plan_study_questions
Plan a Multi-Question Block in a Study
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Creates or revises a non-executing draft for a multi-question plan inside an existing Study. Applicability: this is the setup operation for every questionnaire, survey, battery, section, cohesive question set, or request containing two or more known questions—even when the user did not say “study.” Include every question known now in this ONE draft, group related questions into cohesive named modules (question blocks or batteries), preserve their logical order, and execute them later as one confirmed run inside the Study. Never split a known set across one-question drafts or sequential runs. A one-question draft is valid only for genuinely standalone research; an adaptive follow-up whose wording depends on unavailable results can be planned later. The draft records intent, respondent-visible stimulus and questions, response formats, locale, method, outputs, confirmation questions, execution source policy, and revision metadata. Its source policy is part of the exact revision the user reviews; omitted means the controlled request_only default, while auto is an explicit experiment opt-in. It does not start research. When the user supplies a fixed or pre-registered instrument whose wording, order, and response formats must not change, pass it as questions (one entry per item with its exact response contract) instead of request; the planner is then bypassed and the draft is an exact transcription. Explicit response contracts remain authoritative during execution, including with attachments: categoricalOptions retain their labels and order rather than being replaced by inferred A/B file labels. Answer carryover: every questionnaire item is an independent measurement. A confirmed run carries no answer history — a Mind answering item 12 has not seen its own answers to items 1-11, and items fan out in parallel — and nothing on this run can change that (historyMode is settable only on a single standalone question, and defaults to none there too). So cross-item order, fatigue, and carryover effects do not arise, and rotation or least-fill designs that exist only to control them buy nothing here; conversely, any item that must build on an earlier one has to restate what it needs in its own text or stimulus, because a back-reference resolves to nothing. Scoping stimuli to questions: attachments belong to THIS draft (one question block), not to the Study. With a single attachment, every question receives it unless questionAttachments maps that question to an empty list, which means no assets. With two or more attachments, every question needs its own questionAttachments entry (use [] for no assets) and every attachment must be assigned to at least one question, or the run is refused before any Mind answers; passing questionAttachments also drops any planner-suggested assignment from the questions you omit. Map pre-exposure, screening, demographic, and behavioural-frequency items to [] so the stimulus does not prime them. A monadic design can instead use one draft per cell whose attachments hold only that stimulus, so every question in the block receives it with no mapping to typo. That is stimulus scoping, not the forbidden question-by-question drip: each draft still carries a complete block. On a revision, omitting attachments keeps the previous set; pass an empty array to clear it. MCP cannot read or upload a local file:// path. Use a fetchable HTTP(S) URL, a signed URL supplied by the client for the attached file, or an existing Minds workspace upload URL/path. Study tools import external file URLs into durable Minds storage before saving or running. A workspace upload reused as a Study asset must sit under chat/<userId>/: request the signed upload with folder "chat" and pass that storage path or its /api/uploads/chat/ URL. A temp/, portfolio/, or context/ path — and any /api/uploads/file-access/ URL — is refused as not belonging to the workspace owner and is never re-fetched; pass a plain external URL instead. The Study refuses to start if Minds cannot read the asset. Before asking for confirmation, show the returned draftPlanId and numeric revision, exact respondent-visible stimulus and questions, proposed response formats, and all confirmation questions or advanced-method opt-ins. State that research has not started. A request to skip review is not confirmation of a draft the user has not seen. Wait for explicit confirmation of this displayed revision before execution.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| edits | object | no | Save exact edits to draftPlanId and revision without a model call. Preserves method configuration, source policy, item IDs and exact wording. Questions are the complete selected instrument in module order; method-specific batteries are read-only. Cannot combine with planner inputs. |
| loadLatest | boolean | no | Read the latest saved revision of draftPlanId, without generating, saving or executing. Do not combine with edits or planner inputs. |
| studyId | string | no | Study ID (UUID). Omit with studyName to continue the active Study. |
| studyName | string | no | Study name for fuzzy matching. Omit with studyId to continue the active Study. |
| panelId | string | no | Study ID (UUID; legacy wire field name: panelId). Omit both panelId and panelName only to continue the active Study from this MCP session. |
