academic-research-skills

Shows active maintenance signals

Quick Start

# Start a full research pipeline
You: "I want to write a research paper on AI's impact on higher education QA"

# Start with Socratic guidance
You: "Guide my research on AI in educational evaluation"

# Write a paper with guided planning
You: "Guide me through writing a paper on demographic decline"

# Review an existing paper
You: "Review this paper" (then provide the paper)

# Check pipeline status
You: "status"

Individual Skills

Deep Research (8 modes)

"Research the impact of AI on higher education"       → full mode
"Give me a quick brief on X"                          → quick mode
"Do a systematic review on X with PRISMA"             → systematic-review mode
"Guide my research on X"                              → socratic mode (guided)
"Fact-check these claims"                             → fact-check mode
"Do a literature review on X"                         → lit-review mode
"Compare these papers in WHY/HOW/WHAT format"         → three-way-scan mode
"Review this paper's research quality"                → review mode

Academic Paper (11 modes)

"Write a paper on X"                                  → full mode
"Guide me through writing a paper"                    → plan mode (guided)
"Build a paper outline"                               → outline-only mode
"I have a draft, here are reviewer comments"          → revision mode
"Parse these reviewer comments into a roadmap"        → revision-coach mode
"Write an abstract for this paper"                    → abstract-only mode
"Turn this into a literature review paper"            → lit-review mode
"Convert to LaTeX" / "Convert citations to IEEE"      → format-convert mode
"Check citations"                                     → citation-check mode
"Generate an AI disclosure statement for NeurIPS"     → disclosure mode
"Audit my rebuttal draft against the reviews"         → rebuttal-audit mode

Academic Paper Reviewer (6 modes)

"Review this paper"                                   → full mode (EIC + R1/R2/R3 + Devil's Advocate)
"Quick assessment of this paper"                      → quick mode
"Guide me to improve this paper"                      → guided mode
"Check the methodology"                               → methodology-focus mode
"Verify the revisions"                                → re-review mode
"Calibrate this reviewer against my gold set"         → calibration mode

Academic Pipeline (Orchestrator)

"I want to write a complete research paper"           → full pipeline from Stage 1
"I already have a paper, review it"                   → mid-entry at Stage 2.5 (integrity first)
"I received reviewer comments"                        → mid-entry at Stage 4

Pipeline ends with Stage 6: Process Summary — auto-generates a paper creation process record with 6-dimension Collaboration Quality Evaluation (1–100 scoring).

Supported Languages

• Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) — default when user writes in Chinese
• English — default when user writes in English
• Bilingual abstracts (Chinese + English) for academic papers

Using a different language? Socratic mode (deep-research) and Plan mode (academic-paper) use intent-based activation — they detect the meaning of your request, not specific keywords. This means they work in any language without modification.

However, the general Trigger Keywords section (which determines whether the skill is activated at all) still lists English and Traditional Chinese keywords. If you find the skill isn't activating reliably in your language, you can add your language's keywords to the ### Trigger Keywords section in each SKILL.md file to improve matching confidence.

Supported Citation Formats

• APA 7.0 (default, including Chinese citation rules)
• Chicago (Notes & Author-Date)
• MLA
• IEEE
• Vancouver

Supported Paper Structures

• IMRaD (empirical research)
• Thematic Literature Review
• Theoretical Analysis
• Case Study
• Policy Brief
• Conference Paper

👉 docs/ARCHITECTURE.md — the full pipeline view: flow diagram, stage-by-stage matrix, data-access flow, skill dependency graph, quality gates, and mode list.

The architecture doc supersedes the sprawling pipeline description that used to live here. Everything about what runs in which stage now lives in one place.

Plugin install (v3.7.0+, recommended):

/plugin marketplace add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
/plugin install academic-research-skills

Verify it works: run /ars-plan and describe a paper you're working on — ARS will start a Socratic dialogue to map out chapter structure. For a single-shot test instead, try /ars-lit-review "your topic".

👉 docs/SETUP.md — full guide: install Claude Code, set up API keys, optional Pandoc/tectonic for DOCX/PDF, cross-model verification (ARS_CROSS_MODEL), and six installation methods (Plugin, project skills, global skills, claude.ai Project, repo-cloned, Claude Science import).

Using Claude Science? The four skills import directly: Skills → Import from GitHub, paste https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills, Preview, then Import 4 skills (requires v3.14.0+ of this repo — the importer reads the explicit skill paths in the marketplace manifest). Imports are point-in-time snapshots: re-import after ARS updates. Imported skills carry the ARS methodology (research / writing / review protocols); Claude Code-specific machinery — slash commands, hooks, subagent orchestration — does not transfer. See docs/SETUP.md Method 5 for details.

Using Codex CLI? Install the sibling distribution instead: Imbad0202/academic-research-skills-codex — same workflow content, Codex-native packaging as a single $academic-research-suite skill with ars-* aliases.

Third-party platforms and integrations that wrap or host ARS are listed in THIRD_PARTY.md — community-submitted and not reviewed or endorsed by the maintainer.