Research

Polish writing to professional excellence through systematic craft analysis with multi-layer assessment of rhythm, voice, and commitment. Use when refining drafts, analyzing text for AI patterns or craft weaknesses, generating quality content, or teaching writing principles. Handles all writing types including long-form, business, technical, academic, and creative content.

Web research via Perplexity AI. Use when user asks to research topics, compare technologies (X vs Y), find best practices, lookup industry standards, or get current information. Triggers on "research", "compare", "vs", "best practice", "pros and cons", "which is better".

Use when writing or reviewing NIH, NSF, or foundation grant proposals. Invoke when user mentions specific aims, R01, R21, K-series, significance, innovation, approach section, grant writing, proposal review, research strategy, or needs help with fundable hypothesis, reviewer-friendly structure, or compliance with grant guidelines.

Use when reviewing or editing research manuscripts, journal articles, reviews, or perspectives. Invoke when user mentions manuscript, paper draft, article, research writing, journal submission, reviewer feedback, or needs to improve scientific writing clarity, structure, or argumentation in their manuscript.

Use Gemini CLI for research with Google Search grounding and 1M token context

Research-to-release SOP for high-conversion landing pages with validated copy, design, and deployment steps.

Advanced defect eradication with hypothesis-driven RCA, guarded fixes, and comprehensive validation.

Reference the LOCAL connect-go/ directory for ConnectRPC protocol. NEVER use WebFetch/WebSearch for github.com/connectrpc/connect-go - always read local files.

Use when you need to generate many creative options before systematically narrowing to the best choices. Invoke when exploring product ideas, solving open-ended problems, generating strategic alternatives, developing research questions, designing experiments, or when you need both breadth (many ideas) and rigor (principled selection). Use when user mentions brainstorming, ideation, divergent thinking, generating options, or evaluating alternatives.

Use when investigating why something happened and need to distinguish correlation from causation, identify root causes vs symptoms, test competing hypotheses, control for confounding variables, or design experiments to validate causal claims. Invoke when debugging systems, analyzing failures, researching health outcomes, evaluating policy impacts, or when user mentions root cause, causal chain, confounding, spurious correlation, or asks "why did this really happen?"

Research-driven essay and post creation with thematic synthesis, citation management, and voice calibration. Use when creating Substack/LinkedIn posts, long-form essays synthesizing multiple sources, or publication-grade writing requiring web search, narrative arc, and proper attribution. Triggers include "research and write about [topic]" or "dig into this idea and write."

Implements tasks from .plans/ directories by following implementation guidance, writing code and tests, and updating task status. Use when task file is in implementation/ directory and requires code implementation with comprehensive testing. Launches research agents when stuck.

Guide when to use built-in tools (WebFetch, WebSearch) and MCP servers (Parallel Search, Perplexity, Context7) for research. Synthesize findings into narrative for braindump. Use when gathering data, examples, or citations for blog posts.

Establish observability for research systems, experiments, and data pipelines with guardrails and confidence ceilings.

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.