Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/project-templates/research-study/deadlines/ project template / candidate # Research study โ€” deadlines The distinct deadlines record for Research study. This page is proposal-only. Status: **proposed**Lifecycle: **candidate** ## Record status **Record ID**: project:research-study **Parent lifecycle**: candidate **Page lane**: app_features **Lane lifecycle**: proposed **Owner**: Not separately recorded **Owner role**: Not separately recorded **Owner status**: Not separately recorded **Qualification result**: NOT RUN ยท held for evidence and human review **Working browser surface:** [Project templates & workflows โ€” overview]() โ€” Create a local project from this template and validate its forms. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held. ## Deadline and workback rules - A final decision date is required before the workback can be approved. - Every milestone must have one owner, one due date, and acceptance criteria. - Every dependency must have a needed-by date no later than the dependent milestone due date. - Internal review and evidence freeze must precede final closure. - Overdue blocking dependencies set affected milestones to Needs review or Held; they do not silently move deadlines. - A deadline change requires a recorded reason, revised workback, affected-owner acknowledgement, and approval when it changes the final decision date. - No recurrence is created unless a human explicitly marks recurrenceCandidate and approves the schedule. - A closure request is blocked when required evidence, citations, approvals, or unresolved contradiction decisions are missing. - Final deadline is required before a workback can be generated. - Milestones must not occur after the final deadline. - A task with a dependency cannot be scheduled before its dependency unless explicitly marked as an exception for review. - The workback must include collection, contradiction review, citation review, synthesis, and approval milestones. - Buffer days are shown separately and cannot silently reduce task durations. - Overdue incomplete tasks are marked overdue locally and remain visible in Today and the project view. - Changing the final deadline preserves the prior schedule revision and requires explicit workback regeneration. - Agenda conflicts are warnings; no external calendar write is performed. - Missing timezone labels produce a review warning rather than an assumed timezone. ## Workback sequence - Create the project record and assign a canonical project ID. - Enter the research question, scope boundaries, evidence rules, and contradiction rule. - Set the final deadline and generate a workback of collection, comparison, synthesis, citation review, and approval tasks. - Add source-labelled references and local file references; preserve source locators, SHA-256 values when supplied, provenance, and revisions. - Create evidence notes linked to individual source references, distinguishing observation, interpretation, and unresolved claim. - Record each material disagreement as a contradiction with affected claims, supporting source IDs, status, and required follow-up. - Use filters to view records by lifecycle, source type, claim status, contradiction status, owner, tag, due date, and approval state. - Review the PointGuard project room for current work, linked Notebook records, open loops, and held actions. - Draft a conclusion with citations and limitations; run completeness checks for unsupported claims and unresolved contradictions. - Submit the draft to local approval; preserve the decision and receipt without publishing or sending externally. - Close or hold the project while retaining revisions, provenance, deadlines, and unresolved items. ## Scheduling records - to-dos with due dates - milestone records - dependency records - agenda workback records ## Sources and evidence These pointers bind the page to evidence. They do not grant authority or collapse verification into deployment. - `source_record:project:research-study` - `project:research-study` - `NotebookCollectionKind.project` - `NotebookTodoPayload.dueAt` - `Notebook Agenda deadlines/workbacks` - `Observed native contract: records provenance and revision fields` - `Observed native contract: PointGuard cross-app context surface` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/projects/` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/to-dos/` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/agenda/` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/approvals/` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/field-guides/` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/agent-logs/` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/notes/` - `Observed app route: /app/notebook/files/` - `Observed app route: /app/pointguard/` - `Notebook records provenance and revisions` - `PointGuard persistent cross-app context surface` - `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/projects/` - `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/notes/` - `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/files/` - `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/to-dos/` - `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/agenda/` - `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/approvals/` - `APP_ROUTES:/app/notebook/search/` - `APP_ROUTES:/app/pointguard/`