.
Consent forms, ethics approvals, and figures linked to the investigations they belong to. Raw data stays where it lives now.
Claude Code or Codex beside the page, with the open investigation as context. A new student can ask how the lab scores a night and point it at the Method frame.
History
In a Git repository, every frame shows who changed the standard of evidence, on which day, and the exact words, with a diff beside the page. Nobody has to keep method_final2.md.
For the computational side
The desktop app is optional. The CLI reads the same project, so the check runs in CI beside your analysis code.
$ curl -fsSL https://eidosmd.com/install | sh
$ eidos install @BuildableWorks/research
$ eidos check
✓ no findingsStart here
Frames for question, prior work, method, and ethics, and investigations grouped by strand. It has no collection for protocols: add one under Framework settings with the sections your protocols share, and each is checked like any other page.
A question, a study, or a programme
Frames for question, prior work, method, and ethics, and investigations grouped by strand.
$ eidos install @BuildableWorks/researchIn the app: New Project, then pick it from the list.
Download Eidos MD, install the research framework, and write your programme’s question and standard of evidence. It’s free, and the files stay in your lab’s repository.
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