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Literature & Research Workflow AI skills

Make the path from question to evidence traceable.

Select skills for discovery, reference management, critical reading or manuscript preparation. Search results and AI summaries are starting points for source inspection.

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Keep search queries, dates, inclusion decisions and persistent identifiers. Verify that each cited source supports the claim made.
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arbor

Applies Arbor Hypothesis Tree Refinement to research artifacts with repeatable evaluators, including model training, agent harnesses, data synthesis and benchmark optimization. Uses persistent hypotheses, isolated experiments, evidence propagation and held-out candidate comparison for multi-experiment research runs. Includes a standard-library state manager and guidance for the RUC-NLPIR Arbor CLI.

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bgpt-paper-search

Searches BGPT scientific papers by topic or DOI and retrieves claim-level evidence extracted from full text, including experiments, reported statistics, scope, limitations, and provenance. Use for literature reviews, evidence synthesis, and finding experimental details beyond abstracts.

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citation-management

Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar 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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hypogenic

Plans and audits use of ChicagoHAI HypoGeniC/HypoRefine for LLM-assisted hypothesis generation from labeled text datasets. Use for the `hypogenic` package, its task configs, hypothesis banks, or HypoBench datasets—not for manual hypothesis formulation or scientific validation.

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hypothesis-generation

Formulates evidence-bounded scientific questions, candidate hypotheses, rival explanations, causal or associational claims, discriminating predictions, measurements, and preregistration-ready analysis plans. Used when turning observations or preliminary findings into transparent, testable research plans without treating hypotheses as facts.

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literature-review

Conducts systematic, scoping, and narrative literature reviews using PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, and other appropriate sources. Use for research synthesis, reproducible literature searches, screening, citation checking, or preparing Markdown and PDF reviews. Tracks search coverage, records versus studies, and evidence limitations; supports meta-analysis planning but does not supply a meta-analysis engine.

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market-research-reports

Builds evidence-traceable market research reports and assumption-driven market sizing or forecast scenarios. Use for market definition, industry and customer evidence, competitive landscapes, TAM/SAM/SOM reconciliation, forecast sensitivity, and auditable report scaffolds.

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open-notebook

Organizes research with the self-hosted Open Notebook alternative to NotebookLM. Supports source ingestion (PDFs, web pages, audio, video, and Office documents), cited document chat, text and vector search, notes, custom transformations, and multi-speaker podcasts. Use when automating Open Notebook through its REST API or configuring its local or cloud AI providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, Groq, and Mistral.

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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, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, CORE, Unpaywall, OpenCitations, PubTator3, Zenodo, Figshare, ROR, BioStudies, and DOAJ. Use when searching for papers, citations, DOI/PMID/arXiv lookups, abstracts, full text, open-access PDFs, preprints, citation graphs, author publications, biomedical entity annotations, deposited records (Zenodo, Figshare, BioStudies), institution ROR IDs, or any scholarly literature query. Triggers on mentions of any supported database or requests like "find papers on X", "look up this DOI", "who cites this paper", or "get me the PDF".

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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 SQL, map/reduce extraction, figure analysis, optional repositories and claim verification, and line-pinned citations. Use when a task names GXL paperclip, asks to install or authenticate it, or requests literature retrieval and evidence extraction through Paperclip.

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paperzilla

Reads projects, searches project feeds, and retrieves recommendations and canonical papers in Paperzilla through the pz CLI. Supports recent recommendations, paper details, markdown-based summaries, recommendation feedback, JSON export, and Atom feed URLs.

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peer-review

Prepares evidence-bounded, constructive peer-review drafts and structured manuscript assessments. Supports authorized review of scientific manuscripts, protocols, preprints, or research proposals; reporting-guideline selection; claim–evidence checks; methods, statistics, reproducibility, ethics, figure/table, and citation critique; or revision-response planning.

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research-grants

Supports research proposal preparation and review for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC, including opportunity-specific requirements, aims, review criteria, budgets, broader impacts, forms, and resubmissions. Use for investigator-authored grant development, compliance matrices, and proposal critiques.

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research-lookup

"Compiles current scholarly evidence for a scientific manuscript or research brief when the user explicitly asks to gather literature, references, background evidence, competing findings, or a manuscript research packet. Uses Parallel Search by default, Parallel Extract for source retrieval, Parallel Research for explicitly deep/exhaustive work, optional explicit Parallel Chat, and optional Perplexity only when requested or allowed as a failure fallback."

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scholar-evaluation

Provides qualitative-first, evidence-traceable developmental review of scholarly works and audit low-stakes research-assessment rubrics with optional local quality controls. Never use for ranking people or consequential decisions.

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scientific-brainstorming

Facilitates evidence-aware scientific ideation with independent generation, structured discussion, explicit assumptions, transparent evaluation, adversarial review, and decision logs. Use for early-stage research brainstorming or prioritizing candidate directions; hand off empirical validation, study design, ethics or regulatory review, and clinical questions to appropriate experts or skills.

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scientific-critical-thinking

Evaluates scientific claims and evidence quality. Applies to experimental design validity, biases and confounders, statistical interpretation, evidence grading frameworks (GRADE, Cochrane Risk of Bias), and teaching critical analysis. Supports evidence appraisal and identifying flaws; formal peer review writing belongs to peer-review.

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scientific-writing

Drafts, revises, and audits scientific manuscripts or reports with explicit evidence provenance, reporting-guideline coverage, authorship accountability, confidentiality controls, and local consistency checks. Use for manuscript sections, references, declarations, tables, figures, or submission preparation when scientific accuracy and traceability matter.

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venue-templates

Prepares journal manuscripts, conference papers, research posters, and grant documents using venue-specific formatting guidance and bundled LaTeX scaffolds. Supports selecting an official template, checking current page or anonymity rules, adapting academic writing to a venue, or inspecting a submission PDF.

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