literature-review
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Conduct a systematic literature review on an academic topic. Use when the user asks for a literature review, survey, or systematic overview of a research area.
84 other projects use a version of this.
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- delorenj/skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- DAAF-Contribution-Community/daaftheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- HughYau/AcademicForgetheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- BrightGold70/skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- nisarth/claude-skills-storetheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- tang1693/yunduan-ai-skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
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Projects with it also use pdf-explore, paper-narrative and 10 more.
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JimLiuSkillpdf-explore
Use this skill when the user has attached a PDF, paper, report, or other document and the answer needs content from more than one place in it: summarize the methods or any other section, compare sections, find where a topic is discussed, read a value or label off a figure or chart, or find/list/extract every instance of something across the whole document (datasets, benchmarks, citations, figures, table rows, accession numbers — including appendices). Skip it only for a single lookup of 1–4 pages quoted in your very next response — `read_file(pages=[...])` attaches pages as images that are dropped from context after one turn, so multi-section answers end up re-reading the same ranges repeatedly. Parses the PDF once in the Python kernel: `pdf_pages` (pages as persistent text), `pdf_outline` (TOC), `pdf_scan` (rank pages by relevance), `pdf_map`/`pdf_extract` (per-page summary / structured fields via parallel haiku calls). For PDF creation/manipulation, use reportlab/pypdf directly.
Also in 9 projects that use this
JimLiuSkillpaper-narrative
Judge and reshape the STORY a paper's figures tell. Input is the work itself — manuscript (or abstract) + figure deck — no hand-written brief. `derive_paper_brief(abstract, captions)` extracts pitch/vision/per-figure-claims; a handling-editor reviewer on the full deck returns hook_verdict (would Fig 1 make me send this for review?), arc (hook→mechanism→evidence→application), figure_moves (panels in the wrong figure), missing_panels (concrete analyses to RUN), kill_list, and boldest_defensible_fig1. Hands per-figure claims to `figure-composer`. Load when writing or revising a paper.
Also in 5 projects that use this
Norman-burySkillbrainstorming-research
Use before writing any paper - clarifies paper type, discipline, topic, methodology, and chapter structure through natural dialogue
Also in 4 projects that use this
lingzhi227Skilllatex-formatting
Handle LaTeX formatting, templates, and styling for academic papers. Set up conference templates (ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, AAAI, ACL), fix formatting issues, manage packages, and ensure venue-specific compliance. Use when the user needs to set up a paper template, fix LaTeX formatting, or prepare for submission.
Also in 4 projects that use this
lingzhi227Skillnovelty-assessment
Assess research idea novelty through systematic literature search. Multi-round search-evaluate loops with harsh critic persona. Binary novel/not-novel decision with justification. Use before committing to a research direction.
Also in 4 projects that use this
- +6 more from JimLiu
- +1 more from lingzhi227
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- advaitpaliwal/feynman★ 10ksame name
- companion-inc/feynman★ 10ksame name
- getcompanion-ai/feynman★ 10ksame name
- Norman-bury/research-writing-skill★ 3.4ksame name
- Norman-bury/articlewriting-skill★ 3.4ksame name
- HughYau/AcademicForge★ 2.6ksame name
- K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer★ 2.6ksame name
- xuzhougeng/wisp-science★ 1.1ksame name
- wu-yc/LabClaw★ 1.1ksame name
- LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills★ 910same name
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How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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3 rules. 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 65 edited versions we read keep these.
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This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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