startsession
Initialize and organize your quantitative research session by retrieving active projects, available datasets, research questions, statistical models, and high-priority tasks for focused analysis.
Instructions
A comprehensive tool for initializing a new quantitative research session, providing structured information about ongoing research projects, datasets, statistical models, and recent research activities.
When to use this tool:
- Beginning a new quantitative analysis session
- Getting oriented to your current research state across multiple projects
- Planning which research elements to focus on in the current session
- Reviewing recent research activities and progress
- Identifying active research projects and their status
- Exploring available datasets for analysis
- Reviewing current research questions
- Examining statistical models and their performance
- Viewing recent visualizations of your data
- Establishing research context before diving into specific analysis tasks
- Re-engaging with your research after time away
- Prioritizing high-priority research tasks
- Tracking the status of various research activities
- Understanding sequential research processes
Key features:
- Generates a unique session identifier for tracking research activities
- Retrieves and displays recent research sessions with summaries
- Lists active research projects with status information
- Provides a sample of available datasets with key information
- Presents current research questions guiding your studies
- Highlights recent statistical models with performance metrics
- Displays recent visualizations with brief descriptions
- Formats information in an easily scannable format for quick orientation
- Integrates with the loadcontext tool for deeper exploration
- Maintains continuity between research sessions
- Tracks research session history for progress review
- Displays high-priority research tasks needing attention
- Shows status information for key research activities
- Presents sequential relationships between research processes
Parameters explained: No parameters required - the tool automatically retrieves all relevant context.
Return information:
- Recent research sessions (up to 3) with:
- Date
- Project name
- Brief summary
- Active research projects with:
- Project name
- Current status (via has_status relation)
- Priority (if assigned via has_priority relation)
- Available datasets (up to 5) with:
- Dataset name
- Type of data
- Associated project
- Status (active, completed, pending, abandoned)
- Research questions (up to 5) with:
- Question text
- Associated project
- Status (via has_status relation)
- Recent statistical models with:
- Model name
- Model type
- Performance metrics
- Status (via has_status relation)
- Recent visualizations with:
- Visualization name
- Type (chart, plot, etc.)
- Associated dataset
- High-priority research tasks (up to 5) with:
- Task name
- Current status (active, completed, pending, abandoned)
- Associated project
- Upcoming research activities (up to 3) with:
- Activity name
- Prerequisite activities (via precedes relation)
- Current status (via has_status relation)
Status and Priority Information:
- Research activities are displayed with their current status values
- High-priority tasks are prominently highlighted for attention
- Valid status values include: active, completed, pending, abandoned
- Priority values (high, low) help indicate which tasks need immediate attention
- Status is retrieved through has_status relations
- Priority is retrieved through has_priority relations
Sequential Process Information:
- Upcoming activities show prerequisite tasks that must be completed first
- Research phases are presented in their logical sequence
- The precedes relation is used to determine activity ordering
- Sequential relationships help visualize the research workflow
Session Workflow:
- Start a research session with startsession
- Review the provided context to decide what to focus on
- Use loadcontext to retrieve detailed information about specific research elements
- Conduct your analysis, adding new elements with buildcontext as needed
- End the session with endsession to record your research progress
You should:
- Begin each focused research period with startsession to establish context
- Review recent sessions to maintain continuity in your research
- Identify active projects that require attention
- Note available datasets for potential analysis
- Consider current research questions that need investigation
- Review existing statistical models before creating new ones
- Examine recent visualizations to understand data representation
- Prioritize high-priority tasks for immediate attention
- Check the status of research activities to maintain progress awareness
- Consider sequential relationships when planning your research activities
- Use the session ID when using other tools to maintain session tracking
- After completing a session, record your progress using endsession
- Establish a regular cadence of research sessions to maintain momentum
- Use the structured overview to make deliberate choices about where to focus your analytical effort
Input Schema
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