| panelName | string | no | Study name for fuzzy matching (legacy wire field name: panelName). Omit both panelName and panelId only to continue the active Study from this MCP session. |
| request | string | no | Planner input containing the research objective, questionnaire, survey, battery, section, cohesive question set, audit request, or analysis request. Required for a new draft. Include EVERY question already known in this one request so the planner can group the complete set into cohesive named modules for one confirmed multi-question run inside the Study; never create one planning request per known question. This request is not sent verbatim to Minds; the exact proposed respondent-visible questions are returned in the draft for review. |
| studyLocale | string | no | Language for the plan, questions, responses, labels, and summary. Set this explicitly when the user requests a language. |
| sourcePolicy | string | no | Evidence policy stored in the draft and reviewed before execution. Defaults to request_only for a controlled Study. Use auto only for an explicitly designed experiment that should allow relevant Mind-knowledge retrieval; response-mode rules still control live web search. |
| mindSourcePolicyOverrides | array | no | Experimental per-Mind treatment assignments stored in the exact draft revision. Each Mind may appear once; unlisted Minds use sourcePolicy. Use only for a preregistered source-policy experiment. |
| source | object | no | The one main source this study is about. When Minds must evaluate pasted text, use kind prompt and put the exact respondent-visible material in content. Keep research objectives, requested questions, and planner-only instructions in request. MCP cannot read or upload a local file:// path. Use a fetchable HTTP(S) URL, a signed URL supplied by the client for the attached file, or an existing Minds workspace upload URL/path. Study tools import external file URLs into durable Minds storage before saving or running. A workspace upload reused as a Study asset must sit under chat/<userId>/: request the signed upload with folder "chat" and pass that storage path or its /api/uploads/chat/ URL. A temp/, portfolio/, or context/ path — and any /api/uploads/file-access/ URL — is refused as not belonging to the workspace owner and is never re-fetched; pass a plain external URL instead. The Study refuses to start if Minds cannot read the asset. |
| attachments | array | no | Files and websites available to the planned Study. With multiple assets, every question needs an explicit assignment and every asset must be used by at least one question. Use [] for no assets. Give each scoped file a stable id. Remote URLs are copied into durable Minds storage before the draft is saved. MCP cannot read or upload a local file:// path. Use a fetchable HTTP(S) URL, a signed URL supplied by the client for the attached file, or an existing Minds workspace upload URL/path. Study tools import external file URLs into durable Minds storage before saving or running. A workspace upload reused as a Study asset must sit under chat/<userId>/: request the signed upload with folder "chat" and pass that storage path or its /api/uploads/chat/ URL. A temp/, portfolio/, or context/ path — and any /api/uploads/file-access/ URL — is refused as not belonging to the workspace owner and is never re-fetched; pass a plain external URL instead. The Study refuses to start if Minds cannot read the asset. |
| questionAttachments | array | no | Question-to-file mapping. Multi-asset blocks require every question to be mapped, using [] for no assets; every asset must appear on at least one question. Each question at most once; every referenced attachment id must resolve. |
| suggestQuestionStimuli | boolean | no | Default true. Lets the planner assign each attached file or website to one or more questions (attachmentIds on those questions). Pass false to leave questions unassigned unless questionAttachments names them. |
| draftPlanId | string | no | Existing draft ID to revise after the user answers a confirmation question. |
| revision | integer | no | Current draft revision; required with draftPlanId. |
| refinement | string | no | How the user wants the existing draft changed. |
| answers | array | no | Answers to the draft confirmation questions. |
| questionResponses | array | no | Explicit response-format edits, one entry per question. Each entry needs questionId (from the latest draft) plus type qualitative, categorical, multiselect, or scale with an inclusive integer scaleRange. |
| questions | array | no | Fixed instrument: use INSTEAD of request when the user supplies a pre-registered or fixed questionnaire whose wording, order, and response formats must not change. The planner is bypassed; every question is stored verbatim, in this order, with exactly this response contract. Cannot be combined with refinement, answers, questionResponses, or suggestQuestionStimuli. Repeated question texts or colliding ids are rejected. |
| idempotencyKey | string | no | Optional stable retry key. When omitted the tool derives one from its own arguments, so a repeated identical call (including a host retry after a timeout) returns the draft revision that was already saved instead of planning again. Pass a fresh key to force a new plan for identical input. |
Raw JSON schema
{
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"type": "object",
"properties": {
"edits": {
