Deep Research

This is a 13-agent research pipeline that takes you from a vague topic to a full APA 7.0 report with citations, methodology, and bias assessment. It's built for serious academic work, not quick summaries. The Socratic mode is the standout feature: it walks you through formulating your research question across five layers of guided questioning, which is genuinely useful when you know you want to research something but can't articulate what yet. Once you have a clear question, the full mode runs systematic literature search, cross-source synthesis, risk of bias checks, and optional meta-analysis. It also includes post-research monitoring for retractions and new contradictory findings. Overkill for casual research, appropriate for thesis work or policy analysis.

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$ npx -y skills add imbad0202/academic-research-skills --skill deep-research --agent claude-code

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Deep Research — Universal Academic Research Agent Team

Universal deep research tool — a domain-agnostic 13-agent team for rigorous academic research on any topic.

v2.4 adds writing quality improvements to the report compiler:

Style Profile consumption (optional) — If a Style Profile is available from academic-paper intake, the report compiler applies it as a soft guide for the Executive Summary and Synthesis sections. Discipline conventions and report objectivity take priority.
Writing Quality Check — The report compiler uses academic-paper/references/writing_quality_check.md as a diagnostic guide before finalizing (prompts for judgment subordinate to author and venue requirements, not quotas), and flags claims the cited sources do not support as [MATERIAL GAP] rather than hedging them (#825).

Routing discipline (v3.9.2): plugin and skills-copy installs do not load this repository's .claude/CLAUDE.md, so its routing core is repeated below, identical to shared/references/routing_core.md (#892). If routing has not settled when this skill loads, apply the core before dispatching any agent.

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