Research skills
Browse reusable Agent Skills, each with a clear purpose and practical guidance.
humanities-skills
5 humanities skills. Trigger: textual analysis, archival research, digital humanities, philosophy. Design: digital tools and qualitative methods for humanities scholarship.
hypothesis-building
Build falsifiable causal hypotheses: DAGs, FPCI, equivalence testing.
hypothesis-generation
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.
interlibrary-loan-guide
Access papers through interlibrary loan and document delivery services
iv-estimation
Econometrics skill for instrumental variables and treatment effect estimation. Activates when the user asks about: "instrumental variables", "IV estimation", "2SLS", "two-stage least squares", "endogeneity", "weak instruments", "first stage", "Sargan test", "overidentification", "propensity score matching", "PSM", "average treatment effect", "ATT", "LATE", "local average treatment effect", "endogenous regressor", "instrument validity", "工具变量", "两阶段最小二乘", "内生性", "弱工具变量", "倾向得分匹配", "平均处理效应", "处理效应", "局部平均处理效应"
journal-selection
Use when choosing a target journal for a paper, comparing journal rankings, asking "where should I submit this", or building a submission strategy across multiple journals. Field-agnostic — detects the paper's research area and suggests appropriate outlets across tiers.
lit-review
Structured literature review using a parallel fleet of Librarian agents. Searches top journals, working paper repositories (NBER, SSRN, IZA), and traces citation chains from key papers. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to survey existing research on a topic — not to find datasets or write a paper. Triggers include: "review the literature", "find related papers", "what's been done on X", "search for papers on", "do a lit review", "find papers about", "what papers should I cite", "who has written about this", "survey the literature", "find prior work on", or any request to locate and summarize academic publications on a topic.
literature-survey-generator
Generate a complete academic literature survey from scratch using multi-agent orchestration. Searches academic databases (OpenAlex, CrossRef, Unpaywall), downloads PDFs, builds BibTeX, drafts a LaTeX review, compiles it, reviews for quality, and revises based on feedback — all automated. Use this skill whenever the user asks to "generate a literature review", "write a survey paper", "review recent papers on [topic]", "create a survey of [field]", "综述", "文献综述", "survey papers in top journals", or wants a multi-agent pipeline to produce a publishable-quality literature review. Also trigger when the user wants to search multiple journals for papers on a topic and synthesize findings into a structured document. Works for any academic field but optimized for economics journals.
macro-briefing
Macroeconomic monitor. Supports UK, US, Euro area, and Australia. Pulls GDP, inflation, employment, wages, rates, trade, housing, and fiscal data. Each country follows its central bank's reporting structure. Produces a single clean briefing with a traffic-light assessment and user-selectable sub-components.