Fetch the day's top arXiv submissions in a chosen category, write a structured per-paper digest, render the digest as a PPTX deck (one slide per paper), and persist the digest to long-term memory. Use for a daily 'arxiv morning briefing' — manual fire or cron-scheduled.
Bootstrap a domain knowledge base from a single seed (URL / PDF path / git repo / free-text topic): classify source → ingest with the right tool → persist to memory + xlsx index.
Query the web through multiple search engines (Brave, Tavily, SerpAPI, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Baidu, Sogou, 360) with a single CLI surface. Trigger when the user asks for a research search, fact lookup, source discovery, or wants to compare engines for coverage. The skill aggregates per-engine result lists and normalizes them into a uniform JSON shape for downstream skills (deep-research is the primary consumer). API-key engines gate themselves on the relevant environment variable; engines requiring no key always run.
Author a 5-section paper outline (abstract / introduction / method / results / discussion) for a research topic, citing supplied reference keys when relevant.
Extract paper-writing preferences from a user request before research and drafting, choosing direct generation defaults when the request does not require a preference interview.
Research & data on your shell PATH via the `alice` CLI — THIS WORKBENCH's read surfaces: the collected-RSS archive (`alice rss`), cross-asset symbol search (`alice market search` → barIds), and K-line quant analysis (`alice analysis`). Use for: "grep the collected feeds for the Fed", "find the barId for AAPL", "compute RSI on this chart", "I can't find a Taiwan/CN stock — add a data vendor". Output is JSON; discover every flag with `alice --help` / `alice <group> <verb> --help` — do NOT guess. (Low-frequency market data — fundamentals, macro series, calendars, boards — is the separate `traderhub` CLI; the quant scripting manual is the `alice-analysis` skill.)
Read-only access to the long tail of sites Alice's own tools do NOT cover, via the community `opencli` CLI (~160 site adapters): social sentiment (Reddit, HackerNews, Twitter/X, Bluesky, Xueqiu 雪球, Weibo), options flow (Barchart), crypto long-tail (CoinGecko, DeFiLlama, Binance), global news frontpages (Bloomberg, Reuters, BBC), CN money-flow (Eastmoney 东方财富 northbound / longhu / money-flow / hot-rank), research (arXiv, PubMed, Google Scholar), and a generic `web read` fallback. Triggers: "what's reddit / 雪球 saying about X", "unusual options flow on Y", "TVL of Z", "Bloomberg headlines", "northbound flow today", "search arXiv for…", any read from a site Alice has no tool for. READ-ONLY — never invoke write commands. opencli is NOT bundled with OpenAlice: if it's missing and a task would benefit, you MUST say so and ask the user — never install silently, never silently work with thinner data.