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Formulates structured, testable hypotheses from experimental observations using a scientific-method framework — derives predictions, proposes mechanisms, and designs experiments to test them, then renders a LaTeX report. Use when turning observations or data into falsifiable, mechanistic hypotheses, competing-explanation sets, testable predictions, or experimental designs. For a standalone systematic literature review or evidence synthesis (not a means to hypotheses) use alterlab-literature-review; for open-ended brainstorming before any specific observation use alterlab-scientific-brainstorm; to evaluate an existing manuscript use alterlab-peer-review. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
Generates comprehensive market research reports (50+ pages) in the style of top consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Gartner), with professional LaTeX formatting, extensive visuals via scientific-schematics and generate-image, data gathering through research-lookup, and multi-framework strategic analysis (Porter Five Forces, PESTLE, SWOT, TAM/SAM/SOM, BCG Matrix). Use when producing a market analysis, competitive landscape, industry report, market-sizing study, or consulting-style strategic deliverable. NOT for a single focused, source-cited research question with no report/frameworks (use alterlab-deep-research) or for pulling raw financial data points from an API (use alterlab-alpha-vantage). Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
Converts files and Office documents to clean, LLM-friendly Markdown with Microsoft MarkItDown (markitdown CLI, Python API, and markitdown-mcp server), supporting PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX/XLS, images (EXIF metadata, LLM descriptions), audio (transcription), HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP archives, EPUB e-books, Outlook MSG, Jupyter notebooks, and YouTube transcript URLs, with OCR through the markitdown-ocr plugin or Azure Document Intelligence. Use when converting a document, PDF, slide deck, spreadsheet, scanned image, audio file, web page, or e-book into Markdown text for ingestion or LLM processing, extracting text from scans via OCR, transcribing audio, or batch-converting mixed file formats to token-efficient Markdown. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
Runs and scripts Open Notebook, a self-hosted open-source alternative to Google NotebookLM with a full REST API, for AI-powered research and document analysis. Use when organizing research materials into notebooks, ingesting diverse content sources (PDFs, videos, audio, web pages, Office documents), generating AI-powered notes and summaries, creating multi-speaker podcasts from research, chatting with documents using context-aware AI, searching across materials with full-text and vector search, or running custom content transformations. Supports 18+ AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, LM Studio, Groq, and Mistral, with data kept on your own infrastructure through self-hosting. For a one-shot file-to-Markdown conversion (no notebook, chat, or search), use alterlab-markitdown instead. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
Works with protocols.io through its REST API (v3 and v4 endpoints) and official MCP server — search and retrieve protocols by keyword, URI, or DOI; create private protocols, edit their metadata and steps, and publish them with a DOI; manage protocol and step discussions, workspaces, file-manager items, file uploads, experiment records, and organization exports. Use when discovering, drafting, publishing, or citing protocols.io protocols, recording protocol runs, or wiring protocols.io into lab documentation. Not for general ELN notebooks (use alterlab-benchling or alterlab-labarchive) or for driving liquid-handling robots. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
Interact with Zotero reference management libraries using the pyzotero Python client — retrieve, create, update, and delete items, collections, tags, and attachments via the Zotero Web API v3. Use when working with Zotero libraries programmatically, managing bibliographic references, exporting citations, searching library contents, uploading PDF attachments, or building research automation workflows that integrate with Zotero. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
Fill out Microsoft Azure Landing Zone (ALZ) Accelerator checklists by interviewing the user, mapping their Azure subscriptions, integrating IP addressing documentation, and applying Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework best practices. Produces a completed Excel checklist (.xlsx) ready for ALZ deployment. Use this skill whenever the user mentions Azure Landing Zone, ALZ checklist, landing zone accelerator, platform landing zone configuration, ALZ bootstrap, hub-and-spoke setup, Azure network topology planning, or wants to fill out any ALZ-related checklist or configuration file. Also trigger when the user uploads an Excel file that contains tabs like "Accelerator - Bootstrap", "Accelerator - Bicep", or "Accelerator - Terraform".
Use when producing or editing Traditional Chinese professional content, especially business, product, proposal, report, pitch, website, documentation, or marketing copy that may contain AI-like sentence patterns, empty contrast phrasing, vague transformation slogans, exaggerated claims, or repetitive polished-but-thin language.
Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.
Create a new Beamer lecture `.tex` from source papers and materials, with notation consistency checks and the project's preamble wired in. Use when user says "create a lecture on X", "new lecture from these papers", "start a deck on topic Y", "scaffold a new Beamer file", "build me a lecture from these PDFs". Scaffolds the full deck — NOT for compiling existing `.tex` (use `/compile-latex`).
Generates a concise developer summary from planning artifacts. Auto-discovers business requirements, technical requirements, milestones, and timeline from the docs/ folder structure. Outputs a focused summary with project overview, deliverables, and milestone roadmap.
Distill a long book into a concise, structured set of learnings by processing it chapter by chapter with parallel subagents, then synthesizing the result -- optionally into a Claude Code skill. Works for any format the book comes in -- PDF, EPUB, Markdown, HTML, plain text. Use this skill whenever the user wants to summarize, distill, extract the core ideas from, or "turn into a skill" a book, ebook, manual, or other long-form document that is too large to read in one pass. Triggers include "distill this book", "summarize this book chapter by chapter", "extract the key principles from this PDF/ebook", "make a skill out of this book", or handing over a large multi-chapter document and asking what to learn from it.
