Research Agent Skills for Zed

VS-Enhanced Qualitative Design Consultant with Ethnography & Action Research Enhanced VS 3-Phase process: Avoids overused phenomenology…

Run replication, robustness, and specification-sensitivity workflows for Stata projects.

Use when starting empirical analysis, creating a data pipeline, generating results, or when data or model specifications change.

This skill covers reproducible research pipelines and replication packages.

Strategic research companion — brainstorm, evaluate, and decide on research directions.

Generate and rank research ideas given a broad direction.

Divergent research ideation — generate many candidate directions, then adversarially filter to the strongest

Scaffold a new research project with full reproducibility infrastructure in R and/or Python.

Structured conversational interview to formalise a research idea or extension into a concrete specification with hypotheses and empirical…

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

Turn a vague research direction into a problem-anchored, elegant, frontier-aware, implementation-oriented method plan via iterative…

Structure point-by-point referee responses for the sewage-house-prices paper.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "write an experiment report", "summarize experimental results", "do experiment…

All quality reviews — routes to appropriate critics based on target file type and flags.

Run multi-agent econometric review on estimation code, identification arguments, and research artifacts

Simulated peer review of the sewage-house-prices manuscript.

R&R cycle — classify referee comments and route to appropriate agents.

Use when a main specification has produced a result, when preparing a paper appendix, when a reviewer requests robustness, or before…

SAIPE — annual Census poverty estimates for school districts (Portal; county/state not in Portal).

Evaluate research rigor. Assess methodology, experimental design, statistical validity, biases, confounding, evidence quality (GRADE…

This skill should be used when scientists need help with research problem selection, project ideation, troubleshooting stuck projects, or…