"description": "Save exact edits to draftPlanId and revision without a model call. Preserves method configuration, source policy, item IDs and exact wording. Questions are the complete selected instrument in module order; method-specific batteries are read-only. Cannot combine with planner inputs.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"objective": {
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},
"promptContent": {
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},
"questions": {
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},
"text": {
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"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 2000
},
"response": {
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"properties": {
"type": {
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"enum": [
"qualitative",
"categorical",
"multiselect",
"scale"
]
},
"scaleRange": {
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"items": {
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}
},
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"items": {
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}
},
"maxSelections": {
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}
},
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"attachmentIds": {
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},
"required": [
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],
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}
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
},
"loadLatest": {
"description": "Read the latest saved revision of draftPlanId, without generating, saving or executing. Do not combine with edits or planner inputs.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"studyId": {
"description": "Study ID (UUID). Omit with studyName to continue the active Study.",
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid",
"pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$"
},
"studyName": {
"description": "Study name for fuzzy matching. Omit with studyId to continue the active Study.",
"type": "string"
},
"panelId": {
"description": "Study ID (UUID; legacy wire field name: panelId). Omit both panelId and panelName only to continue the active Study from this MCP session.",
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid",
"pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$"
},
"panelName": {
"description": "Study name for fuzzy matching (legacy wire field name: panelName). Omit both panelName and panelId only to continue the active Study from this MCP session.",
"type": "string"
},
"request": {
"description": "Planner input containing the research objective, questionnaire, survey, battery, section, cohesive question set, audit request, or analysis request. Required for a new draft. Include EVERY question already known in this one request so the planner can group the complete set into cohesive named modules for one confirmed multi-question run inside the Study; never create one planning request per known question. This request is not sent verbatim to Minds; the exact proposed respondent-visible questions are returned in the draft for review.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"studyLocale": {
"description": "Language for the plan, questions, responses, labels, and summary. Set this explicitly when the user requests a language.",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"en",
"es",
"fr",
"de",
"zh",
"tr",
"ar",
"ja",
"ko"
]
},
"sourcePolicy": {
"description": "Evidence policy stored in the draft and reviewed before execution. Defaults to request_only for a controlled Study. Use auto only for an explicitly designed experiment that should allow relevant Mind-knowledge retrieval; response-mode rules still control live web search.",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"request_only",
"auto"
]
},
"mindSourcePolicyOverrides": {
"description": "Experimental per-Mind treatment assignments stored in the exact draft revision. Each Mind may appear once; unlisted Minds use sourcePolicy. Use only for a preregistered source-policy experiment.",
"maxItems": 2000,
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"mindId": {
"description": "Exact Mind UUID in the Study cohort.",
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid",
"pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$"
},
"sourcePolicy": {
"description": "Request-scoped evidence treatment for this Mind.",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"request_only",
"auto"
]
}
},
"required": [
"mindId",
"sourcePolicy"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}
},
"source": {
"description": "The one main source this study is about. When Minds must evaluate pasted text, use kind prompt and put the exact respondent-visible material in content. Keep research objectives, requested questions, and planner-only instructions in request. MCP cannot read or upload a local file:// path. Use a fetchable HTTP(S) URL, a signed URL supplied by the client for the attached file, or an existing Minds workspace upload URL/path. Study tools import external file URLs into durable Minds storage before saving or running. A workspace upload reused as a Study asset must sit under chat/<userId>/: request the signed upload with folder \"chat\" and pass that storage path or its /api/uploads/chat/ URL. A temp/, portfolio/, or context/ path — and any /api/uploads/file-access/ URL — is refused as not belonging to the workspace owner and is never re-fetched; pass a plain external URL instead. The Study refuses to start if Minds cannot read the asset.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"kind": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"prompt",
