csml-rpi/ai-cfd-scientist/cfd-research

cfd-research (alias)

This skill is a thin alias for cfd-skills/cfd-pipeline/SKILL.md. The full self-contained, ARIS/DS-style end-to-end recipe (literature, hypothesis, requirements, mesh-gate, experiments, interpret, analyze, paper) — including all expert prompts embedded verbatim — is documented there.

Why an alias?

• Historically, skills/ housed the router + research/code-mod/mesh-independence skills. cfd-skills/ was added later as the per-stage recipe layer.
• After the Nov 2026 ARIS/DS-style refactor, the full recipes live under cfd-skills/. This file remains so existing routing in CLAUDE.md and external agent configurations keep working.

Use this skill if you came here via:

• The CLAUDE.md "study/sensitivity/turbulence/backward step/channel/experiment/run" routing line.
• An external agent config that was set up before the refactor.

Do this

1. Open cfd-skills/cfd-pipeline/SKILL.md and follow the general path chain (Steps 1–13).
2. For each sub-stage, follow the corresponding cfd-skills/cfd-<stage>/SKILL.md (each is fully self-contained with its expert prompts embedded).

Behavioral contracts preserved here

• Mandatory mesh-independence gate before any experiment sweep — see cfd-skills/cfd-mesh-gate/SKILL.md.
• Foam-Agent runtime for case execution — see skills/cfd-foamagent-runtime/SKILL.md (still the canonical Foam-Agent execution contract).
• CFL-aware retry policy for slow/failing runs — see cfd-skills/cfd-experiment/SKILL.md.
• Long-run policy (multi-hour OK; no premature timeout) — applies everywhere.
• Expert prompts from `prompts/prompts.yaml` are embedded verbatim in every relevant cfd-skills/cfd-<stage>/SKILL.md. The YAML remains the authoritative source.

Migration note

If you have agent code that previously invoked /cfd-research, replace it with /cfd-pipeline for new work; both work identically today, but new development happens under cfd-skills/.