Research AI Skills
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Research Grill
Interviews a researcher in rounds (idea, design, or defend stage) until no decision in a research idea, design, or draft is left assumed, recommending an answer to each question and writing settled…
Research Lookup
Look up current research information using Perplexity Sonar Pro Search or Sonar Reasoning Pro models through OpenRouter. Automatically selects the best model based on query complexity. Search academic…
Verify Results
Check whether reported paper metrics are consistent with outputs from the local code artifact. Use for result reproduction checks, artifact evaluation, reproducibility checklists, code-versus-paper…
Prospecting
When the user wants to find, qualify, and build a list of prospects to reach out to, across B2B SaaS, general B2B, or local small businesses. Also use when the user mentions "prospecting," "build a…
Powerpoint Slides
Create visually rich PowerPoint (.pptx) presentations from academic papers, research notes, or any content the user wants in slide format. Uses PptxGenJS + LaTeX formula rendering. Always use this…
Press Release Writing
Press release writing in AP style with inverted pyramid structure. Covers formatting, datelines, quotes, boilerplates, and fact-checking. Use for: product launches, funding announcements,…
Paper Lookup
Searches 18 scholarly APIs for papers, preprints, citations, open-access full text, repository records, and journal OA status, and returns results with reproducible provenance. Covers PubMed, PMC,…
Prototype
Concept prototype before GDDs — throwaway HTML, Engine or Paper build, PROCEED/PIVOT/KILL/NOT ASSESSED. After /brainstorm and /setup-engine.
Auto Review Loop
Autonomous multi-round research review loop. In Copilot CLI it defaults to the native complementary rubber-duck subagent with host-event model evidence; elsewhere it uses Codex, while explicit…
Ara Research Manager
Records research provenance as a post-task epilogue, scanning conversation history at the end of a coding or research session to extract decisions, experiments, dead ends, claims, heuristics, and…
Youtube Influencer Finder Api Skill
This skill helps users extract YouTube influencer profiles including social links, subscriber counts, and channel stats via the BrowserAct API. Agent should proactively apply this skill when users…
Hypothesis Generation
Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. Use when you have experimental observations or data and need to formulate testable hypotheses with predictions, propose mechanisms, and design…
Clinical Question Clarifier
Clarifies a vague clinical or biomedical research idea into a structured, bounded, searchable, researchable, and testable question. Always use this skill whenever a user has an early-stage clinical or…
Replication Package
Assemble a submission-ready replication package to the AEA Data and Code Availability Standard (DCAS) / openICPSR / Social Science Reproduction Platform expectations — standard replication README,…
Anti Reversing Techniques
Understand anti-reversing, obfuscation, and protection techniques encountered during software analysis. Use when analyzing protected binaries, bypassing anti-debugging for authorized analysis, or…
Paper Search Usage
This skill should be used when the user asks to "search for papers", "find research papers", "search arXiv", "search PubMed", "look up a DOI", "download a paper", "search IEEE", or "search Scopus".
Aris Research Refine Pipeline
Run an end-to-end workflow that chains `aris-research-refine` and `aris-experiment-plan`. Use when the user wants a one-shot pipeline from vague research direction to focused final proposal plus…
Fmri Preprocessing Pipeline Guide
Domain-validated guidance for fMRI preprocessing decisions: motion correction, slice timing, spatial normalization, smoothing, confound regression, and quality control
Csrf Hunter
CSRF specialist (H1 #57). Use for testing state-changing actions without proper token validation, SameSite cookie bypass, and CSRF in JSON/API endpoints.
Astropy Astronomy
Astronomical computations via Astropy. Use when: user asks about celestial coordinates, FITS files, or cosmological calculations. NOT for: telescope control or real-time observation planning.
Pyzotero
Interact with Zotero reference management libraries using the pyzotero Python client. Retrieve, create, update, and delete items, collections, tags, and attachments via the Zotero Web API v3. Use this…
01 Auto Arena
Automatically evaluate and compare multiple AI models or agents without pre-existing test data. Generates test queries from a task description, collects responses from all target endpoints,…
Yao Geo Page Audit
Diagnose a website page or small page set for GEO readiness with authoritative public evidence, systematic page analysis, code/content/schema fixes, and four-format Chinese report delivery.
Wentor API
Access Wentor platform academic services — paper Q&A search, structured paper search, and AI figure generation. Requires a Wentor API token.
Stopovers
Per-program stopover rules for award redemptions. Which programs allow free stopovers, how many, how long, and which don't. Covers Icelandair, Aeroplan, Alaska, Flying Blue, Singapore, Cathay, JAL,…
Researchers Historical
Researches archives, contemporary accounts, and timeline reconstruction. Use when the album subject involves historical events that need primary source verification.
