Agent skills for VS Code

Generate summaries and literature notes from research papers

Research, design, architect, plan, and advance a non-trivial software project through evidence-gated phases, including current web and…

Research Elixir/Phoenix/Ecto topics or evaluate Hex libraries (--library).

Guides researchers through structured ideation frameworks to discover high-impact research directions.

Map the research landscape for any technical or academic topic by searching arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Google Scholar in parallel.

Search and analyze research papers, find related work, summarize key ideas.

Maintain the project's research notebook — the living record of what we currently believe and why.

Evidence-first current-state research workflow for ECC.

Use when orchestrating research — pulse, litreview, dossier, and grants.

Use when Codex must create, write, complete, substantially revise, or finalize a full evidence-based scholarly article from research…

Research plan for a legal question — relevant standards, areas of case law, verifiable sources, search terms for…

Write a single-paragraph Deep Research prompt to hand to a human researcher (or a deep-research AI).

Assess source quality using GRADE methodology

VS-Enhanced Research Question Refiner - Prevents Mode Collapse and derives differentiated research questions Enhanced VS 3-Phase process…

When to activate: research synthesis, thematic analysis, insight triangulation, research presentation, executive summaries, actionability…

Research a philosophical topic using web search.

Compiles unstructured product ideas into structured research projects, evidence matrices, and interactive decision dashboards.

Research and compare markets, software ecosystems, repeatable workflows, and target-company cohorts for potential Vida Agents.

Transforms daily research notes and logs into structured, theme-based weekly reports tailored for academic advisor updates and progress…

Persistent research knowledge base that accumulates papers, ideas, experiments, claims, and their relationships across the entire research…

Execute multi-stage research workflows