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Find academic papers and read them — searches real scholarly databases for prior work on a topic, then resolves and deep-reads the open-access PDF of any paper you pick. Use this skill WHENEVER the user wants to discover literature or read a study: "find recent papers on X", "what does the research say about Y", "find sources for my thesis on Z", "search for prior work on ...", or "summarise / read / extract the findings from this paper / this arXiv id / this DOI / this PDF". Trigger even when the tool isn't named. Results are real papers from public APIs (OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, Europe PMC) and reading reports use only the actual extracted PDF text — nothing is fabricated.

Simulate a full academic peer-review panel on a draft — examine a manuscript through five independent review lenses (significance, rigor & validity, evidence, argument, clarity), with the methodological criteria adapted to the paper type (CONSORT / STROBE / PRISMA / COREQ / Toulmin), a rebuttal round, a moderator, and a chief editor, then deliver a referee letter plus a scored verdict (Accept / Minor / Major Revision / Reject). Use this skill WHENEVER the user wants critical feedback on their own academic writing: "review my paper / essay / thesis chapter", "give me peer review on this draft", "is this ready to submit?", "what would a reviewer say about my manuscript", "critique my research proposal", or pastes a draft and asks how to improve it. Trigger even when the tool isn't named. Feedback is calibrated to the draft's stage (final / working / sketch / student) so a student essay isn't judged like a journal submission.

Write grounded academic and application documents from a set of source papers, with strict citation discipline — every specific claim traces to a real supplied paper and citations are cross-checked against those papers before delivery, not fabricated. Use this skill WHENEVER the user wants to draft scholarly or application writing from sources: a literature review, theoretical framework, research proposal, introduction, discussion, conclusion, abstract, or academic essay — or a personal statement / statement of purpose (PhD, grad, study-abroad application) or résumé/CV. Trigger on phrasing like "help me write the lit review for ...", "draft the discussion section from these papers", "write my statement of purpose", "turn these sources into a research proposal", even when the tool isn't named. The defining value is citation grounding: no invented authors, years, or findings.

Turn a vague research topic or question into a tree of distinct research directions — each with concrete sub-angles, keywords, and ready-to-run academic search queries — so a researcher who has a topic but doesn't know where to focus gets a map of the field's real, separate lines of work. Use this skill WHENEVER the user has a topic and wants to scope or narrow it: "I want to research X but don't know the angle", "help me find research directions / angles / sub-topics for my thesis on ...", "narrow down this topic", "what are the different ways to approach ...", "give me a research question on ...", "break this topic into directions", or pastes a broad area and asks where to focus. Trigger even when the tool isn't named. Every direction stays anchored to the user's own vocabulary (no drifting into unrelated fields) and ships a search query you can paste straight into a database or the paper-search skill. Pure reasoning — no scripts, no web access.