Research

Use Codex CLI sandbox mode to try risky changes safely. Isolated experimentation with network disabled and directory restrictions.

Use when writing recommendation letters, reference letters, or award nominations for students, postdocs, or colleagues. Invoke when user mentions recommendation letter, reference, nomination, letter of support, endorsement, or needs help with strong advocacy, comparative statements, or evidence-based character assessment.

Quickly generate and triage research ideas with constraint clarity and confidence ceilings.

Identify and visualize research gaps, coverage, and conflicts with explicit constraints and evidence.

Systematic technology and market reconnaissance for extracting actionable intelligence from repositories, papers, and competitive landscapes.

Prepare research outputs for publication with compliance to venue rules, evidence integrity, and confidence ceilings.

[CLAUDE CODE ONLY] Leverage Codex CLI for AI peer review, second opinions on architecture and design decisions, cross-validation of implementations, security analysis, and alternative approach generation. Requires terminal access to execute Codex CLI commands. Use when making high-stakes decisions, reviewing complex architecture, or when explicitly requested for a second AI perspective. Must be explicitly invoked using skill syntax.

Use when transforming analysis/data into persuasive narratives—presenting to executives, explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences, creating customer-facing communications, writing investor updates, announcing changes, turning research into insights, or when user mentions "write this for", "explain to", "present findings", "make this compelling", "audience is". Invoke when information needs to become a story tailored to specific stakeholders.

Use when debates are trapped in false dichotomies, polarized positions need charitable interpretation, tradeoffs are obscured by binary framing, synthesis beyond 'pick one side' is needed, or when users mention steelman arguments, thesis-antithesis-synthesis, Hegelian dialectic, third way solutions, or resolving seemingly opposed principles.

Searches the web, researches topics online, finds current information using Gemini with Google Search grounding. Use when user asks to search the web, research information, find sources, look up current events, technology updates, or gather real-time data from the internet. Do not use for local file analysis or code execution.

Use when starting a forecast to establish a statistical baseline (base rate) before analyzing specifics. Invoke when need to anchor predictions in historical reality, avoid "this time is different" bias, or establish outside view before inside view analysis. Use when user mentions base rates, reference classes, outside view, or starting a new prediction.

Distinctive frontend design principles for avoiding generic AI defaults, implementing thoughtful typography/color/animations, and creating polished user experiences based on Claude Code design research

Conduct structured, interactive planning sessions for research tasks with explicit constraints and validated outputs.

Use when the user has a document (PDF, markdown, book notes, research paper, methodology guide) containing theoretical knowledge or frameworks and wants to convert it into an actionable, reusable skill. Invoke when the user mentions "create a skill from this document", "turn this into a skill", "extract a skill from this file", or when analyzing documents with methodologies, frameworks, processes, or systematic approaches that could be made actionable for future use.

Identify and document model hyperparameters from papers. Use when setting up training configurations.

AI-powered search engine with real-time web grounding and citations

Core research loop for scoping, searching, analyzing, and reporting with explicit constraints and validation.

Run multi-LLM council for adversarial debate and cross-validation. Orchestrates Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini for production-grade implementation, code review, architecture design, research, and security analysis.

Parse and interpret mathematical equations from research papers. Use when extracting formulas for implementation.

Automatically checks word counts of documents when the user mentions word count in relation to a file. Triggers on phrases like "Check the word count of X", "Stop when the word count is N", or similar references to document word counts. Use this skill proactively whenever word count is mentioned with a document reference.