Academic
Academic writing, research, citations
Uses and selection guide
Use these skills to structure research, learning and domain-specific tasks. Read the source instructions for the intended scope, required inputs and cited references; verify specialist conclusions against primary sources.
academic-workspace
by Prismer-AI
Manage the academic workspace — project structure, templates, and output organization.
academic-jupyter
by Prismer-AI
Manage Jupyter notebooks — create, execute cells, manage kernels via the container's Jupyter Server REST API.
academic-prover
by Prismer-AI
Formal verification with Lean 4, Coq, and Z3 SMT solver via the container's prover server.
academic-latex
by Prismer-AI
Compile LaTeX documents to PDF using the container's TeX Live installation. Supports pdflatex, xelatex, and lualatex engines.
hypothesis-generation
by brycewang-stanford
Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. Use when you have experimental observations or data and need to formulate testable hypotheses with predictions, propose mechanisms, and design experiments to test them. Follows scientific method framework. For open-ended ideation use scientific-brainstorming; for automated LLM-driven hypothesis testing on datasets use hypogenic.
Getting Started with Research Superpowers
by brycewang-stanford
Introduction to literature search & review skills - systematic paper finding, screening, extraction, and citation traversal
hypothesis-generation
by brycewang-stanford
"Generate testable hypotheses. Formulate from observations, design experiments, explore competing explanations, develop predictions, propose mechanisms, for scientific inquiry across domains."
medical-imaging-review
by brycewang-stanford
Write comprehensive literature reviews for medical imaging AI research. Use when writing survey papers, systematic reviews, or literature analyses on topics like segmentation, detection, classification in CT, MRI, X-ray, ultrasound, or pathology imaging. Triggers on requests for "review paper", "survey", "literature review", "综述", "systematic review", or mentions of writing academic reviews on deep learning for medical imaging.
Traversing Citation Networks
by brycewang-stanford
Smart backward and forward citation following via Semantic Scholar, with relevance filtering and deduplication
Subagent-Driven Literature Review
by brycewang-stanford
Use parallel subagents for large-scale paper screening and deep dive analysis
publication-output
by brycewang-stanford
This skill covers publication-quality tables and figures for academic research papers. Use when formatting regression results, summary statistics, Monte Carlo output, or research visualizations for LaTeX inclusion. Triggers on "table", "figure", "tabulate", "stargazer", "publication-ready", "LaTeX table", "event study plot", "coefficient plot", "RD plot", "power curve", "specification curve", "binscatter", "format results", "booktabs".
scientific-writing
by brycewang-stanford
Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. Write scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process with (1) section outlines with key points using research-lookup then (2) convert to flowing prose. IMRAD structure, citations (APA/AMA/Vancouver), figures/tables, reporting guidelines (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA), for research papers and journal submissions.
Answering Research Questions
by brycewang-stanford
Main orchestration workflow for systematic literature research - search, evaluate, traverse, synthesize
review-paper
by brycewang-stanford
Comprehensive manuscript review covering argument structure, econometric specification, citation completeness, and potential referee objections
lit-review
by brycewang-stanford
Structured literature search and synthesis with citation extraction and gap identification
paper-slide-deck
by brycewang-stanford
Generate professional slide deck images from academic papers and content. Creates comprehensive outlines with style instructions, auto-detects figures from PDFs, then generates individual slide images. Use when user asks to "create slides", "make a presentation", "generate deck", or "slide deck" for papers.
workflows:brainstorm
by brycewang-stanford
Explore methodological approaches through structured analysis before planning implementation
workflows:ideate
by brycewang-stanford
"Divergent research ideation — generate many candidate directions, then adversarially filter to the strongest"
academic-paper-strategist
by brycewang-stanford
'Systematic strategic planning framework for philosophy and interdisciplinary academic papers targeting preprint platforms (PhilArchive, arXiv, PhilSci-Archive). Use when users want to: (1) plan a paper on a specific topic, (2) identify research gaps and assess originality, (3) develop optimized paper outlines, (4) prepare for preprint submission, or (5) understand platform requirements and writing standards. Triggered by phrases like ''plan a paper on,'' ''help me design a paper about,'' ''identify research gaps in,'' ''is this idea original,'' or when users need structured research planning. The skill guides through three phases: Platform Analysis (identifying target venue and studying sample papers), Theoretical Framework (AI-driven literature search and gap identification), and Outline Optimization (structured design with reviewer-perspective self-assessment). Each phase includes quality evaluation standards and validation checkpoints. Output: optimized detailed outline ready for systematic writing (use with academic-paper-composer skill).'
literature-review
by brycewang-stanford
Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). This skill should be used when conducting systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, research synthesis, or comprehensive literature searches across biomedical, scientific, and technical domains. Creates professionally formatted markdown documents and PDFs with verified citations in multiple citation styles (APA, Nature, Vancouver, etc.).
research-ideation
by brycewang-stanford
Generate research questions from economic phenomena
Searching Scientific Literature
by brycewang-stanford
PubMed search with keyword optimization, result parsing, and metadata extraction
Finding Open Access Papers
by brycewang-stanford
Use Unpaywall API to find free full-text versions of paywalled papers
citation-management
by brycewang-stanford
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.