Skip to content
cccskills

Research & Learning skills

Research, academic papers, education, and exam prep (4.4K skills)

Filter by price or sort order

help

FreeSummary

Find your way around Diverga with a guide to its 24 research agents across nine categories. View commands, example requests, direct invocation syntax, and checkpoints where people review research decisions, with recommendations based on research context.

  • Explore Diverga's research agents
  • Find commands for setup and diagnostics
  • Choose an agent for a research task
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

c3

FreeSummary

Design studies that combine quantitative data, such as surveys, with qualitative evidence, such as interviews. It recommends a suitable design and outlines study phases, participant selection, timing, and ways to combine findings into an integrated interpretation.

  • Plan follow-up interviews to explain survey results
  • Develop survey measures from interview findings
  • Compare quantitative and qualitative findings
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

a5

FreeSummary

Clarify the philosophical assumptions behind a research project and check whether they fit the proposed methods. Get a reasoned research stance, draft proposal wording, and guidance for explaining how the researcher's background and values shape the study.

  • Clarifying philosophical foundations for a research proposal
  • Explaining why the chosen research methods fit the study
  • Drafting a statement about the researcher's position
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

split-pdf

FreeSummary

Download and read academic PDFs in small batches, splitting them into four-page files. Build structured notes covering research questions, methods, data, findings, and replication feasibility, with progress saved after each batch.

  • Read a long academic paper in manageable batches
  • Extract data sources and statistical methods
  • Assess whether a study can be replicated
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

workflows:ideate

FreeSummary

Generate 15–20 research directions from a question, topic, or data opportunity, then narrow them to 5–7 candidates. Receive ranked ideas with feasibility assessments, key risks, confidence scores, and reasons for rejecting the others.

  • Explore research directions from a broad topic
  • Find research uses for newly available data
  • Compare ideas by feasibility and contribution
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

review-paper

FreeSummary

Review academic manuscripts for argument quality, causal evidence, statistical methods, citations, and presentation. Receive a structured report with strengths, major concerns, suggested improvements, and likely referee objections tied to specific parts of the paper.

  • Reviewing a manuscript before submission
  • Checking the assumptions behind causal claims
  • Anticipating referee objections and possible responses
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

research-setup

FreeSummary

Configure the social-science-research plugin through guided questions about your field, institution, journals, and datasets. Save research preferences, researcher details, and R figure colors in project files for use in your research context.

  • Set up a newly installed research plugin
  • Register journals and datasets for a research field
  • Save key researchers for literature searches
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

validate-bib

FreeSummary

Check citations in LaTeX and Quarto manuscripts against a bibliography file. Find missing references, unused entries, and likely citation key typos, then flag incomplete fields, author formatting problems, and character encoding issues.

  • Investigating undefined citation errors
  • Checking bibliography completeness after adding references
  • Finding unused bibliography entries
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Review a research paper alongside its Stata, R, or Python code to check reproducibility, code quality, and agreement with the main findings. Receive a Markdown report with supporting evidence, uncertainties, strengths, and prioritized next steps.

  • Checking reproducibility before sharing research code
  • Matching main tables and figures to analysis scripts
  • Reviewing dependencies, file paths, and execution order
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

newproject

FreeSummary

Set up a research project with separate folders for code, source data, cleaned datasets, results, and documents. Create a research rules file from a template, a project README, and an initial progress log.

  • Starting a new research project
  • Standardizing folders across research projects
  • Separating source data from cleaned datasets
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

new-project

FreeSummary

Turn an initial research idea into a project specification through a structured interview. Develop testable questions, hypotheses, methods for identifying causal effects, and data requirements, then rank options by feasibility and contribution and save the plan.

  • Turn a broad topic into research questions
  • Compare approaches for identifying causal effects
  • Prioritize questions by feasibility and contribution
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

quality-gate

FreeSummary

Check a paper's numerical claims against saved analysis outputs before submission. Receive a report identifying verified figures, unsupported claims, missing files, unreferenced outputs, and citation keys absent from the bibliography, without changing the manuscript.

