Research Agent Skills for Zed

Search, download, and summarize academic papers from arXiv.

Communications-domain literature review with Claude-style knowledge-base-first retrieval.

Use when the user asks to search for papers, review literature, find references on a topic, verify a paper exists, or build a bibliography.

Generate publication-quality figures and tables from experiment results.

Use when drafting, rewriting, reviewing, or auditing prose for any section of an empirical academic paper (Abstract, Introduction…

Systematic review response workflow from comment analysis to professional rebuttal writing.

CSS — annual Clery Act crime/fire safety for Title IV institutions.

Challenge research design decisions, assumptions, and methodology choices with specific critical questions.

Drafts academic prose for a manuscript section from bullet points or an outline.

Interpretation guidance for Urban Institute Portal datasets.

Conduct participant observation, fieldwork, immersion, and thick description documentation in diverse cultural settings

Audit manuscript and replication package against FAIR open-science principles.

Design and format publication-quality figures: chart choice, color, scales, legends, captions, reproducibility.

Defamiliarization audit for empirical output.

Organize messy conference LaTeX template .zip files into clean Overleaf-ready structure.

Reads the manuscript and notebooks to generate a structured abstract.

Humanization Quality Verifier - Ensures transformation integrity and quality Validates that humanization preserves meaning, citations, and…

Screening Assistant - AI-PRISMA 6-dimension screening with Groq LLM (100x cheaper) Supports two project types with different confidence…

Deterministic search across arXiv, PubMed/PMC, and US policy corpora with daily freshness cutoffs.

This skill covers academic journal submission, referee responses, and revision management.

Searches and discovers academic papers across multiple sources (Semantic Scholar, arXiv, Tavily, Exa, AMiner, Google Scholar) with…