Research
Research tools and academic skills
3205 skills in this category
Subcategories
source-only-enforcer
CRITICAL QUALITY GATE: Enforces source-only policy for ALL medical study guide creation.ACTIVATES when creating study guides for ANY medical specialty: pharmacology, pathophysiology,clinical medicine, physical examination, or procedures.BLOCKS creation without pre-creation verification checklist confirming source file and template.This skill prevents adding external medical facts (except researched mnemonics) and ensuresall study guide content comes exclusively from the specified source file.
policyengine-writing
PolicyEngine writing style for blog posts, documentation, PR descriptions, and research reports - emphasizing active voice, quantitative precision, and neutral tone
la-bench-procedure-generator
This skill should be used when generating detailed experimental procedures from LA-Bench format JSONL files. It orchestrates multiple subagents to parse input data, fetch reference materials, generate procedures, validate outputs, refine results, and produce final formatted outputs. Triggered by requests to process LA-Bench data or generate experimental protocols from data/public_test.jsonl or data/private_test_input.jsonl files.
dhep-document
Generate professionally styled PDFs with DHEPLab branding for client documents.Supports proposals, research reports, white papers, policy briefs, and executive summaries.Uses ReportLab for PDF generation with consistent brand typography and colors.
knowledge-manager
Research and document new parasites, cleanup locations, and hidden data. Use when asked to add a parasite, discover zombie processes, research app persistence, add cleanup locations, or run iterative discovery loops (Ralph Wiggum). Handles all knowledge base modifications.
content-research-writer
Creates high-quality content (blog posts, tweets, newsletters, documentation) that matches the user's writing style and voice. Performs web research to find citations and supporting evidence. Use when user requests blog posts, marketing content, newsletters, tweets, or any written content that should sound authentic and be well-researched.
path-reference
Create properly formatted references to paths (files or folders) in a git repository. Use when writing docs that need to link to any path in the repo.
proxmox
Proxmox VE virtualization platform reference for VM/LXC management, clustering,storage, and networking. Includes Terraform and Ansible integration patterns.Use when working with Proxmox configurations, CLI commands, troubleshootingVMs/containers, or planning resource allocation.Triggers: proxmox, qemu, kvm, lxc, pve, vm, container, cluster, vzdump, qm, pct.
book-research-assistant
Plan, orchestrate, and validate deep research for nonfiction books. Use when an author has completed book architecture and needs to fill research gaps before outlining chapters. Triggers include requests to plan research, generate research prompts, validate research quality, or prepare for drafting. This skill does everything around deep research—planning, prompting, validating, synthesizing—but the actual research execution happens externally via Claude and Gemini deep research. Requires upstream documents from book-architect (Research Gaps Document, Master Architecture Document, Section Blueprints) and book-ideation (Book Concept Document).
obsidian-internal-links
Follow and resolve Obsidian internal links ([[link]] syntax) to navigate interconnected notes within an Obsidian vault. Use when exploring note relationships, following references between documents, building knowledge graphs, or understanding how notes connect together. Supports recursive link traversal with configurable depth.
meta-analysis
Use when performing meta-analysis, pooling study data, generating forest plots, funnel plots, assessing heterogeneity, or conducting subgroup and sensitivity analyses. Invoke for any statistical synthesis of multiple studies.
note
Quick capture for thoughts, observations, or ideas during research sessions. Use when the user types /note or wants to capture a quick thought without context-switching. Logs timestamped notes to activity.md. Supports both explicit /note command and natural language like "make a note" or "jot down".
makefile-review
Audit Makefiles for duplication, portability, and idiomatic GNU Make usage using research-driven heuristics.
academic-research
Conduct deep academic research for philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive science, and theoretical computer science (computability, complexity, AI theory, logic). Use when user asks to: research academic topics, find scholarly papers, conduct literature reviews, analyze citations, synthesize research findings, explore philosophical arguments, investigate consciousness/cognition, study computability/decidability/Turing machines, or analyze academic debates. Triggers on: 'research papers', 'literature review', 'academic sources', 'scholarly articles', 'philosophy of mind', 'computability theory', 'neuroscience studies', 'find papers on', 'what does the research say'.
incident-root-cause-analyzer
Comprehensive incident root cause analysis skill for distributed systems. Analyzes logs, metrics, and traces to identify cascading failures, resource contention, and root causes through systematic anomaly detection, timeline correlation, and evidence-based hypothesis testing.
life-os-knowledge
Personal knowledge base for Shapira family daily life. Use when querying or storing information about hotels, swim meet venues, travel logistics, restaurants, service providers, or any location-based preferences. Triggers on phrases like "remember this hotel", "where did we stay", "next time in [city]", "log this location", or references to past stays/visits.
newsletter-campaign-workflow
Guide for working with newsletter campaigns, RSS processing workflows, article generation, MailerLite integration, multi-tenant isolation, campaign status management, Vercel workflows, advertorial rotation, and publication automation. Use when creating campaigns, processing RSS feeds, generating articles, managing workflow steps, handling campaign statuses, or working with newsletter-related database operations.
anndata
This skill should be used when working with annotated data matrices in Python, particularly for single-cell genomics analysis, managing experimental measurements with metadata, or handling large-scale biological datasets. Use when tasks involve AnnData objects, h5ad files, single-cell RNA-seq data, or integration with scanpy/scverse tools.
research
Use when you need to research, analyze, and plan technical solutions that are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
cite-assist-research
Semantic search across Zotero library using cite-assist v3 API for academic research