academic-research

Generates academic-grade research reports with multi-agent crews, peer-reviewed sources, and annotated bibliographies.

4|Updated Apr 17, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/hint-shu/deep-research --skill academic-research-hint-shu
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: academic-research
Source: https://github.com/hint-shu/deep-research/tree/main/skills/academic-research
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/hint-shu/deep-research --skill academic-research-hint-shu

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Standard web research produces shallow summaries with no academic grounding, no audit trail, and no way to trace claims back to peer-reviewed literature. This Skill runs a full academic-grade investigation that grounds conclusions in arXiv, Google Scholar, and other scholarly sources. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Multi-Agent Research Crew: Dispatches a Planner, two parallel Researchers, a Critic, and an Editor to plan, gather, adversarially review, and synthesize findings. - Academic Source Harvesting: Searches arXiv, Google Scholar, and SSRN (optionally via Exa's research-paper category), with cross-language coverage in English and Russian. - Structured Academic Output: Produces a 5000+ word report with abstract, timeline, methodology section, open questions, and an A/B/C/D quality-rated bibliography, exportable to PDF via pandoc. - Use Case: Ask for an academic review of how LLM router agents work, and receive a research-grade report citing 80-120 sources including 15-25 peer-reviewed papers, with contradictions and open research questions flagged. ## Quick Start Run the academic-research skill on the topic "how do LLM router agents work" to produce a full academic report with bibliography and timeline.

Frequently Asked Questions about academic-research

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I run an academic-grade research investigation with AI agents?▼

Invoke the academic-research skill with your topic. It first runs the lower research tiers, then spawns a crew of Planner, two parallel Researchers, a Critic, and an Editor to harvest academic sources and synthesize a 5000+ word report.

What academic sources does this research workflow search?▼

It targets arXiv, Google Scholar, SSRN, and research.google, plus cross-language sources like cyberleninka.ru and elibrary.ru. If the Exa MCP is installed, its research-paper category becomes the primary academic discovery channel.

How long does academic research take and how many sources does it use?▼

A full run takes about 40 minutes and gathers 80-120 sources, including 15-25 academic papers. It consumes roughly 400 Tavily search credits across the layered pipeline.

Does the academic research skill work without Exa or Codex installed?▼

Yes, both are optional. Without Exa it falls back to Tavily plus manual arXiv scraping via Firecrawl, and without Codex the crew runs with two researchers instead of three.

What output artifacts does the academic research report include?▼

It produces a 5000+ word report with abstract and methodology, a chronological timeline, an open-questions document, an A/B/C/D quality-rated annotated bibliography, and a PDF export via pandoc, all stored under .firecrawl/research/<slug>/L4/.

When should I use ultra-research instead of academic-research?▼

Use ultra-research (L5) when you need a full knowledge vault with playbooks and memory sync beyond a single report. Academic-research (L4) is the right tier for research-grade investigations and scientific overviews.