Compile and improve existing English or Chinese academic papers written in Typst. Check references, formatting, prose, argument flow, abstracts, tables, and pseudocode, with source-level review comments and support for adapting papers to another publication venue.
- Diagnosing Typst compilation and export errors
- Validating BibTeX or Hayagriva references
- Reviewing abstracts and the logic of paper sections
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Turn papers stored in Zotero into detailed Obsidian reading notes, linking claims, methods, evidence, and limitations to a project. Synthesize findings across papers, track note coverage for entire collections, and build a visual literature map.
- Creating detailed Obsidian notes from Zotero papers
- Comparing methods and identifying research gaps across papers
- Checking note coverage for a whole Zotero collection
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Save code changes on a new Git branch, select files to commit, and push them to the remote repository. Prepare a descriptive commit message and optionally create a pull request with a summary and test plan.
- Saving changes on a new branch
- Writing a commit message that explains the reason for a change
- Pushing changes and creating a pull request
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Research industrial AI topics such as predictive maintenance and anomaly detection. Compare papers by methods and publication venues, distinguish preprints from reviewed work, identify conflicting findings and research gaps, or build an evidence-based survey draft.
- Researching recent predictive maintenance literature
- Comparing industrial anomaly detection methods and evaluations
- Identifying research gaps in manufacturing AI
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Test local web applications with Playwright, a browser automation tool. Write Python scripts to check interface behavior, inspect rendered pages, capture screenshots, and collect browser logs, with a helper that manages one or more application servers.
- Checking buttons, links, and form behavior
- Investigating interface issues with screenshots and logs
- Automating checks for local static HTML
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Write and review R analysis scripts for a sewage research project using its established conventions. Estimate requested regression models, add specifications, and save LaTeX tables, figures, and model objects for use in the research paper.
- Estimate models of sewage spills and property prices
- Add specifications to an existing regression analysis
- Create descriptive plots and maps
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Guides you through connecting external services to Claude Code plugins using MCP, a protocol for exposing services as tools. Covers connection types, configuration files, authentication, tool permissions, and testing.
- Connecting a database to a Claude Code plugin
- Configuring OAuth or token authentication
- Building workflows across multiple MCP servers
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Organize experiment goals, settings, metrics, and progress in existing Obsidian notes. Keep temporary logs in daily notes, promote stable findings into result notes, and connect evidence with interpretation and decisions about the next step.
- Record experiment plans and training progress
- Organize baseline and ablation comparisons
- Preserve stable findings with supporting evidence
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Set up an Obsidian knowledge base for a research repository containing code and Markdown. It creates project links, planning notes, source inventories, and code summaries, importing structure and summaries while leaving large research artifacts out.
- Starting a research project's knowledge base
- Bringing a code and Markdown project into Obsidian
- Creating project plans and source inventories
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Create and organize Claude Code plugins with guidance on configuration files, commands, agents, skills, hooks, and MCP servers. Learn where components belong, how automatic loading works, and how to reference files across different installation locations.
- Create the directory structure for a new plugin
- Organize commands, agents, skills, and hooks
- Make file references work across installation locations
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Repair navigation between existing Obsidian project notes by improving meaningful links among papers, experiments, results, and writing. Keep references connected to the main note for each subject while avoiding unnecessary extra notes and excessive linking.
- Repairing links between existing project notes
- Connecting paper notes with experiments and results
- Finding the best existing note for a new reference
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Develop a research idea through a structured conversation, then turn the answers into a written research specification. Clarify the question, testable hypothesis, data needs, methods for assessing cause and effect, expected findings, and feasibility.
- Turning an early research idea into a concrete plan
- Exploring a new research direction from scratch
- Identifying data needs and threats to causal interpretation
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Create and edit Obsidian Markdown notes with links between notes, embedded images and PDFs, highlighted callout boxes, tags, and properties. Use Obsidian-specific formatting to connect related material and organize information within notes.
- Connect related notes and specific sections with internal links
- Embed notes, images, and PDF pages
- Highlight warnings and key points with callout boxes
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Manage the lifecycle of an Obsidian project knowledge base by stopping sync, archiving content, or permanently deleting it on explicit request. It also handles individual note archiving, deletion, and renaming with link repair, then summarizes the resulting state.
- Stopping project sync while keeping notes
- Moving a finished project's knowledge into Archive/
- Permanently deleting explicitly selected project knowledge
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Turn reviewer comments into a structured response document. The skill classifies concerns, suggests whether to revise, defend, clarify, or experiment, and drafts evidence-based replies while checking completeness, professional tone, and respectful wording.
- Classifying reviewer comments by issue type
- Planning revisions and additional experiments
- Drafting responses to every reviewer comment
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Organize complex tasks using persistent Markdown files for plans, research notes, and final deliverables. Track completed phases, decisions, and errors, and revisit the plan before major actions to keep work aligned with its goal.
- Planning a task with multiple stages
- Organizing research findings and sources
- Recording progress, decisions, and errors
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Turn a research interest into a defined question and practical plan. Use structured brainstorming, literature review, gap analysis, and method comparison to produce a research proposal, organized review, and references, with Zotero support for paper management.
- Develop a research topic using 5W1H
- Organize literature and identify unanswered questions
- Compare research methods and required resources
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Set up Python projects and manage packages, isolated environments, and Python versions with uv. Includes migration guidance and lockfiles that record dependency versions, plus workflows for consistent installations in CI and Docker.
- Setting up a new Python project
- Migrating from pip or Poetry to uv
- Keeping dependency versions consistent across environments
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Combine Obsidian notes into literature reviews, comparisons, and project summaries. Keep each synthesis linked to its supporting papers, experiments, results, and research questions, with one lasting note for each purpose.
- Combine paper notes into a literature review
- Compare findings across experiments
- Summarize a project's progress and results
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Develop a broad research interest into evaluated project options. Specialized agents generate ideas, assess feasibility and competition, and draft abstracts and conclusions, helping researchers decide what to pursue, postpone, or drop and which assumption to test first.
- Turn a broad research interest into project ideas
- Compare the novelty and feasibility of research proposals
- Check competing work before choosing a direction
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Design or review how a sewage spill study estimates effects on house prices. Produce a strategy memo covering the target effect, assumptions, estimating equation, implementation outline, robustness checks, falsification tests, and anticipated referee objections.
- Planning how to estimate sewage spill effects on house prices
- Reviewing assumptions behind an existing analysis
- Designing robustness checks and falsification tests
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Check existing Chinese LaTeX theses for build errors, bibliography formatting, chapter structure, terminology, and logical flow. Get targeted findings and revision suggestions while preserving citations, labels, and mathematical content.
- Diagnosing thesis compilation failures
- Checking references against GB/T 7714
- Reviewing chapter structure and terminology
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Create and edit Obsidian Bases files to organize notes into tables, cards, lists, or maps. Configure filters, calculated properties, grouping, and summaries to build task trackers, reading lists, and indexes of daily notes.
- Building a task table with due dates and progress
- Organizing books and articles into a reading list
- Creating an index of daily notes
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Review academic drafts for 24 common AI writing patterns and revise awkward wording or repetitive structures. Preserve meaning, economics terminology, citations, and LaTeX commands, with a report showing the changes and their locations.
- Polishing an academic draft before submission
- Varying repetitive transitions and paragraph structures
- Editing economics papers while preserving terms and citations
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026