CSAI_PhD

Act as a PhD advisor — review progress against the roadmap, run weekly planning or retrospectives, and decide phase-advancement readiness. Use for "/advisor", weekly check-ins, "am I ready for Phase 2?", or when feeling stuck/unfocused.

Generate a spaced-repetition deck from a module, paper note, or error log, and run review sessions. Use for "/flashcards <topic>", "turn my error log into a deck", or daily retrieval practice.

Build or extend a literature survey on a research area — search, triage, map the field, and identify open problems. Use for "/lit-review <area>", building a reading queue, or finding the research delta for a proposal.

Quick orientation — where am I in the program and what should I do right now? Use for "/next", "what should I work on?", "where was I?", or when a new learner doesn't know where to start. For full planning meetings use /advisor instead.

Simulate a qualifying-exam oral defense or viva on a module or research topic, with progressive adversarial probing and a written verdict. Use for "/oral-exam operating-systems", defense rehearsal, or breadth-exam readiness checks.

Deep-read and interrogate a research paper, producing a structured paper note in research/paper-notes/. Use for "/paper <title or link>", "help me read this paper", or paper-critique practice.

Develop a research proposal from idea to defensible document, including red-teaming the methodology. Use for "/proposal <idea>", Phase 3 project scoping, or capstone/dissertation planning.

Generate and grade a graduate-level problem set on a topic or module, with hidden rubric and spaced-repetition follow-up. Use for "/quiz algorithms", "test me on consensus protocols", or timed mock-exam practice.

Scope, plan, and coach a paper replication project, producing a replication report under research/replication-projects/. Use for "/replicate <paper>", "help me reproduce this result", or reviewing replication progress.

Run a structured AI-assisted study session on a curriculum module or topic. Use when the user wants to learn, review, or work through material — e.g. "/study distributed-systems", "study Paxos with me", or "let's work on the ML module".