Tools

Skill suite for the whole academic research workflow: deep research (including PRISMA systematic reviews), paper writing, multi-perspective peer review and revision, pausing for human approval at each stage, with citation and integrity checks. CC BY-NC, non-commercial only.

Drafts, revises and reviews research manuscripts, tying every fact and number to verified evidence and covering reporting guidelines, authorship, AI disclosure and confidentiality; explicitly forbids fabricated citations or data. Includes offline check scripts; no API key needed.

From Obsidian CEO Steph Ango (kepano): teaches agents to write Obsidian-flavored Markdown, Bases and Canvas files and work with vaults through the Obsidian CLI, plus skills like web page content extraction. Also installable into Codex and other agents via npx skills.

Turns common prompts such as summarizing, extracting insights and rewriting into reusable patterns you pipe text, web pages or YouTube transcripts through, using many model providers or local Ollama. Can also run as a REST API. Run fabric --setup first to configure models.

Translation skill by Baoyu with quick, normal and refined modes, custom glossaries, and target audience and style settings. Translates local files or URLs; suited to long-form Chinese-English translation and localization. Needs bun or npx.

Automattic's offline English grammar checker: checks spelling, grammar and word choice locally in milliseconds without sending your text anywhere. Homebrew installs harper-cli for batch-checking files (still experimental) and harper-ls for editors. English only.

Twelve research skills from Prof. Yuyu Luo's team at HKUST (Guangzhou), built on a decade of top-venue publishing and reviewing: idea evaluation, intro and body writing, polishing, surveys, pre-submission review, figures, Draw.io rebuilds and rebuttals. Non-commercial license.

Turns Peng Sida's public research-writing notes into a skill: revises abstracts, introductions, methods and experiments of ML/CV/NLP papers from a reviewer's view, checks that each claim has experimental evidence, and runs a pre-submission self-check. Pure methodology, no API key.

Open-source alternative to NotebookLM's podcast feature: turns web pages, PDFs, images, YouTube videos or text into two-host conversational audio, useful for lecture notes or articles. Uses Gemini and OpenAI API keys by default, or local models plus free Edge TTS.

English prose linter that turns usage guides such as Garner's and advice from great writers into rules, flagging clichés, redundancy, bad comparisons and usage errors line by line, with JSON output for agents. Runs locally with Python; English only.

Uses Obsidian's community Local REST API plugin so agents can list, read, search, append to and delete notes, and insert content at a heading, block reference or frontmatter field. Install that plugin and configure its API key first.

Visualization skills for Obsidian that turn text into Excalidraw hand-drawn diagrams, Mermaid charts and Obsidian Canvas mind maps. Marked experimental by the author; the Excalidraw skill needs the matching Obsidian plugin.

Thesis workflow for undergrad and grad students: Q&A to settle topic and outline, then chapter drafting, literature reviews, pre-submission self-review and AI-tone polishing, with modules for law, medicine and social sciences. Outputs Markdown or compilable LaTeX; won't fabricate citations.

Fixes defensive academic writing full of hedging and preemptive disclaimers, organizing abstract, introduction, experiments and conclusion around your strongest contribution. Also helps trim length and self-check before a rebuttal. English and Chinese versions, plus a prompt for any AI chat.

Lets agents read and write your local Obsidian vault directly: search notes, append to daily notes, tidy tags and properties, and summarize reading or research notes by topic. No need to open Obsidian or install plugins; access is limited to the vault and can be read-only. Needs Node.js 20+.

Reads and writes Obsidian vaults from the terminal: search, view, create, edit, move and delete notes, and manage frontmatter and daily notes, without Obsidian running. Good for agents maintaining a personal knowledge base. Formerly Obsidian CLI.

Two-stage paper skills: planning studies the style of your target preprint server (e.g. PhilArchive, arXiv), finds gaps in the literature and scores a seven-dimension mock review; writing drafts and checks each chapter from the outline. Suits philosophy and interdisciplinary work; needs Python 3.

Submission skill packs tailored to 700+ journals and conferences, from AER, Nature and NEJM to top CS venues and leading Chinese journals, to revise papers to each venue's scope, style and requirements. Add its Claude Code marketplace per the README, then install packs per journal.

Pre-submission review for CS conference papers (CVPR, ACL, NeurIPS and more): polish, translate or condense on request, or let AI reviewers raise issues and a jury rule on them. Only wording fixes are drafted, with your approval; missing experiments go back to you, never invented. Needs Node.js.

Checks spelling, grammar and formatting in LaTeX and Markdown sources (e.g. figures never referenced), mapping each issue back to the source line, with optional HTML reports. Grammar checks use LanguageTool and support English, German, French and more; Homebrew on macOS bundles Java.

Translates articles between Chinese and English or Chinese and Japanese (not English-Japanese) in four steps: analysis, draft, review and final, with options for target audience, style and glossary, aiming for natural-sounding output. No account or API key; URLs are fetched via r.jina.ai.

Rewrites a paper for a target journal: give it 5-8 papers from that journal (plus optional field or lab examples), it builds an editable style guide for your manuscript, then rewrites section by section to the journal's conventions with a change log. PDF input needs a converter such as MinerU.

21 English writing rules (12 from The Elements of Style, Orwell, Pinker and other classics, 9 from observed LLM habits) for clearer, leaner papers, grant proposals, design docs and documentation. Expository English only; not for fiction or marketing copy.

Two skills for before and after peer review: review-revision checks a manuscript as a senior reviewer would and plans section-by-section revisions; rebuttal-response triages reviewer comments, plans extra evidence and drafts point-by-point replies. Takes PDF, LaTeX, Word or Markdown.