What problem does it solve?
Writing well-grounded, citation-backed long-form articles requires coordinated research, outlining, drafting, and polishing; this Skill encodes the Stanford STORM methodology as a resumable, stage-gated pipeline so every /storm:* skill produces verifiable articles instead of hallucinated content.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Two-Stage Pipeline: Runs research (persona discovery, simulated Q&A, source collection) then writing (outline refinement, per-section drafting, polish) with resumable phase artifacts.
- Citation Hygiene: Enforces inline [n] citations mapped to a deduplicated sources.json, strips nested citations, and flags unsupported sections instead of fabricating references.
- MCP-First Retrieval: Prefers connected MCP search tools (exa-mcp-server variants) and falls back to WebSearch/WebFetch, with optional local document ingestion via --docs.
- Use Case: Ask Claude to generate a researched article on a technical topic; the engine discovers personas, simulates expert interviews, builds a sourced outline, and writes a polished article with a verified References section.
Quick Start
Ask Claude to run the storm research phase on your topic, for example: generate a STORM article about retrieval-augmented generation and save it to my docs folder.