Research

Expert-level research methodology, academic writing, statistical analysis, and scientific investigation

Conducts thorough landscape research, competitive analysis, best practices evaluation, and evidence-based recommendations. Expert in market research and trend analysis.

Comprehensive research and synthesis agent specializing in multi-source information gathering, critical analysis, and integrated knowledge synthesis. Excels at complex research projects requiring systematic investigation across domains, evidence evaluation, and coherent narrative construction.

Conducts thorough landscape research, competitive analysis, best practices evaluation, and evidence-based recommendations. Expert in market research and trend analysis.

Conducts thorough landscape research, competitive analysis, best practices evaluation, and evidence-based recommendations. Expert in market research and trend analysis.

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

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

Use when quantitative feasibility checks are needed, order-of-magnitude estimates must be established, or detailed models are required to validate design assumptions and identify rate-limiting steps

Stress-test book concepts against existing research before committing to architecture. Use when the user has a Book Concept Document ready for validation, wants to verify their thesis is defensible, needs to understand the competitive intellectual landscape, or wants honest assessment of their idea's strengths and weaknesses. Produces a Validation Report that informs the Go/No-Go decision. Nonfiction only.

Use when coordinating handoffs between workflows (e.g., skill-editor to programming-pm). Provides universal handoff schema v3.0, validation rules, distributed tracing conventions, and workflow discovery via frontmatter metadata.

Use when coordinating GENERIC multi-agent work with custom skill sequences, dependencies, or parallel workstreams. Default orchestrator when no domain-specific PM applies. NOT for software development (use programming-pm), literature reviews (use lit-pm), or quick research chains (use research-pipeline).

Use when multiple reviews or paper notes need integration, cross-cutting themes must be identified, or project-specific implications must be drawn from disparate sources. NOT for literature-review-specific synthesis at publication quality (use lit-synthesizer) or for prose polish (use editor).

Use when comprehensive literature research is needed, especially when quantitative parameters must be sourced from primary literature with proper citations and context (species, measurement methods, culture conditions). NOT for orchestrated multi-stage literature reviews (use lit-pm, which dispatches literature-researcher) or for writing final review synthesis prose (use lit-synthesizer).

Use when you need a QUICK automated research-to-polish chain (2-8h, fixed 5 stages — researcher -> synthesizer -> devils-advocate -> fact-checker -> editor) with no checkpoints. NOT for adaptive multi-stage reviews with parallel agents and complexity-based checkpoints (use lit-pm for 4-24h comprehensive) or custom sequences (use technical-pm).

Use when coordinating complex research tasks requiring literature synthesis, quantitative validation, or multi-source integration across researcher, calculator, synthesizer, and fact-checker skills

Use when directing a research project end-to-end — gathering team feedback from specialists (bioinformatician, senior-developer, biologist-commentator), making final scientific decisions, writing publication-quality prose, and delegating implementation via technical-pm. NOT for ad-hoc multi-agent coordination (use technical-pm) or work that needs a single specialist (invoke the specialist directly).

Use when seeking analogous solutions from other domains, when stuck on a problem and need fresh perspectives, or when evaluating whether approaches from field X might apply to field Y. Requires structured problem statement.

Use BEFORE writing any Python plotting code (matplotlib, seaborn, plotly) — recommends chart type, color palette, axis treatment, and accessibility choices using Tufte, Cleveland, Wong, and Wilke principles. Returns a structured checklist + a paste-ready decision card. Also lints existing figures on request. Triggers on 'plot', 'chart', 'visualize', 'graph', 'figure', 'heatmap', 'histogram', 'scatter', 'bar plot', or any mention of matplotlib/seaborn/plotly.

Protocol specification for multi-perspective brainstorming via 5 parallel agents with confidence-weighted synthesis. Executed by brainstorming-pm orchestrator.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "review this patent", "check the claims", "patent draft review", "is this claim accurate", "what's missing from this patent", or when a user pastes a patent draft or provides a .docx file path with patent content. Use this skill whenever a scientist needs to review a patent draft written by a lawyer — to check technical accuracy, identify gaps in claim coverage, or propose revised or new claim language. This is a multi-phase interactive workflow...

Specialized literature review skill with review discovery, deep targeted research (15-30 papers per section), recency surveys, and convergence tracking for comprehensive literature reviews

Senior scientific author for literature review synthesis with authority to restructure, rewrite, and add analysis across outline creation, introduction framing, and final synthesis

Use when coordinating COMPREHENSIVE adaptive literature reviews (4-24h, 9 stages with parallel review discovery, outline synthesis, section writing, fact-checking, editorial polish) with checkpoints calibrated to complexity. Orchestrates literature-researcher, lit-synthesizer, fact-checker, and editor. NOT for quick automated chains (use research-pipeline for fixed 5-stage 2-8h pipeline) or single-paper lookups (use researcher directly).

Use when documents with quantitative claims need citation verification, especially when every number must trace to a specific inline superscript citation before publication. NOT for science blog essays (use essay-fact-checker, which handles voice + tier verification) or for parameter-consistency checks across documents without citation focus (use consistency-auditor).