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Academic
Papers, citations, and university tools.
research-ops
Evidence-first current-state research workflow for ECC. Use when the user wants fresh facts, comparisons, enrichment, or a recommendation built from current public evidence and any supplied local context.
editor
Professional editing and proofreading for clarity, grammar, style, and readability improvements. Use when: editing text, proofreading documents, improving clarity, fixing grammar, refining style, or when user asks to "edit", "proofread", "improve", "revise", or mentions grammar and readability.
Academic
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fact-checker
Systematic fact verification and misinformation identification using evidence-based analysis. Use when: verifying claims, checking facts, identifying misinformation, evaluating source credibility, or when user asks to "fact check", "verify", "is this true", or mentions claims that need validation.
academic-paper-review
Use this skill when the user requests to review, analyze, critique, or summarize academic papers, research articles, preprints, or scientific publications. Supports comprehensive structured reviews covering methodology assessment, contribution evaluation, literature positioning, and constructive feedback generation. Trigger on queries involving paper URLs, uploaded PDFs, arXiv links, or requests like "review this paper", "analyze this research", "summarize this study", or "write a peer review".
systematic-literature-review
Use this skill when the user wants a systematic literature review, survey, or synthesis across multiple academic papers on a topic. Also covers annotated bibliographies and cross-paper comparisons. Searches arXiv and outputs reports in APA, IEEE, or BibTeX format. Not for single-paper tasks — use academic-paper-review for reviewing one paper.
arxiv
Search and retrieve academic papers from arXiv using their free REST API. No API key needed. Search by keyword, author, category, or ID. Combine with web_extract or the ocr-and-documents skill to read full paper content.
content-research-writer
Assists in writing high-quality content by conducting research, adding citations, improving hooks, iterating on outlines, and providing real-time feedback on each section. Transforms your writing process from solo effort to collaborative partnership.
pre-publish-review
Nuclear-grade 16-agent pre-publish release gate. Runs /get-unpublished-changes to detect all changes since last npm release, spawns up to 10 ultrabrain agents for deep per-change analysis, invokes /review-work (5 agents) for holistic review, and 1 oracle for overall release synthesis. Use before EVERY npm publish. Triggers: 'pre-publish review', 'review before publish', 'release review', 'pre-release review', 'ready to publish?', 'can I publish?', 'pre-publish', 'safe to publish', 'publishing review', 'pre-publish check'.
bmad-retrospective
Post-epic review to extract lessons and assess success. Use when the user says "run a retrospective" or "lets retro the epic [epic]"
bmad-advanced-elicitation
Push the LLM to reconsider, refine, and improve its recent output. Use when user asks for deeper critique or mentions a known deeper critique method, e.g. socratic, first principles, pre-mortem, red team.
bmad-editorial-review-prose
Clinical copy-editor that reviews text for communication issues. Use when user says review for prose or improve the prose
bmad-review-adversarial-general
Perform a Cynical Review and produce a findings report. Use when the user requests a critical review of something
search
Search your MemPalace — semantic search across all mined memories, projects, and conversations.
cookbook-audit
Audit an Anthropic Cookbook notebook based on a rubric. Use whenever a notebook review or audit is requested.
hugging-face-paper-publisher
Publish and manage research papers on Hugging Face Hub. Supports creating paper pages, linking papers to models/datasets, claiming authorship, and generating professional markdown-based research articles.
hybrid-search-implementation
Combine vector and keyword search for improved retrieval. Use when implementing RAG systems, building search engines, or when neither approach alone provides sufficient recall.
seo-content-auditor
Analyzes provided content for quality, E-E-A-T signals, and SEO best practices. Scores content and provides improvement recommendations based on established guidelines.
citation-management
Manage citations systematically throughout the research and writing process.