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Deep Research — Universal Academic Research Agent Team · brycewang-stanford | DecimalAI

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Deep Research — Universal Academic Research Agent Team

brycewang-stanford/deep-research

Source brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills ↗License NOASSERTION

Universal deep research agent team. 13-agent pipeline for rigorous academic research on any topic. 7 modes: full research, quick brief, paper review, lit-review, fact-check, Socratic guided research dialogue, and systematic review with optional meta-analysis. Covers research question formulation, Socratic mentoring, methodology design, systematic literature search, source verification, cross-source synthesis, risk of bias assessment, meta-analysis, APA 7.0 report compilation, editorial review, d

SkillScore72Maintained

Automatic

Research pack

Last verified 8/7/2026

What it changes

Passed 18 of 25 test cases with the skill, and 6 of 25 without it.

Without skill24%

With skill72%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Specifies a minimum of 5 sources for quick brief mode.
Caps research pipeline revision loops at a maximum of 2 iterations.
Specifies a minimum of 25 sources for standalone literature review mode.

and 17 more in the full report

12 fixed6 passed either way7 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +48 pp
Tokens: +286%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: +3%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/7/2026v118 of 25 cases passed with skill

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/brycewang-stanford-deep-research/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/brycewang-stanford-deep-research/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add brycewang-stanford-deep-research, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/brycewang-stanford-deep-research/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add brycewang-stanford-deep-research

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/brycewang-stanford-deep-research/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/brycewang-stanford-deep-research/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/brycewang-stanford-deep-research/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/brycewang-stanford-deep-research.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 12 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 12

Prompt

If the Editor-in-Chief and Devil's Advocate identify remaining argument weaknesses during review, how many revision iterations are permitted before finalizing the report?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Caps research pipeline revision loops at a maximum of 2 iterations.	Missed	Passed
Directs unresolved issues to be moved to an explicit Acknowledged Limitations section.	Missed	Passed

case-21 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/7/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md613 lines21 files

Deep Research — Universal Academic Research Agent Team

Universal deep research tool — a domain-agnostic 13-agent team for rigorous academic research on any topic.

v2.4 adds writing quality improvements to the report compiler:

Style Profile consumption (optional) — If a Style Profile is available from academic-paper intake, the report compiler applies it as a soft guide for the Executive Summary and Synthesis sections. Discipline conventions and report objectivity take priority.
Writing Quality Check — The report compiler runs a writing quality checklist before finalizing: flags AI-typical overused terms, checks sentence/paragraph length variation, removes throat-clearing openers. See academic-paper/references/writing_quality_check.md.

Quick Start

Minimal command:

Research the impact of AI on higher education quality assurance

Socratic mode:

Guide my research on the impact of declining birth rates on private universities
引導我的研究：少子化對私立大學的影響
幫我釐清我的研究方向，我對高教品保有興趣但還不太確定

Execution:

Scoping — Research question + methodology blueprint
Investigation — Systematic literature search + source verification
Analysis — Cross-source synthesis + bias check
Composition — Full APA 7.0 report
Review — Editorial + ethics + vulnerability scan
Revision — Final polished report

Trigger Conditions

Trigger Keywords

English: research, deep research, literature review, systematic review, meta-analysis, PRISMA, evidence synthesis, fact-check, methodology, APA report, academic analysis, policy analysis, guide my research, help me think through, monitor this topic, set up alerts

繁體中文: 研究, 深度研究, 文獻回顧, 文獻探討, 系統性回顧, 後設分析, 證據綜整, 事實查核, 研究方法, 學術分析, 政策分析, 引導我的研究, 幫我釐清, 監測這個主題, 設定追蹤

Track record

Benchmark

18 / 25

test cases passed, vs 6 / 25 without

Adoption

Users: 2
Times used: 42

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/2/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

brycewang-stanford / Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

skills/24-Imbad0202-academic-research-skills/deep-research/SKILL.md

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License NOASSERTIONImported 8/2/2026Version v1Bundled 20 files

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