Skills

Workflow skills

The 15 workflow skills, the command that starts each, and what it produces. Each links to its reference page and to a step-by-step guide.

The list

SkillCommandWhat it does
Research (literature review)/researchIntegrated investigation across the paper, patent, and web tracks
Research — papers/research-paperAcademic-paper track
Research — patents/patentsPatent track
Research — web & industry/research-webWeb & industry track
Quick fact check (search → sourced one-line answer)/factFor a single factual question (who / when / where / how many / which version)
Hypothesis discovery (gaps · contradictions · ranked hypotheses)/hypothesisEvidence-based hypothesis discovery for a research problem
Experiment design/experiment-designFrom a description of the study you want to run, ask a short round of scoping questions, survey how related studies designed their experiments, then produce a structured design report (goal · framework · participants · measures · constraints · the rationale and source behind every design choice) plus a protocol flow diagram, an expected-results chart, a power curve, and a summary of the reference studies' designs.
Data analysis (inspect → plan → analyze → interpret)/analyzeEnd-to-end analysis of an uploaded dataset
Statistics (design → assumptions → method → diagnostics → effects)/statsStatistical method selection and testing for a dataset and hypothesis
Figure (diagram → editable vector figure)/figureDraw a scientific diagram as an editable native vector figure
Illustration (scientific vector illustration)/illustrateGenerate a scientific illustration
Paper writing (claim–evidence mapping → manuscript)/writeTurn this project's validated research state
Scientific review (claims · methods · statistics · evidence · reproducibility)/reviewIndependent scientific and methodological review of a research artifact the user points at
Study workflow (research → design → analysis → proposal)/studyEnd-to-end study pipeline in one turn
Compact conversation/compactSummarize the conversation so far into a compact, faithful summary and continue from it

/research runs the paper, patent and web tracks together; the single-track skills (/research-paper, /patents, /research-web) are available when you want only one.

Guides with screenshots

Each workflow skill has a walkthrough on the blog showing a real session end to end:

What every workflow skill does

Regardless of the task, a workflow skill:

  1. Clarifies what it can't infer (a short survey you can skip).
  2. Plans the work and shows the plan in the progress card.
  3. Executes with tools — searches, the Python kernel, the figure engine — recording code and inputs.
  4. Reviews its own output against the sources and the data and repairs what it can.
  5. Delivers artifacts plus a chat summary that says what was done and what to check.

The effort level sets how much of steps 2–4 happens.