Guide: Research & Discovery
Eight skills cover everything from “what has been done” to “where the gap is”, and every one of them insists on real, resolvable citations.
literature-search
Section titled “literature-search”Multi-source search across OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, PubMed, and Scite. Deduplicates by DOI then by title, ranks by relevance and citation count, and (in systematic mode) records a PRISMA flow with a reproducible search-provenance record.
Trigger it: “Do a systematic literature search on X”, “Find recent papers on Y”.
research-convergence
Section titled “research-convergence”Not just finding papers, but converging on an argument. Three modes: Socratic (interactive), Full Research (deep, multi-round), and Flash (a quick scan).
fact-checking
Section titled “fact-checking”Verifies a claim against the literature and returns a verdict (Supported, Contested, Partially Supported, Contradicted, or Unsupported) with the evidence behind it. It will return Unsupported rather than invent a source.
Trigger it: “/researcher:fact-check <claim>”.
sota-finder
Section titled “sota-finder”Tracks state-of-the-art results for a benchmark. Every number in the table is traced to the paper that reported it; leaderboard claims that cannot be traced are marked unverified.
Trigger it: “/researcher:sota <benchmark>”.
research-gaps
Section titled “research-gaps”Systematically identifies methodological, empirical, and theoretical gaps, and ranks them by impact potential, backing each with the searches that failed to find prior work.
citation-context
Section titled “citation-context”Classifies how a paper is cited (supporting, contrasting, or mentioning) and audits your manuscript for sources you may have misrepresented.
citation-audit
Section titled “citation-audit”The whole-manuscript integrity pass, added in 0.4.0. Runs a two-level check over every citation: an existence gate (does each reference resolve, and is it retracted) and a claim-faithfulness audit (does each cited passage actually support the claim). With the optional evidence kernel installed it verifies against multiple independent indexes with the four-state verdict; without it, it degrades to the single-index bib-validator.py check.
Trigger it: “Audit my citations”, “/researcher:verify-citations”.
research-pipeline
Section titled “research-pipeline”Drives a manuscript end to end as staged, checkpointed work, added in 0.4.0: Plan, Retrieve, Synthesize, Draft, Review, Compile, and Format, pausing for the author after every stage and refusing to format until the evidence-lineage compile gate passes.
Trigger it: “/researcher:research-pipeline <question>”.
See it in action
Section titled “See it in action”The literature review recipe runs a systematic search and a fact-check end to end, and the examples/research-verification/ folder has the full worked output.