/assess-question-quality

name: assess-question-quality
description: "Audit a research question for scope and FINER-style quality; return targeted repairs."

assess-question-quality

Purpose

Assess whether a research question is clear, focused, answerable, relevant, and appropriately scoped.

Input contract

required: [research_question, intended_use]
optional: [constraints, evidence_context, stakeholder_needs]
constraints: [each quality judgment requires a criterion and textual evidence]

Procedure

1. Evaluate clarity, focus, answerability, relevance, and scope fit. 2. Identify ambiguity, hidden assumptions, and unbounded terms. 3. Propose the smallest wording changes that resolve material defects. 4. Return a scored or categorical assessment with unresolved issues.

Output contract

produces: [quality_assessment, criterion_evidence, revision_candidates, unresolved_issues]
delta_fields: [findings, decisions, uncertainties, open_questions]

Quality gates

• Judgments cite exact question terms.
• Revision candidates preserve the intended decision or outcome.

Failure and counterexamples

Do not reward complexity as rigor or call a question answerable when its outcome cannot be observed.

Provenance map

• `resolved: assess-question-quality`