  • Check manuscript numbers before submission
  • Verify table and figure references against output files
  • Find analysis outputs not referenced in the paper
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Check an economics paper before submission with two parallel reviewers. Assess its contribution, whether the design supports causal conclusions, and unsupported claims, then receive a short report with fixes ranked by severity.

  • Checking an economics paper before submission
  • Reviewing whether evidence supports causal claims
  • Finding unsupported mechanisms and broad generalizations
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

data-finder

FreeSummary

Find datasets for a research question and compare whether they support the planned study. Receive ranked candidates with feasibility grades, coverage, access requirements, methodological limitations, and recommended next steps for obtaining the most suitable data.

  • Find datasets for a research question
  • Check whether data supports the planned research method
  • Compare access requirements and waiting times
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Turn research ideas into a coordinated program with clear questions, data needs, methods, team roles, and publication plans. Connect academic papers with policy and public-facing outputs while considering feasibility, data availability, and long-term institutional activities.

  • Design a multi-year research program
  • Turn research ideas into defined projects
  • Plan roles for student research teams
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

replicate

FreeSummary

Build and check research replication packages so a project's results can be reproduced. Routes checks to a dedicated agent that examines seeds, versions, file paths, workflow integrity, data documentation, execution environments, and matching outputs.

  • Preparing a research replication package
  • Checking seeds, versions, and file paths
  • Verifying reproduced outputs against expected results
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

slfg

FreeSummary

Carry a research task from brainstorming and planning through code implementation, review, and documentation. Multiple agents handle independent implementation tasks in parallel, then report the resulting files, changes, and findings.

  • Take a research task from initial ideas through implementation
  • Split independent implementation tasks among multiple agents
  • Run review and knowledge documentation after implementation
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

fletcher

FreeSummary

Examine figures, tables, and empirical results before interpreting them. The skill reviews every visible feature, explores possible explanations, checks sample sizes and patterns across estimates, and records unresolved questions in a structured report.

  • Reviewing a figure before publication
  • Investigating unexpected spikes or dips
  • Checking sample sizes across tables
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Turn regression results, summary statistics, and simulation output into tables and figures for academic papers. Apply consistent number formatting, labels, and accessible visual styles, then produce files ready to include in LaTeX documents.

  • Format regression results as LaTeX tables
  • Compare simulation results in a table
  • Plot estimates before and after an intervention
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

review-grant

FreeSummary

Review a grant proposal before submission through six specialized perspectives. Receive a consolidated report covering funder fit, research methods, feasibility, budget, consistency, and writing, with prioritized revisions and questions a review panel might ask.

  • Reviewing a grant proposal before submission
  • Checking alignment with a target funder
  • Finding gaps across methods, budget, and timeline
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

workflows:review

FreeSummary

Review econometric code, proofs, data workflows, and outputs with multiple specialist agents. Assess identification—the assumptions that let data establish an effect—alongside estimation, numerical stability, and reproducibility, then consolidate findings into prioritized tasks.

  • Checking estimation code and standard errors
  • Examining assumptions behind identification arguments
  • Reviewing proofs and derivations before submission
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

submission-guide

FreeSummary

Prepare academic papers for journal submission by checking manuscripts and figures, adapting journal formatting, drafting cover letters and responses to reviewers, and tracking revisions through resubmission with a structured response table.

  • Checking a manuscript before its first journal submission
  • Adapting paper formatting for a specific journal
  • Drafting point-by-point responses to reviewers
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

assess-outline

FreeSummary

Assess a social science paper outline in a .qmd file for missing research questions, contributions, hypotheses, data, and analysis plans. Receive criterion ratings and concrete suggestions in a separate report, with causal assumptions assessed when relevant.

  • Check whether a paper outline covers essential research elements
  • Clarify contributions relative to previous studies
  • Review causal assumptions in a research outline
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

paper-summary

FreeSummary

Turn social science papers into structured Markdown reading notes covering contributions, key findings, methods, data, and limitations. Summaries include quantitative results, references to relevant tables or pages, keywords, and a BibTeX citation for later reference.

  • Creating reading notes from a paper PDF
  • Summarizing a directory of papers
  • Reviewing key estimates and research methods
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026