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scientific-writing/
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name: scientific-writing
description: Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. Write scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process with (1) section outlines with key points using research-lookup then (2) convert to flowing prose. IMRAD structure, citations (APA/AMA/Vancouver), figures/tables, reporting guidelines (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA), for research papers and journal submissions.
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scientific-writing

brycewang-stanford

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citation-management/
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name: citation-management
description: Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.
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citation-management

brycewang-stanford

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hypothesis-generation/
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name: hypothesis-generation
description: Generate testable hypotheses. Formulate from observations, design experiments, explore competing explanations, develop predictions, propose mechanisms, for scientific inquiry across domains.
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hypothesis-generation

brycewang-stanford

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literature-review/
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name: literature-review
description: 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.).
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literature-review

brycewang-stanford

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peer-review/
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name: peer-review
description: Systematic peer review toolkit. Evaluate methodology, statistics, design, reproducibility, ethics, figure integrity, reporting standards, for manuscript and grant review across disciplines.
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peer-review

brycewang-stanford

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

brycewang-stanford

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scholar-evaluation/
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name: scholar-evaluation
description: Apply the ScholarEval framework to systematically evaluate scholarly work across quality dimensions (novelty, rigor, significance, and clarity). Use to critique academic papers, research proposals, literature reviews, or grant applications and produce a structured, criterion-based assessment.
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scholar-evaluation

brycewang-stanford

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scientific-critical-thinking/
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name: scientific-critical-thinking
description: Evaluate research rigor. Assess methodology, experimental design, statistical validity, biases, confounding, evidence quality (GRADE, Cochrane ROB), for critical analysis of scientific claims.
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scientific-critical-thinking

brycewang-stanford

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scientific-writing/
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name: scientific-writing
description: Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. Write scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process: (1) create section outlines with key points using research-lookup, (2) convert to flowing prose. IMRAD structure, citations (APA/AMA/Vancouver), figures/tables, reporting guidelines (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA), for research papers and journal submissions.
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scientific-writing

brycewang-stanford

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Getting Started with Research Superpowers/
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name: Getting Started with Research Superpowers
description: Introduction to literature search & review skills - systematic paper finding, screening, extraction, and citation traversal
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Answering Research Questions/
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name: Answering Research Questions
description: Main orchestration workflow for systematic literature research - search, evaluate, traverse, synthesize
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Answering Research Questions

brycewang-stanford

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Building Paper Screening Rubrics/
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name: Building Paper Screening Rubrics
description: Collaboratively build and refine paper screening rubrics through brainstorming, test-driven development, and iterative feedback
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Building Paper Screening Rubrics

brycewang-stanford

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Checking ChEMBL for Structured SAR Data/
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name: Checking ChEMBL for Structured SAR Data
description: Check if medicinal chemistry papers are in ChEMBL database to access curated bioactivity data
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Cleaning Up Research Sessions/
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name: Cleaning Up Research Sessions
description: Safely remove intermediate files from completed research sessions while preserving important data
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Cleaning Up Research Sessions

brycewang-stanford

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Evaluating Paper Relevance/
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name: Evaluating Paper Relevance
description: Two-stage paper screening - abstract scoring then deep dive for specific data extraction
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Evaluating Paper Relevance

brycewang-stanford

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Finding Open Access Papers/
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name: Finding Open Access Papers
description: Use Unpaywall API to find free full-text versions of paywalled papers
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Finding Open Access Papers

brycewang-stanford

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Searching Scientific Literature/
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name: Searching Scientific Literature
description: PubMed search with keyword optimization, result parsing, and metadata extraction
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Searching Scientific Literature

brycewang-stanford

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Subagent-Driven Literature Review/
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name: Subagent-Driven Literature Review
description: Use parallel subagents for large-scale paper screening and deep dive analysis
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Subagent-Driven Literature Review

brycewang-stanford

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Traversing Citation Networks/
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name: Traversing Citation Networks
description: Smart backward and forward citation following via Semantic Scholar, with relevance filtering and deduplication
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Traversing Citation Networks

brycewang-stanford

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stat-writing/
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name: stat-writing
description: End-to-end statistical writing assistant for LaTeX - draft title/abstract/keywords, expand outlines into sections, audit manuscripts, write reviewer reports and response letters, and scaffold book manuscripts.
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stat-writing

brycewang-stanford

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academic-plotting/
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name: academic-plotting
description: Generates publication-quality figures for ML papers from research context. Given a paper section or description, extracts system components and relationships to generate architecture diagrams via Gemini. Given experiment results or data, auto-selects chart type and generates data-driven figures via matplotlib/seaborn. Use when creating any figure for a conference paper.
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academic-plotting