"website",
"image",
"video",
"document",
"questionnaire",
"other"
]
},
"label": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"url": {
"description": "Fetchable source URL. MCP cannot read or upload a local file:// path. Use a fetchable HTTP(S) URL, a signed URL supplied by the client for the attached file, or an existing Minds workspace upload URL/path. Study tools import external file URLs into durable Minds storage before saving or running. A workspace upload reused as a Study asset must sit under chat/<userId>/: request the signed upload with folder \"chat\" and pass that storage path or its /api/uploads/chat/ URL. A temp/, portfolio/, or context/ path — and any /api/uploads/file-access/ URL — is refused as not belonging to the workspace owner and is never re-fetched; pass a plain external URL instead. The Study refuses to start if Minds cannot read the asset.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"mimeType": {
"type": "string"
},
"content": {
"description": "Exact respondent-visible pasted text. Use only with kind prompt when Minds must evaluate a concept, message, description, or other text. Do not include planner-only instructions.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 20000
}
},
"required": [
"kind",
"label"
]
},
"attachments": {
"description": "Files and websites available to the planned Study. With multiple assets, every question needs an explicit assignment and every asset must be used by at least one question. Use [] for no assets. Give each scoped file a stable id. Remote URLs are copied into durable Minds storage before the draft is saved. MCP cannot read or upload a local file:// path. Use a fetchable HTTP(S) URL, a signed URL supplied by the client for the attached file, or an existing Minds workspace upload URL/path. Study tools import external file URLs into durable Minds storage before saving or running. A workspace upload reused as a Study asset must sit under chat/<userId>/: request the signed upload with folder \"chat\" and pass that storage path or its /api/uploads/chat/ URL. A temp/, portfolio/, or context/ path — and any /api/uploads/file-access/ URL — is refused as not belonging to the workspace owner and is never re-fetched; pass a plain external URL instead. The Study refuses to start if Minds cannot read the asset.",
"maxItems": 20,
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"description": "Stable asset ID used by questionAttachments to assign this file to specific planned questions.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 255
},
"url": {
"description": "Fetchable HTTP(S), signed, or Minds workspace upload URL. MCP cannot read or upload a local file:// path. Use a fetchable HTTP(S) URL, a signed URL supplied by the client for the attached file, or an existing Minds workspace upload URL/path. Study tools import external file URLs into durable Minds storage before saving or running. A workspace upload reused as a Study asset must sit under chat/<userId>/: request the signed upload with folder \"chat\" and pass that storage path or its /api/uploads/chat/ URL. A temp/, portfolio/, or context/ path — and any /api/uploads/file-access/ URL — is refused as not belonging to the workspace owner and is never re-fetched; pass a plain external URL instead. The Study refuses to start if Minds cannot read the asset.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"path": {
"description": "Storage path of a file already uploaded to Minds. MCP cannot read or upload a local file:// path. Use a fetchable HTTP(S) URL, a signed URL supplied by the client for the attached file, or an existing Minds workspace upload URL/path. Study tools import external file URLs into durable Minds storage before saving or running. A workspace upload reused as a Study asset must sit under chat/<userId>/: request the signed upload with folder \"chat\" and pass that storage path or its /api/uploads/chat/ URL. A temp/, portfolio/, or context/ path — and any /api/uploads/file-access/ URL — is refused as not belonging to the workspace owner and is never re-fetched; pass a plain external URL instead. The Study refuses to start if Minds cannot read the asset.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"name": {
"description": "File name visible in the Study.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"type": {
"description": "MIME type when known.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"mimeType": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255
},
"kind": {
"description": "Use website for a page to read as a website rather than download as a file.",
"type": "string",
"const": "website"
}
}
}
},
"questionAttachments": {
"description": "Question-to-file mapping. Multi-asset blocks require every question to be mapped, using [] for no assets; every asset must appear on at least one question. Each question at most once; every referenced attachment id must resolve.",
"minItems": 1,
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"questionNumber": {
"description": "One-based question position in the returned plan, across modules in order.",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 9007199254740991
},
"attachmentIds": {
"description": "Stable ids from attachments that this question alone receives.",
"maxItems": 20,
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 255
}
}
},
"required": [
"questionNumber",
"attachmentIds"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}
},
"suggestQuestionStimuli": {
"description": "Default true. Lets the planner assign each attached file or website to one or more questions (attachmentIds on those questions). Pass false to leave questions unassigned unless questionAttachments names them.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"draftPlanId": {
"description": "Existing draft ID to revise after the user answers a confirmation question.",
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid",
"pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$"
},
"revision": {
"description": "Current draft revision; required with draftPlanId.",
"type": "integer",
"exclusiveMinimum": 0,
"maximum": 9007199254740991
},
"refinement": {
"description": "How the user wants the existing draft changed.",
"type": "string"
},
"answers": {
"description": "Answers to the draft confirmation questions.",
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"questionId": {
"description": "Confirmation question ID from the latest draft.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"answer": {
"description": "The user's answer to that confirmation question.",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"questionId",
"answer"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}
},
"questionResponses": {
"description": "Explicit response-format edits, one entry per question. Each entry needs questionId (from the latest draft) plus type qualitative, categorical, multiselect, or scale with an inclusive integer scaleRange.",
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"questionId": {
"description": "Question ID from the latest draft plan.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 80
},
"type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"qualitative",
"categorical",
"multiselect",
"scale"
]
},
"scaleRange": {
"description": "Inclusive integer response range as [minimum, maximum]; required for scale responses.",
"minItems": 2,
"maxItems": 2,
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": -100,
"maximum": 100
}
},
"categoricalOptions": {
"description": "Predefined answer choices; only valid for categorical or multiselect responses.",
"minItems": 2,
"maxItems": 100,
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
}
},
"maxSelections": {
"description": "Maximum choices a respondent may select; only valid for multiselect responses.",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 100
}
},
"required": [
"questionId",
"type"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}
},
"questions": {
"description": "Fixed instrument: use INSTEAD of request when the user supplies a pre-registered or fixed questionnaire whose wording, order, and response formats must not change. The planner is bypassed; every question is stored verbatim, in this order, with exactly this response contract. Cannot be combined with refinement, answers, questionResponses, or suggestQuestionStimuli. Repeated question texts or colliding ids are rejected.",
"minItems": 1,
"maxItems": 200,
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"description": "Stable item id (lower-cased to a slug). Defaults to q<position>.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 80
},
"text": {
"description": "Exact respondent-visible question text, including any anchors or labels. Stored as given.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 2000
},
"module": {
"description": "Optional module (battery) label. Consecutive questions with the same label form one module.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 200
},
"response": {
"description": "Exact execution contract for this item: type qualitative, categorical (with categoricalOptions), multiselect, or scale (with inclusive integer scaleRange). Supplied categoricalOptions keep their exact labels and order even with attachments; files are evidence and do not generate replacement A/B options.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"qualitative",
"categorical",
"multiselect",
"scale"
]
},
"scaleRange": {
"description": "Inclusive integer response range as [minimum, maximum]; required for scale responses.",
"minItems": 2,
"maxItems": 2,
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": -100,
"maximum": 100
}
},
"categoricalOptions": {
"description": "Predefined answer choices; only valid for categorical or multiselect responses.",
"minItems": 2,
"maxItems": 100,
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
}
},
"maxSelections": {
"description": "Maximum choices a respondent may select; only valid for multiselect responses.",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 100
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}
},
"required": [
"text",
"response"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}
},
"idempotencyKey": {
"description": "Optional stable retry key. When omitted the tool derives one from its own arguments, so a repeated identical call (including a host retry after a timeout) returns the draft revision that was already saved instead of planning again. Pass a fresh key to force a new plan for identical input.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 200
}
}
}