universal-ml-intern

Alternative paper search backends — OpenAlex (~250M works, no auth, strong PDF extraction) and CORE (~49M full-text, BODY search). Use when hf-papers can't find a paper, when Semantic Scholar is rate-limited, when you need PDFs of older/long-tail papers, or when you need to search the actual body text of papers (not just titles/abstracts).

Discover GitHub repositories, find example scripts within them, and read source files with line-range support and automatic Jupyter notebook conversion. Use BEFORE writing any ML training, fine-tuning, or inference code — your knowledge of library APIs is outdated and example scripts show the current patterns.

Inspect a HuggingFace dataset in one call — status, configs/splits, schema, sample rows, parquet file listing, and detailed messages-column analysis (roles, keys, tool-calls). REQUIRED before submitting any training job to verify column format matches the training method.

Explore and fetch HuggingFace library documentation (transformers, trl, datasets, peft, accelerate, trackio, vllm, optimum, courses, etc.). Use when you need current trainer arguments, config parameters, or API reference that your internal knowledge may have wrong.

Submit and manage HuggingFace compute jobs — run training / fine-tuning / inference / batch work on HF cloud infrastructure in Python or Docker mode. Supports one-shot and recurring (cron-style) jobs.

Discover ML research papers, read their contents by section, trace citations, find linked datasets/models — combining HuggingFace Papers, arXiv, and Semantic Scholar. Use whenever you need to research a method, find training recipes with published results, crawl a citation graph, or locate the datasets a paper used. This is your starting point for any literature-first workflow.

File and git-like operations on HuggingFace repositories (model / dataset / space). Covers list / read / upload / delete of files, branches, tags, pull requests, and repo management (create / update). Use to inspect repos, ship artifacts, and propose changes via PRs.

The autonomous ML-research loop protocol. Use when driving a `program.md`-defined experiment session — this skill defines the LOOP FOREVER shape, pre-flight checks, keep/discard discipline, when to search papers, and when to spawn a research sub-agent. Pair this skill with the `/loop` harness command (or equivalent) for autonomous operation.

Spawn a research sub-agent with its own context window to do deep literature crawls and return a concise, recipe-ranked summary — keeping the main conversation context clean. Use whenever the research phase would produce too much raw tool output to keep in-context (paper reads, long citation chains, doc-reading marathons).