brycewang-stanford

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autoresearch/
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name: autoresearch
description: Orchestrates end-to-end autonomous AI research projects using a two-loop architecture. The inner loop runs rapid experiment iterations with clear optimization targets. The outer loop synthesizes results, identifies patterns, and steers research direction. Routes to domain-specific skills for execution, supports continuous agent operation via Claude Code /loop and OpenClaw heartbeat, and produces research presentations and papers. Use when starting a research project, running autonomous experiments, or managing a multi-hypothesis research effort.
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autoresearch

brycewang-stanford

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ml-paper-writing/
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name: ml-paper-writing
description: Write publication-ready ML/AI/Systems papers for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, COLM, OSDI, NSDI, ASPLOS, SOSP. Use when drafting papers from research repos, structuring arguments, verifying citations, or preparing camera-ready submissions. Includes LaTeX templates, reviewer guidelines, and citation verification workflows.
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ml-paper-writing

brycewang-stanford

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latex-document/
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name: latex-document
description: Universal LaTeX document skill: create, compile, and convert any document to professional PDF with PNG previews. Supports resumes, reports, cover letters, invoices, academic papers, theses/dissertations, academic CVs, presentations (Beamer), scientific posters, formal letters, exams/quizzes, books, cheat sheets, reference cards, exam formula sheets, fillable PDF forms (hyperref form fields), conditional content (etoolbox toggles), mail merge from CSV/JSON (Jinja2 templates), version diffing (latexdiff), charts (pgfplots + matplotlib), tables (booktabs + CSV import), images (TikZ), Mermaid diagrams, AI-generated images, watermarks, landscape pages, bibliography/citations (BibTeX/biblatex), multi-language/CJK (auto XeLaTeX), algorithms/pseudocode, colored boxes (tcolorbox), SI units (siunitx), Pandoc format conversion (Markdown/DOCX/HTML ↔ LaTeX), and PDF-to-LaTeX conversion of handwritten or printed documents (math, business, legal, general). Compile script supports pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex with auto-detection, latexmk backend, texfot log filtering, PDF/A output, and verbosity control (--verbose/--quiet). Empirically optimized scaling: single agent 1-10 pages, split 11-20, batch-7 pipeline 21+. Use when user asks to: (1) create a resume/CV/cover letter, (2) write a LaTeX document, (3) create PDF with tables/charts/images, (4) compile a .tex file, (5) make a report/invoice/presentation, (6) anything involving LaTeX or pdflatex, (7) convert/OCR a PDF to LaTeX, (8) convert handwritten notes, (9) create charts/graphs/diagrams, (10) create slides, (11) write a thesis or dissertation, (12) create an academic CV, (13) create a poster, (14) create an exam/quiz, (15) create a book, (16) convert between document formats (Markdown, DOCX, HTML to/from LaTeX), (17) generate Mermaid diagrams for LaTeX, (18) create a formal business letter, (19) create a cheat sheet or reference card, (20) create an exam formula sheet or crib sheet, (21) condense lecture notes/PDFs into a cheat sheet, (22) create a fillable PDF form with text fields/checkboxes/dropdowns, (23) create a document with conditional content/toggles (show/hide sections), (24) generate batch/mail-merge documents from CSV/JSON data, (25) create a version diff PDF (latexdiff) highlighting changes between documents, (26) create a homework or assignment submission with problems and solutions, (27) create a lab report with data tables, graphs, and error analysis, (28) encrypt or password-protect a PDF, (29) merge multiple PDFs into one, (30) optimize/compress a PDF for web or email, (31) lint or check a LaTeX document for common issues, (32) count words in a LaTeX document, (33) analyze document statistics (figures, tables, citations), (34) fetch BibTeX from a DOI, (35) convert a Graphviz .dot file to PDF/PNG, (36) convert a PlantUML .puml file to PDF/PNG, (37) create a one-pager/fact sheet/executive summary, (38) create a datasheet or product specification sheet, (39) extract pages from a PDF (page ranges, odd/even), (40) check LaTeX package availability before compiling, (41) analyze citations and cross-reference with .bib files, (42) debug LaTeX compilation errors, (43) make a document accessible (PDF/A, tagged PDF), (44) create lecture notes or course handouts, (45) fill an existing PDF form (fillable fields or non-fillable with annotations), (46) extract text or tables from a PDF (pdfplumber, pypdf), (47) OCR a scanned PDF to text (pytesseract), (48) create a PDF programmatically with reportlab (Canvas, Platypus), (49) rotate or crop PDF pages (pypdf), (50) add a watermark to an existing PDF, (51) extract metadata from a PDF (title, author, subject).
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latex-document

brycewang-stanford