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Research Proposal Generator · leonchaox | DecimalAI

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Research Proposal Generator

leonchaox/research-proposal

Source leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills ↗License MIT

Generate academic research proposals for PhD applications.

SkillScore82Maintained

Automatic

Research pack

Last verified 8/15/2026

What it changes

Passed 18 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 7 of 22 without it.

Without skill32%

With skill82%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Excludes appendix sections from the proposal structure.
Recommends a paragraph length between 4 and 8 sentences.
States the default target word count as approximately 3,000 words.

and 13 more in the full report

11 fixed7 passed either way4 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +50 pp
Tokens: +154%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -18%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v118 of 22 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/leonchaox-research-proposal/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/leonchaox-research-proposal/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add leonchaox-research-proposal, 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/leonchaox-research-proposal/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add leonchaox-research-proposal

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

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/leonchaox-research-proposal/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/leonchaox-research-proposal/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/leonchaox-research-proposal/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/leonchaox-research-proposal.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 11 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 11

Prompt

I am finalizing my PhD research proposal on wearable biosensors for continuous lactate monitoring (topic slug: `wearable-lactate-monitoring`). What exact file naming pattern should be used when delivering the Markdown document file?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Formats the output filename following the pattern proposal_topic-slug_date.md.	Missed	Passed

case-16 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/15/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md541 lines8 files

Research Proposal Generator

Generate high-quality academic research proposals for PhD applications following Nature Reviews-style academic writing conventions.

Overview

This skill guides the generation of research proposals through a structured 5-phase workflow:

Requirements Gathering - Collect research topic, domain, language preferences
Literature Collection - Gather relevant literature from multiple sources
Outline Generation - Create structured outline for user approval
Content Writing - Generate full proposal based on approved outline
Output & Review - Deliver Markdown file with quality checklist

Target Output: 2,000-4,000 words (default ~3,000 words) for PhD applications.

Phase 1: Requirements Gathering

Use AskUserQuestion to collect the following information:

Required Information

Research Topic/Direction
- What is the core research question or area?
- Any specific problems to address?
Academic Domain
- STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
- Humanities (History, Philosophy, Literature, Languages)
- Social Sciences (Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Political Science)
Output Language
- English
- 中文 (Chinese)
Target Word Count
- Default: 3,000 words
- Range: 2,000-4,000 words (humanities may extend to 10,000)

Track record

Benchmark

18 / 22

test cases passed, vs 7 / 22 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

View 15 scanner checks

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

leonchaox / qinyan-academic-skills

skills/02-%E7%A7%91%E5%AD%A6%E5%86%99%E4%BD%9C%E4%B8%8E%E5%AD%A6%E6%9C%AF%E4%BA%A4%E6%B5%81/research-proposal/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License MITImported 8/3/2026Version v1Bundled 7 files

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brycewang-stanford/research-proposalGenerate academic research proposals for PhD applications. Use when user asks to "write a research proposal", "create PhD proposal", "generate research plan", "撰写研究计划", "写博士申请", "doctoral proposal", or mentions specific research topics for PhD application. Supports STEM, humanities, and social sciences with field-specific adaptations. Follows Nature Reviews-style academic writing conventions. Supports both English and Chinese output based on user preference.Near-identical description+27 pp pass-rate lift

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Research Proposal Generator

Overview

Phase 1: Requirements Gathering

Required Information

Track record

Benchmark

Adoption

SkillSafety

Source

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