Research
Research tools and academic skills
3205 skills in this category
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full-video-workflow-skill
Complete pre-production workflow that chains research, project creation, script generation, and presentation in one seamless flow. Use when starting a new video from competitor research all the way through to a ready-to-record script.
context7
Use Context7 MCP to access up-to-date library documentation when working with project dependencies. Always consult Context7 for accurate API references, patterns, and examples when doing in-depth work with libraries.
design-intent-specialist
Creates accurate frontend implementations from visual references while maintaining design consistency. Use when user provides Figma URLs, screenshots, design images, or requests UI implementation from visual references. Automatically checks existing design intent patterns before implementation.
systematic-debugging
Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes - four-phase framework (root cause investigation, pattern analysis, hypothesis testing, implementation) that ensures understanding before attempting solutions
research-after-failure
Use after 2 consecutive failed attempts at solving a problem - STOP guessing and research documentation, codebase, and online resources before resuming
best-practice-core
[Dev] Extracts and organizes best practices for a given topic into a minimal tree structure (max depth 3, max 5 children per node). Use during task planning when writing subtasks in Docs/{name}_Task.md - output is added under each subtask as a concise reference guide. Pure reasoning task with strict formatting rules: keywords/noun phrases only, no prose. (project)
shownotes-generator
Generate comprehensive "Shownotes" summaries from longform articles, papers, transcripts, videos, or audio content. Use when users request shownotes, episode summaries, content summaries with takeaways, or when they reference the mdynotes.com format. Creates structured summaries with metadata, hooks, takeaways, quotes, and references.
venue-templates
Access comprehensive LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major scientific publication venues (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM), academic conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, CHI), research posters, and grant proposals (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA). This skill should be used when preparing manuscripts for journal submission, conference papers, research posters, or grant proposals and need venue-specific formatting requirements and templates.
blog-research
Research legal technology topics for blog posts on alt-counsel (Ang Hou Fu's blog). Use when the user asks to research topics, find sources, fact-check claims, gather statistics, or find expert opinions for blog content. Prioritizes Singapore/ASEAN perspectives and flags US/EU-centric information. Outputs research findings to research.md in the post folder with proper citations.
vscode-extension-expert
Comprehensive VSCode extension development expert that guides you through creating extensions using the official Yeoman generator tool. Provides interactive setup, configuration guidance, and development workflow support. Covers scaffolding with yo code, extension anatomy, debugging, testing, publishing, and API reference. Features primary access to complete VS Code API documentation at `@source/vscode-docs/api/` for authoritative reference. Use when starting new VSCode extensions, setting up development environment, configuring extension manifests, debugging extensions, or when mentioning VSCode extension creation, TypeScript extensions, plugin development, or editor customization. Built with official VS Code documentation, generator best practices, and complete API reference.
systematic-debugging
Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes - four-phase framework (root cause investigation, pattern analysis, hypothesis testing, implementation) that ensures understanding before attempting solutions
google-adk
Agent Development Kit (ADK) expertise for the latest Python SDK and API reference
context-synthesis
Token-efficient context gathering and synthesis from multiple sources (memory, docs, web). Orchestrates MCP tools to build comprehensive context before analysis or interviews. Use when starting discovery, research, or analysis tasks.
researchgrounding-auditor
Audit outputs against provided sources, enforce grounding, and log an audit trail. Use when strict source fidelity is required.
feature-orchestrator
Research-backed feature implementation workflow enforcing gap analysis, incremental planning, agent coordination, and continuous integration best practices. Auto-invoked for ALL feature implementation requests to prevent code duplication and ensure CLAUDE.md compliance.
template-assistant
Generate intelligent content for PARA Obsidian vault templates. Use when asked to create new notes (project, area, resource, task, capture, daily, weekly-review, booking, checklist, itinerary, trip-research), populate template sections with AI-generated content, or understand what fields a template requires before creation.
testing-claude-plugins-with-python-sdk
Use when testing Claude Code plugins programmatically, building SDK applications, encountering plugin loading failures (plugins array empty), getting AttributeError on message.type, or needing verified Claude Agents SDK Python patterns - provides complete reference for correct message handling (isinstance not .type), plugin loading (setting_sources required), content block iteration, and all working patterns from official documentation
rtc-consensus-synthesis
Execute the Recursive Thought Committee (RTC) protocol by generating and harmonizing inputs from 5 specialized cognitive personas.
academic-writing-cs
Comprehensive toolkit for writing high-quality computer science research papers (conference, journal, thesis). Provides narrative construction guidance, sentence-level clarity principles (Gopen & Swan), academic phrasebank, CS-specific conventions, and section-by-section quality checklists. Use when assisting with academic paper writing, revision, or structure planning across all stages from drafting to submission.
content-research
Research-first content creation optimized for both human readers and AI search engines (Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini). Creates authentic, authoritative content that becomes the go-to citation source for AI models answering user questions. Use this skill when: - Creating content that should appear in AI search results (Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude) - Building topical authority to become THE source AI cites for a topic - Launching a new product and need compelling, citable content - Creating blog posts, articles, social media, or press releases - Need content that references real trends, people, and recent events - Want AI-assisted content that doesn't sound AI-generated - Creating thought leadership content in any industry Triggers: "create content for", "write about", "research and write", "find experts for", "content for launch", "blog post about", "article on", "press release for", "AI search", "show up in AI", "Perplexity", "be cited by AI"