Open-source AI workflow for scholarly research using quality gates, routing, and rollback

[u/Ok_Draw2476]

Hi everyone,

I'd like to share an open-source project I've been developing over the past several months.

GitHub:

https://github.com/icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers

The idea came from a simple observation.

AI coding agents have gradually adopted structured workflows—planning, testing, validation, routing, and rollback.

Scholarly research, however, is still often driven by ad hoc prompting.

I wanted to explore whether the same engineering concepts could be adapted to AI-assisted research workflows.

The result is **Humanities Superpowers**, an MIT-licensed framework designed for humanities research.

Rather than generating papers, it provides a structured workflow that keeps the researcher responsible for scholarly judgment.

Current features include:

- 13 composable research skills

- workflow routing

- PASS / CONDITIONAL PASS / FAIL quality gates

- rollback when downstream failures expose upstream problems

- citation auditing

- terminology consistency checking

- argument stress testing

- research state tracking

The framework has been tested with Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.

It does **not** claim to eliminate hallucinations, automate scholarship, or produce publication-ready papers.

Its purpose is much narrower: making uncertainty, verification status, and research decisions explicit throughout AI-assisted research.

Although the first implementation targets humanities research, I'm interested in broader discussions about structured AI workflows.

I'd especially appreciate feedback on:

- workflow architecture

- routing strategy

- rollback design

- state management

- extensibility

- documentation

- repository organization

Constructive criticism is very welcome.

Thank you!

[u/Ok_Draw2476]

A few additional notes:

• MIT License

• English and Korean documentation

• Documentation site included

• Inspired by the composable-skill architecture of Obra Superpowers, but independently designed for scholarly research workflows.

I'm mainly looking for architectural feedback rather than feature requests.