ResearchForge

Document toolkit (.docx). Create/edit documents, tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, text extraction, for professional document processing.

PDF manipulation toolkit. Extract text/tables, create PDFs, merge/split, fill forms, for programmatic document processing and analysis.

Presentation toolkit (.pptx). Create/edit slides, layouts, content, speaker notes, comments, for programmatic presentation creation and modification.

Comprehensive collection of 128+ ready-to-use scientific skills for Claude enabling research across biology, chemistry, medicine, genomics, and advanced analysis domains.

Initialize a ResearchForge project — captures research topic, type (thesis/paper/PFE), target journal or institution, language, deadline, and citation style. Creates the foundational research-context.md artifact that all other skills reference. Use when starting a new research project, PFE, or academic paper. Trigger phrases: "start a new research project", "initialize my thesis", "set up my PFE", "let's begin my paper", "init research", "/rf-init".

Audit citations in a document draft — find orphan in-text citations, uncited references, style violations, and name/year mismatches. 2 modes: full (complete audit report), quick (critical issues only). Gate skill: critical issues block submission-readiness. Triggers: 'check my citations', 'validate my references', 'find missing citations', '/rf-cite-check'.

Load and prepare a long document (PDF, DOCX, Markdown, or plain text) for analysis. Handles documents up to 200+ pages by creating a structured ingest report with table of contents, page count, document type, language, and chunking plan. Must be run before rf-doc-summarize or rf-doc-extract. Trigger phrases: "load this document", "analyze this PDF", "I have a paper to read", "ingest document", "/rf-doc-ingest".

Identify research gaps in the literature and craft the contribution statement that justifies the user's research. 2 modes: full (complete gap taxonomy + positioning + contribution draft), quick (top 3 gaps only). Triggers: 'what are the research gaps', 'where can I contribute', 'justify my research', 'find what's missing', '/rf-lit-gap'.

Build a curated, relevance-scored paper list for a literature review — via keyword search, seed paper expansion, seminal works mapping, or manual list organization. 4 modes: keyword, seed, seminal, manual. Triggers: 'find papers on my topic', 'search for related work', 'build my literature list', 'find references', '/rf-lit-scout'.

Synthesize a body of papers into a coherent literature review narrative. 3 modes: theme (grouped by conceptual theme), chronological (evolution over time), methodology (grouped by research method). Produces a ready-to-paste literature review section with in-text citations in the project's style. Triggers: 'write my literature review', 'synthesize these papers', 'build the related work section', '/rf-lit-synthesize'.

Review a thesis section with the critical eye of an academic supervisor. 4 modes: full (argument + tone + citations + clarity + structure), argument (reasoning quality only), tone (academic register only), supervisor (Socratic dialogue — guided improvement session). Gate skill: blocks submission-readiness until critical issues are resolved. Triggers: 'review this section', 'critique my draft', 'give feedback on chapter N', 'act as my supervisor', '/rf-thesis-review'.

Write or expand a specific chapter or section of a thesis, PFE, or paper. 3 modes: write (draft from scratch), expand (flesh out notes or an outline), translate (convert a section to another language). Each section type (introduction, methodology, results, etc.) has specific writing rules. Triggers: 'write chapter N', 'draft the methodology', 'expand section 2.1', 'write my introduction', '/rf-thesis-section'.

Generate a complete, tailored thesis/PFE structure with chapter outlines, section headers, page budget, and writing order. 4 modes: pfe (Algerian/French engineering), master (research thesis), paper (IMRaD journal/conference), custom (user-guided). Triggers: 'create my thesis structure', 'plan my PFE', 'build my document outline', 'what chapters do I need', '/rf-thesis-structure'.

Full research-to-document pipeline orchestrator. Chains all ResearchForge modules (init → document analysis → literature review → thesis building → citation validation) with user checkpoints at every stage. Three modes: full (any document type), pfe (Algerian/French PFE-optimized with FR/AR support), resume (pick up from a checkpoint). Triggers: 'full pipeline', 'research to thesis', 'end to end workflow', 'pipeline PFE', '/rf-pipeline'.

Show all available ResearchForge skills organized by module, with trigger phrases and recommended workflow order. Use when the user asks what ResearchForge can do, which skill to use next, or types "/rf-help".

Show the current state of the research project — what has been done, what artifacts exist, what's still missing, and recommended next steps. Use when the user wants a progress overview or doesn't know where they left off. Trigger phrases: "where are we", "what have we done", "show project status", "what's next", "/rf-status".

Reformat an existing reference list to a different or corrected citation style (APA, IEEE, Chicago, Vancouver, Harvard). Also cleans up inconsistently formatted references. Accepts a pasted reference list or reads from the project's references file. Trigger phrases: "reformat my references", "convert citations to APA", "fix my reference list", "change citation style to IEEE", "/rf-cite-format".

Generate properly formatted citations from a DOI, URL, paper title, or manual details. Supports APA 7th, IEEE, Chicago, Vancouver, and Harvard. Adds to a running reference list artifact. Trigger phrases: "generate a citation for this", "cite this paper", "add this to my references", "format this reference", "/rf-cite-generate".

Extract specific content from a document — key concepts and definitions, data tables, figures descriptions, methodology details, named entities (authors, institutions, tools), or a specific section. Targeted extraction for when you need particular content rather than a full summary. Trigger phrases: "extract the data tables", "pull out the methodology", "find all definitions", "get the key concepts", "extract figures", "/rf-doc-extract".

Generate a structured academic summary of a document — executive summary, section-by-section breakdown, key arguments, methodology, findings, limitations, and relevance to the user's research. Works on chunks for 200+ page documents. Trigger phrases: "summarize this document", "give me the key points", "what does this paper say", "summarize my document", "/rf-doc-summarize".