Research skills

Browse reusable Agent Skills, each with a clear purpose and practical guidance.

vellum-self-knowledge

Answer questions about Vellum, the assistant's architecture, capabilities, and current configuration by routing to live sources of truth

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research-then-implement

Agent Loop for tasks that need research before implementation: check existing research first, run structured investigation (bb-browser/context7/code study), produce a Brief, then implement against the Brief. Prevents repeated research on already-studied topics and research-to-implementation drift.

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product-guide

Help users understand Eclaire's features, capabilities, and best practices for organizing their personal knowledge base.

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baseline-status

Use this skill to check the browser support and Baseline status of web features.

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arxiv-search

Search arXiv for preprints in physics, math, CS, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering, economics. Use when: (1) finding preprints by topic, (2) searching by author, (3) browsing arXiv categories, (4) getting paper metadata/abstracts. NOT for: published journal articles (use crossref-search), biomedical (use pubmed-search).

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asreview-screening

Screen papers for systematic reviews using ASReview active learning. Use when: user has a large set of papers to screen for inclusion/exclusion, wants to prioritize relevant papers, or needs to reduce manual screening workload. NOT for: searching papers (use literature-search) or meta-analysis (use meta-analysis).

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astropy-astronomy

Astronomical computations via Astropy. Use when: user asks about celestial coordinates, FITS files, or cosmological calculations. NOT for: telescope control or real-time observation planning.

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bioinformatics

Performs bioinformatics analyses including pathway enrichment, gene ontology analysis, protein-protein interaction networks, multi-omics integration, and biological sequence database querying; trigger when users discuss gene sets, biological pathways, functional annotation, or omics data integration.

866 repo starsObserved in 3 repos
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biopython-bio

Bioinformatics operations via Biopython. Use when: user asks about DNA/protein sequences, BLAST, or PDB structures. NOT for: clinical genomics or variant calling pipelines.

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