Idea Brief
Lock an ideation run into a single-source-of-truth brainstorm brief (`output/trace/IDEA_BRIEF.md`) and a replayable multi-query plan (`queries.md`).
Digital Archive
Digital archiving with AI enrichment and entity extraction. Use when building content archives or knowledge graphs.
Model Scaffold
Use when you need a runnable PyTorch training repo for a medical-imaging task (segmentation, classification, detection, synthesis, self-supervised, or fine-tuning a pretrained backbone). Emits a…
Amj Literature Positioning
Use when the front end of an Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) manuscript needs to engage the right literatures and stake a clear position in an ongoing theoretical conversation. Positions the paper…
Database Lookup
Research and evaluate database lookup with current authoritative sources, provenance, and explicit evidence gaps. Use when the user asks for database lookup findings or verification.
Alterlab Biorxiv
Search the bioRxiv preprint server and retrieve paper metadata or download PDFs via its API. Use when finding life sciences preprints by keywords, authors, DOI, date ranges, or categories, or when…
Firecrawl Research Papers
Find and synthesize research papers, whitepapers, PDFs, technical reports, and academic sources with Firecrawl Research, using semantic paper search, related-paper expansion, and in-body verification…
Serpapi Tool
When the user wants to check live SERP results for a keyword, see what's in the local pack right now, check People Also Ask, see AI Overviews, verify SERP features, or do a quick spot-check of local…
World Class Carousel
Generate world-class Instagram carousel content on any topic. Produces 7-10 publication-ready slides (1080x1350) with AI-generated visuals, precise typography, Instagram music recommendations,…
Research Paper Writing
Academic paper writing workflow — literature review, LaTeX setup, structure, citations, and conference submissions.
Zenodo Skill
Use whenever the user mentions Zenodo, depositing or publishing research artifacts (datasets, software, papers, posters) to Zenodo, minting a DOI for a dataset/code release, uploading files to a…
Fluidsim
Framework for computational fluid dynamics simulations using Python. Use when running fluid dynamics simulations including Navier-Stokes equations (2D/3D), shallow water equations, stratified flows,…
Autoresearchclaw Autonomous Research
Fully autonomous research pipeline that turns a topic idea into a complete academic paper with real citations, experiments, and conference-ready LaTeX.
Research Repo
Scaffold or audit a research-project repository organized around its source library (PDFs, Markdown conversions, bibliography, intake pipeline) plus the analysis, manuscript, and review folders it…
Sec Edgar
Pull SEC EDGAR filings, XBRL financials, and Form 3/4/5 insider trades for accounting and finance research. Prefer the SEC EDGAR MCP for live lookups; use WRDS for panel Compustat/CRSP merges.…
Work With Overleaf
Bridges an Overleaf project to the local skills so a paper kept on Overleaf can be checked, polished, and reviewed, then synced back. Use when a researcher says "my paper is on Overleaf", "sync my…
Curve
Ordered centrelines of deformable linear objects — skeletonises a cable, rope or hose mask, recovers one traversal order through occlusion breaks and self-crossings (TrackDLO's chain merge),…
Phi Flow Mapping
Use this skill when a covered entity or business associate needs to know where protected health information lives and moves, or asks "map our PHI", "ePHI inventory", "HIPAA data flow diagram", "where…
Featured Snippet Optimizer
RETIRED v3.35 (2026-07-04) — merged into the wired citation-capsule-builder stage. Featured snippets fell 18%→8% of SERPs in 2025 (83% replaced by AI Overviews) and both select the same 40-60w…
Paperclip
Searches and reads biomedical papers, FDA/PMDA/EMA documents, clinical trials, and protein records with the GXL Paperclip CLI and Python SDK. Supports source-scoped search, full-text grep, metadata…
Competitor Analysis
Analyze competitors with strengths, weaknesses, and differentiation opportunities. Identifies direct competitors and maps the competitive landscape. Use when doing competitive research, preparing a…
Citation Audit
Zero-context verification that every bibliographic entry in the paper is real, correctly attributed, and used in a context the cited paper actually supports — catching hallucinated authors, wrong…
Ara Rigor Reviewer
Performs ARA Seal Level 2 semantic epistemic review on Agent-Native Research Artifacts, scoring six dimensions (evidence relevance, falsifiability, scope calibration, argument coherence, exploration…
Youtube Search Api Skill
This skill helps users automatically extract structured data from YouTube search results using the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like searching…
Backlog Capture
Quickly capture product ideas, feature requests, or insights from meetings and conversations. Rapid documentation with smart categorization and deduplication.

