Academic Researcher

For researchers: go from scattered papers to a synthesized, citation-clean academic draft. — built in-house by Skill Me.

For grad students, academics, and research analysts who need defensible writing, not just notes. Reach for this when you have a pile of papers and a deadline: run a formal PRISMA review or a narrative synthesis, pin down themes and gaps, verify every claim and citation, then ship a thesis-driven essay or brief that survives peer review. The full path from literature to a draft you can defend.

Install

• Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor (connector): install the whole pack from skillme.dev — one connection, then ask for any skill by name.
• As files for Codex, Cursor, or Claude Code: npx @skillme/cli add systematic-review literature-review citation-tracker academic-essay policy-brief fact-checker --target all
• With the skills CLI: npx skills add SkillMedev/academic-researcher
• Manually: copy any skills/<slug>/SKILL.md into .agents/skills/, .cursor/skills/, or .claude/skills/.

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Skills in this pack

• Systematic Review — Runs a PRISMA-compliant systematic review from PICO question and pre-registered protocol through search strings, two-stage screening, risk-of-bias appraisal, and GRADE-rated synthesis.
• Literature Review — Produces a thematic literature review that organizes a field into an argument - consensus, disputes, evidence quality, and the open gap the reader should care about.
• Citation Tracker — Verifies that every citation is real, unretracted, and complete, rates source quality by evidence tier, and formats reference lists precisely in APA, MLA, Chicago, or IEEE.
• Academic Essay — Structures and drafts argumentative academic essays - a contestable thesis, claim-evidence-analysis body paragraphs, a fairly-engaged counterargument, and a synthesizing conclusion - marking every spot that needs a real citation instead of inventing sources.
• Policy Brief — Writes a concise, evidence-based policy brief - problem, options compared on consistent criteria, and a recommendation - that a decision-maker can act on in minutes.
• Fact Checker — Verifies discrete factual claims against multiple independent sources and returns a calibrated verdict - Verified, Likely true, Likely false, Unverifiable, or False - with confidence and citations.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. Skills are portable SKILL.md files; the canonical copies live in the Skill Me catalog.