Transform any DOCX document with world-class brand styling. Choose from 10 premium brand aesthetics (The Economist, McKinsey, Deloitte, KPMG, Stripe, Apple, IBM, Notion, Linear, Figma) to polish documents with professional typography, colors, and formatting. Use when users want to: (1) Apply premium brand styling to documents, (2) Make documents look more professional, (3) Match a specific brand's visual identity, (4) Create polished reports, proposals, or presentations.
Create, restructure, review, audit, or migrate DeepSeek Harness Markdown documentation, package READMEs, and the documentation website using audience-first hierarchy, kind-mapped YAML metadata, bilingual line alignment, summary/contents navigation, progressive user-to-developer detail, executed-operation fact-checking, and repository validation. Use for new or revised DSH docs, docs-tree organization, documentation-quality audits and budgets, website page publishing, and bilingual documentation structure changes.
Assistance with writing literature reviews by searching for academic sources via Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref and PubMed APIs. Use when the user needs to find papers on a topic, get details for specific DOIs, or draft sections of a literature review with proper citations.
Presentation creation, editing, and analysis. When Claude needs to work with presentations (.pptx files) for: (1) Creating new presentations, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working with layouts, (4) Adding comments or speaker notes, or any other presentation tasks
Generate comprehensive scientific research-style documentation for completed coding projects. Use when the user requests project documentation, a technical breakdown, a study paper, a lecture document, or wants to understand everything about a project they just built. Triggers include phrases like "document this project," "create a study paper," "explain everything we did," "write up the full breakdown," "scientific documentation," or "I want to learn from this project." Produces formal Word documents (.docx) with academic structure, beginner-friendly explanations, and exhaustive code analysis.
Plan and check the final production tasks for self-publishing nonfiction books, including copyediting, final review readers, proofreading, layout, cover files, print-on-demand, ISBNs, and launch-readiness sequencing. Use when preparing a manuscript for publication after beta reading or when auditing a self-publishing checklist.
Verify technical nonfiction manuscripts for runnable accuracy, including commands, configuration, code snippets, links, version drift, screenshots, prerequisites, security warnings, expected outputs, and reproducibility. Use when auditing self-hosting, DevOps, programming, infrastructure, data, security, or software tutorial drafts before beta reading, publication, or release.
End-to-end pipeline for publishing Claude Code lab meetings. Accepts optional args: date (YYYYMMDD, "yesterday", "today") and lab number (e.g. "04"). Examples: "yesterday 04", "20260420 05", "04" (today, lab 04), "" (today, auto-detect lab).
Audits and repairs Markdown link health across a skills repo via a four-tier pipeline (config hardening, intra-repo file-ref fixes, external URL substitutions, residual exclusions) and enforces a Tier 3 substitution guardrail that prevents regressions of previously-passing links; designed for lychee-based GitHub Actions link checkers but generalizes to markdown-link-check and similar tools. Use when the request mentions link audit, dead links, link health, lychee, broken links, link checker, markdown link audit, link-health audit, 404 audit, check-links failing, CI link-check, or 連結健檢, 死鏈, 失效連結, 斷鏈檢查. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
Build, revise, and restructure academic CVs for PhD applications, research master's programs, fellowships, research internships, RA roles, and lab applications. Use this skill whenever the user asks to turn a resume into an academic CV, improve research-experience bullets, organize publications/projects/teaching/awards, identify missing evidence for research readiness, or make a CV fit research admissions expectations.
Convert text with private context or internal dependencies into generic, unbiased expressions that are standalone and reusable. Core goal — produce decontextualized text that preserves logic while removing organizational identifiers. Use for project handoff, open-source prep, methodology abstraction, cross-team sharing.
Comprehensive document creation, editing, and analysis with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, and text extraction. When Claude needs to work with professional documents (.docx files) for: (1) Creating new documents, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working with tracked changes, (4) Adding comments, or any other document tasks
Provides comprehensive guidance for draw.io architecture diagrams including diagram creation, shapes, templates, and collaboration. Use when the user asks about draw.io architecture, needs to create architecture diagrams, design system diagrams, or collaborate on diagrams.
Transform raw data from CSVs, Google Sheets, or databases into executive-ready reports with visualizations, key metrics, trend analysis, and actionable recommendations. Creates data-driven narratives for leadership. Use when users need to turn spreadsheets into executive summaries or board reports.
Create stunning, animation-rich HTML presentations from scratch or convert PowerPoint files (.ppt/.pptx) to beautiful web slides. Use when the user wants to build a pitch deck, presentation, slideshow, or slide deck — or convert an existing PPT to a web presentation. Generates zero-dependency single HTML files with keyboard/touch navigation and scroll-triggered animations. Style options include Neon Cyber, Bold Signal, Swiss Modern, Paper & Ink, and 8 more curated presets.
Create single-file HTML slide presentations with vanilla JS/CSS. Themed (terminal.css, catppuccin, nord), keyboard-navigable, with inline SVG diagrams and animations. Use when the user asks for an HTML presentation, slide deck, or single-file slides without a framework.
Autonomous job application agent. Searches jobs, tailors resumes per JD, generates cover letters, fills ATS forms, and submits applications across 10+ platforms — fully hands-free. Triggers on: "apply", "job application", "auto apply", or job URLs.
Generate professional slide deck images from content (Markdown, text, URLs). Creates outlines with style instructions, then generates individual slide images. Supports 16 visual styles, CJK/Latin mixed text, branding overlays, and PPTX/PDF export. Use when the user asks to "create slides", "make a presentation", "generate deck", "slide deck", "PPT", "做PPT", "生成幻灯片", "制作演示文稿", or wants to turn content into a visual slide deck.
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