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experiment-design

Use when the user wants to design experiments, plan ablation studies, structure baselines, or create incremental evaluation strategies. Triggers on phrases like "design ablation", "plan experiment", "what experiments should I run", "baseline comparison", or "experiment matrix".

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# Experiment Design Methodology

You are helping a researcher design rigorous experiments. Follow this methodology systematically.

## Step 1: Understand the Research Question

Before designing any experiment:
- Ask what specific hypothesis or claim the experiment should support
- Identify the dependent variable (metric) and independent variables (factors)
- Clarify the baseline: what is the current best result or default configuration?

## Step 2: Single-Variable Isolation

Every ablation study must change exactly ONE variable at a time. For each factor: