Research Skills

Auto-grow a pro-workflow wiki by running a budget-capped BFS research loop over pluggable source fetchers (web, arXiv, GitHub). Each iteration pops a seed from the queue, fetches sources, drafts a wiki page, dedupes claims against existing pages, enqueues follow-up seeds. Halts on budget cap, depth cap, or convergence. Use when the user says "research <topic>", "grow the <slug> wiki", "auto-research", or wants a knowledge base that builds itself overnight.

Render a self-contained HTML viewer for a pro-workflow wiki. Pages, sources, claims, seed queue, page-link graph and full-text search all in one file. No external dependencies, no JS framework, S3-uploadable. Use when the user wants to browse a wiki visually, share its current state with someone, audit research progress, or hand off a knowledge base. Inspired by Thariq Shihipar's "Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML" — favors information density and shareability over markdown-only outputs.

Transforms research findings into executive-ready briefings. Automatically activated when user mentions 'executive', 'briefing', 'C-suite', 'board', 'leadership', or 'presentation'.

Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Resolve bibliographic identifiers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, deduplicate references, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to verify citation information, convert DOIs/PMIDs/arXiv IDs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.

Design experiments and quasi-experiments before analysis. Use when choosing study design, treatment/control structure, outcomes, assumptions, validation plans after scientific experiment failure, or which of DiD, ITS, synthetic control, or regression discontinuity fits the research question. For fitting models or estimating effects on existing data, use performing-causal-analysis instead.

Query FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) API for 800,000+ economic time series from 100+ sources. Access GDP, unemployment, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, housing, and regional data. Use for macroeconomic analysis, financial research, policy studies, economic forecasting, and academic research requiring U.S. and international economic indicators.

Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). This skill should be used when conducting systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, research synthesis, or comprehensive literature searches across biomedical, scientific, and technical domains. Creates professionally formatted markdown documents and PDFs with verified citations in multiple citation styles (APA, Nature, Vancouver, etc.).

Generate comprehensive market research reports and industry/competitive analysis in the style of top consulting firms. Use for market sizing, competitive landscape, market entry, investment thesis, strategic recommendations, and consulting-style business reports. Do not use for scientific reports, paper writing, LaTeX submission/PDF builds, EDGAR/FRED/Treasury/Data Commons data retrieval, or biomedical literature evidence work.

Query and analyze scholarly literature using the OpenAlex database. This skill should be used when searching for academic papers, analyzing research trends, finding works by authors or institutions, tracking citations, discovering open access publications, or conducting bibliometric analysis across 240M+ scholarly works. Use for literature searches, research output analysis, citation analysis, and academic database queries.

Use when converting academic papers into dissemination assets such as Paper2Web websites, Paper2Video video abstracts, or Paper2Poster conference posters from LaTeX or PDF sources.

Implements Manus-style file-based planning for complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when starting complex multi-step tasks, research projects, or any task requiring >5 tool calls.

Perform AI-powered web searches with real-time information using Perplexity models via LiteLLM and OpenRouter. This skill should be used when conducting web searches for current information, finding recent scientific literature, getting grounded answers with source citations, or accessing information beyond the model knowledge cutoff. Provides access to multiple Perplexity models including Sonar Pro, Sonar Pro Search (advanced agentic search), and Sonar Reasoning Pro through a single OpenRouter API key.

Direct REST API access to PubMed. Advanced Boolean/MeSH queries, E-utilities API, batch processing, citation management. For Python workflows, prefer biopython (Bio.Entrez). Use this for direct HTTP/REST work or custom API implementations.

> Prowler documentation style guide and writing standards.

Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission requirements.

Systematically evaluate scholarly work using the ScholarEval framework, providing structured assessment across research quality dimensions including problem formulation, methodology, analysis, and writing with quantitative scoring and actionable feedback.

Open-ended scientific ideation partner. Use for research gaps, mechanism exploration, interdisciplinary connections, assumptions, possible research directions, and lightweight literature matrix or A+B paper-combination idea mapping. For structured testable hypotheses and validation plans, use hypothesis-generation instead.

Build slide decks and presentations for research talks. Use this for making PowerPoint slides, conference presentations, seminar talks, research presentations, thesis defense slides, or any scientific talk. Provides slide structure, design templates, timing guidance, and visual validation. Works with PowerPoint and LaTeX Beamer.

Generate concise (3-4 page), focused medical treatment plans in LaTeX/PDF format for all clinical specialties. Supports general medical treatment, rehabilitation therapy, mental health care, chronic disease management, perioperative care, and pain management. Includes SMART goal frameworks, evidence-based interventions with minimal text citations, regulatory compliance (HIPAA), and professional formatting. Prioritizes brevity and clinical actionability.

Access USPTO APIs for patent/trademark searches, examination history (PEDS), assignments, citations, office actions, TSDR, for IP analysis and prior art searches.

Deep web research for VCO: multi-hop search+browse+extract with an auditable action trace and a structured report (WebThinker-style).

Chinese-first academic Word and PowerPoint workflow for paper reading reports, thesis or group-meeting PPTs, editable DOCX/PPTX generation, Office file inspection, template matching, speaker notes, and layout quality checks. Use when the user asks to read papers into Word reports, create or polish PPT/PPTX, convert paper/thesis materials into slides, edit DOCX/PPTX, inspect Office files, or produce Chinese academic presentation/report deliverables. Preserve English paper titles, formulas, variable names, software commands, and references.

Chinese-first research paper writing, revision, polishing, section drafting, rebuttal, peer-review response, thesis prose improvement, and manuscript argument planning. Use when the user asks to write or revise论文正文, abstracts, introductions, methods, results, discussion, conclusions, related work, responses to reviewers, LaTeX/Overleaf text, or academic prose. Preserve formulas, English paper titles, terms, citations, and measured results.

Research computing toolkit for optoelectronic information science and engineering, MATLAB/Octave, Python scientific analysis, signal processing, image processing, statistics, simulation, optimization, publication figures, sensor/time-series data, citation lookup, and common scientific libraries. Use when the user asks for MATLAB code, scientific Python, data analysis, plots, simulations, formulas, statistics, machine learning, optical/physical/materials computation, or reproducible research workflows.

Quantum physics simulation library for open quantum systems. Use when studying master equations, Lindblad dynamics, decoherence, quantum optics, or cavity QED. Best for physics research, open system dynamics, and educational simulations. NOT for circuit-based quantum computing—use qiskit, cirq, or pennylane for quantum algorithms and hardware execution.

Use when the user asks to "analyze my target audience", "build an audience profile for influencer targeting", "research a niche community", or "deep-dive a subculture before partnering with creators"; in audience mode produces demographic/psychographic profiles, a platform-priority matrix, named personas, and an influencer-selection criteria set, and in niche mode produces a community map, culture decode (language/norms/taboos), key-voice tiers, a Brand Fit Score, and a phased entry strategy. Not for finding specific creators to contract — use influencer-discovery; not for scoring a shortlist on Suitability — use fit-scorer. 目标受众画像/人群分析 · 细分社群/亚文化调研

Use when the user asks to "optimize entity presence", reconcile an entity identity, or update canonical Knowledge Graph facts; audits and maintains machine-facing identity, sameAs, schema, disambiguation, and AI-recognition evidence through the entities registry. Not for page-level AI-citation readiness - use geo-content-optimizer; not for human-facing brand canon - use narrative-registry. 实体注册/知识图谱

Use when auditing domain authority, trust, or citation credibility; runs a peer-relative 40-item CITE profile with evidence coverage and verified manipulation/penalty veto checks. Not for page-level content quality — use content-quality-auditor; not for backlink profiling alone — use offsite-signal-analyzer. 域名权威/网站可信度

Use when the user asks to "optimize for AI citations"; improves citation readiness for ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude. Not for structural on-page SEO — use on-page-seo-checker; not for net-new drafting — use content-writer. AI引用优化/GEO优化/AI搜索

Use when the user asks to "build programmatic SEO pages", "generate pages at scale", "rank on a high-authority third-party site", "borrow domain authority", "build a vs / alternative page", "do local SEO", "optimize a Google Business Profile", or "fix NAP" — one page-build router with four modes: programmatic (template × dataset systems), parasite (barnacle publishing on Medium/Reddit/LinkedIn/GitHub), comparison (vs / alternative pages in four formats), and local (GBP + NAP + citations + location pages), each with its own thin/duplicate, honesty, or reputation-abuse guardrail. Not for finding what to target — use keyword-research or content-gap-analysis; not for drafting one standalone article — use content-writer; not for scoring a page for publish — use content-quality-auditor. 程序化SEO/批量页面/寄生SEO/借势权重/对比页/vs页/替代页/本地SEO/谷歌商家档案/NAP一致性

Use when the user asks to "analyze the SERP" or "SERP分析"; maps SERP features, layout, ranking factors, search intent, AI Overviews, and snippet opportunities for a query. Not for keyword demand discovery — use keyword-research. SERP分析/搜索结果

Use when auditing content quality, E-E-A-T, or publish readiness; runs a typed 80-item CORE-EEAT profile with evidence coverage, veto checks, and a fix plan. Not for structural tags/headers alone — use on-page-seo-checker; not for domain/citation trust — use domain-authority-auditor. 内容质量/EEAT评分

Generate OpenEnv environments from a concrete use case (for example, "generate an env for the library textarena"). Use when asked to design or implement a new environment under envs/ by researching a target library/API, selecting matching OpenEnv examples, asking key implementation questions, and building models/client/server/openenv.yaml. Do not use for model training or evaluation tasks.

Web search and research using Perplexity AI. Use when user says "search", "find", "look up", "ask", "research", or "what's the latest" for generic queries. NOT for library/framework docs (use Context7) or workspace questions.

A research-journal aesthetic printed on warm stone — authoritative, editorial, almost achromatic. Pages live on warm ivory parchment (never pure white), with near-black slate as the dominant ink.

Paper-textured, print-inspired design with minimal colors, clean serif/sans typography, and tactile surface qualities.

A playful, joyful, two-color risograph print aesthetic built on a single warm off-white paper surface running through every section

A friendly, hand-drawn sketch interface inspired by pencil illustrations on warm cream paper. Soft teal brand accents, hand-written display headings, rounded pill controls.

Discuss a domain with the user, research it from real sources, then generate a trusted skill bundle for it - a step-by-step workflow with a flowchart, a domain adapter, a trap fixture, and a smoke eval. Use when the user says "/fable-domain <sector>", "make a skill for <domain>", "add a domain to the fable method", or "give a lesser model Fable's workflow for <domain>". The bundle is the deliverable; a workflow without its flowchart, sources, and trap is not done.

Search papers across arXiv, DBLP, OpenAlex, OpenReview, Semantic Scholar, and Crossref for a given query and year range, using ./scripts/search_papers.py. Use when the user asks to find papers, related work, prior art, or recent publications on a specific topic, especially when they mention a date range or specific venues like NeurIPS, ICLR, or ICML.

Check whether a proposed research novelty (given a problem statement and claimed idea/novelty) overlaps with existing published work. TRIGGER when the user asks to verify research novelty, check if an idea is new, compare a proposed contribution to prior art, do a literature/prior-art search for a specific claim, or assess whether a paper idea has been scooped. DO NOT TRIGGER for general literature reviews unrelated to a specific novelty claim, or for writing related-work sections of an already-validated idea.

Extract a research paper PDF into a structured set of poster-agnostic assets reusable by any downstream renderer (paper2poster, paper2blog, paper2audio, paper2video). Produces a `<outdir>/` containing the paper's full text (assets/meta/text.txt), per-figure captions (assets/meta/captions.json), cleaned figure rasters (assets/figures/*.png + assets/meta/figures.json manifest), paper metadata (assets/meta/metadata.json: title / authors / institutes / venue / paper_url / code_url), institute logos (assets/logos/*), URL QR codes (assets/qr/*), and a 9-section structured paper summary (assets/meta/paper_spec.md). The bundle follows the Output Contract layout (deliverables at top, everything else under `assets/`). Use when the user wants to extract paper content into reusable assets, OR as the mandatory upstream stage of any paper-rendering pipeline — e.g., "extract this paper", "build paper assets", "get the figures and spec from this PDF", "paper2assets".

>- Generate ONE reviewer-defensible, implementable research idea with a concrete method and falsification plan from a stated research direction. Use when the user asks for a research idea, novelty analysis, bottleneck diagnosis, or paper-shape suggestion. Skip code review, debugging, and unconstrained brainstorming without research context.

Score the QUALITY of a research idea at the idea stage — given a Markdown file with Title / Motivation / Method sections (no experiments needed), produce a per-axis quality assessment with cited evidence and an overall 0–100 score plus a verdict; or, given two such idea files, a blind head-to-head comparison. TRIGGER when the user asks "how good is this idea", "rate / score / grade this research idea or proposal", "review my idea .md before I write it up", "is this contribution strong enough to pursue", "which of these two idea files is stronger", or hands over an idea Markdown file (Title/Motivation/Method) and wants a quality judgment. Use this even when the user does not say the word "score" but clearly wants an assessment of how strong an idea is. DO NOT trigger for prior-art / overlap / "is this novel vs existing work" checks (that is a literature-collision task), for full reviews of finished papers that already have results, or for generating the idea itself.

Render a pre-extracted paper's structured 9-section spec (`paper_spec.md`) into a single-page HTML academic poster, fit the layout to the page via an iterative measured-fill loop, and export it to print-ready PDF + PNG thumbnail. Requires the upstream `paper2assets` skill to have produced the input `<outdir>/` package (`manifest.json` at the root + an `assets/` folder holding `meta/paper_spec.md`, `meta/text.txt`, `meta/figures.json`, `meta/metadata.json`, `figures/*.png`, `logos/`, `qr/`) first. Use when the user wants an HTML poster, PDF/PNG export, or PPTX from a paper they already have extracted assets for — e.g., "render the poster", "make the poster from this spec", "export poster to PDF", "paper2poster". The three skills paper2assets → paper2poster → html2pptx run in sequence, each invokable on its own.

Use when transforming an academic paper, arXiv/OpenReview PDF, conference paper, technical report, poster, slide deck, repository README, or related research materials into a bilingual editorial package for an editing team. Produces two articles by default — a Chinese WeChat public-account version (`blog_zh.docx`) and an English research-blog version (`blog_en.docx`). Use for drafting, revising, or packaging article copy, figure placement, captions, image prompts, and the final `.docx` deliverables.

> Turn a research paper, a paper2assets package, or an existing PPT deck into a narrated MP4 video. Prefer the shared paper2assets package when present so paper2poster, paper2blog, paper2slides, and paper2video use the same section order and narration. Preserve the advanced deck route by delegating slide authoring to the external `hugohe3/ppt-master` project, then synthesize audio with `skills/paper2poster/scripts/generate_audio.py`, render with `skills/paper2video/scripts/render_video.py`, and burn final subtitles with `skills/paper2video/scripts/add_subtitles.py`.

Workshop coach for the Research Desk (SEC agents) workshop. Use when the user types /workshop, asks for a workshop act or module ("act 2", "next act", "where am I"), wants a TODO(workshop-N) implemented or explained, or asks for help following WORKSHOP.md.