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Trace drug mechanism of action — primary target → downstream signaling → pathway perturbation → tissue/organ effect → clinical outcome. Uses DrugBank, ChEMBL, KEGG, Reactome, STRING. Use for understanding how a drug works, identifying off-target effects, mechanism-based combination therapy design, and writing mechanism sections of reports.
Exa.ai deep research and answer generation with citations. Use when building research automation, implementing Answer API for Q&A with sources, creating research reports, or using deep search with summaries. Triggers on: Exa Answer, answer endpoint, exa.answer, deep search, research API, Exa Research, async research, research report, citation extraction, summarization with sources, fact verification, streaming answers, research tasks.
Use this skill when the user asks whether an automation or AI agent would pay off, where to start automating a process, how much time a change gives back, or for a short internal justification. Answers from the conversation first; when the user names a pipe, reads what already runs there before pointing at a step. Not for diagnosing a whole pipe (pipefy-process-intelligence), designing one (pipefy-process-design), building (pipefy-building), or what a change breaks elsewhere.
Expert project manager orchestrating backlog-curator, work-delegator, workstream-coordinator, and roadmap-strategist sub-skills. Coordinates complex software projects through delegation and strategic oversight. Activates when managing projects, coordinating work, or tracking overall progress.
Publish files or Obsidian notes as GitHub Gists. Use when user wants to share code/notes publicly, create quick shareable snippets, or publish markdown to GitHub. Triggers include "publish as gist", "create gist", "share on github", "make a gist from this".
Search the web, news, and images through the Serper API. Use when the user asks to search the web, find current information online, verify recent facts, search Google, find images, or gather search results with source links.
Guide for implementing Obsidian knowledge management - vault operations, plugin development, URI scheme automation, markdown extensions, and Local REST API integration. Use when working with Obsidian vaults, creating plugins, automating note workflows, querying notes via API, or implementing knowledge graph features.
Build a multi-quarter roadmap from a backlog of ideas, requests, and ongoing initiatives. Use this skill when planning the next quarter, sequencing dependent work, balancing build vs improve vs maintain, or making the case for what NOT to do. Triggers on roadmap, quarterly planning, what should we build next, sequencing, prioritization, OKR planning, capacity planning, what's on the roadmap, plan the year, what to ship next quarter. Also triggers when stakeholders are pulling in different directions and the team needs a defensible plan.
Specialized workflows for drafting, refining, and responding to academic literature reviews and peer review feedback. Use this skill for literature review outlines, research-gap synthesis, reviewer rebuttals, response letters, and academic writing tone repair.
A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. CoPaper.AI completes a reproducible, rigorous empirical paper in 20 minutes and supports user-uploaded Skills. Maintained by CoPaper.AI from Stanford REAP.
Project planning and management with CodeSpring. Use when the user wants to work with CodeSpring projects, tasks, PRDs, mindmaps, or analyze a codebase for project planning. Handles workspace selection, project linking, task management, and syncing findings to CodeSpring.
A cram engine for finals—an AI teacher grounded in the science of learning. Based on cognitive load theory, elaboration, the generation effect, and retrieval practice, its four-stage pipeline—break down → teach → quiz → fill gaps—turns course highlights into interactive, efficient study sessions. Launch with one command and save students from finals.
Socratic coach for breaking down problems to fundamental truths. Use when users want to think through a problem deeply, challenge assumptions, or find innovative solutions. Triggers on requests like “help me think through this,” “let’s break this down,” “what are my blind spots,” “I’m stuck on a problem,” “challenge my assumptions,” or explicit requests for first-principles thinking.
Read/write brain files (Obsidian vault at brain/). Use for any task that persists knowledge — reflection, planning, or direct edits. Triggers after debugging sessions, mistakes, corrections, architectural decisions, or any insight worth preserving across sessions. Use on 'add to brain', 'remember this', 'write a note', or brain/ modifications.
Status dashboard for cheat-on-content. Shows the current mode / rubric version / calibration progress / items pending review / pool status / whether SQLite should be upgraded / whether the rubric should be bumped. Can be called at any time with no side effects. Trigger phrases: “状态”/“看板”/“status”/“我现在该做什么”/“进度怎么样”。
Run a GitHub issue digest for openai/codex by feature-area labels, all areas, and configurable time windows. Use when asked to summarize recent Codex bug reports or enhancement requests, especially for owner-specific labels such as tui, exec, app, or similar areas.
Original prompt for fact-checking. Use when the user wants to verify whether a claim, opinion, conclusion, data point, or plan holds up. Trigger phrases include fact-check, check this for me, is this true, verify this, is there a hallucination, is this data reliable, review this opinion, and fact check. Requires online verification; provide a five-level confidence rating and identify flaws in the reasoning chain.
Takes meeting transcripts, extracts action items with owners and deadlines, detects implicit commitments, generates structured meeting summaries, and outputs task files compatible with Linear, GitHub Issues, and other project management tools.
Original prompt for steelmanning both sides. Use when the user is torn between two options and needs to make a decision. Trigger phrases include steelman, steelman both sides, steelman, which of two options, help me decide, give the strongest arguments for both sides, and should I choose A or B. Present the strongest arguments for both sides, the real disagreement, and key variables, then ask the question most likely to change the conclusion.
Original prompt for cross-domain borrowing. Use when the user cannot find a solution in their own field and needs to borrow mechanisms from other domains. Trigger phrases include cross-domain, how other industries solve this, look at it from another angle, make an analogy, borrow from another field, and has a similar problem been solved elsewhere? Provide at least three structurally similar cases from distant fields and transferable mechanisms.
A Ctrip flight search skill based on browser automation tools. Supports one-way and round-trip flight searches, handles inputs such as origin, destination, and dates, and includes error recovery. For searching flight information, prices, and schedules on Ctrip.
Turning research artifacts into actionable PM insight. Customer interviews, user research notes, support ticket reviews, sales call transcripts, survey data, in-app feedback, all synthesized into the decisions they are meant to inform. The discipline of moving from raw discovery data to clear product direction without losing signal in the synthesis or fabricating insight that was not actually there. Triggers on research synthesis, customer interview synthesis, user research analysis, discovery readout, research insights, sales call analysis, support ticket analysis, qualitative data analysis. Also triggers when a team has done research but cannot turn it into decisions, when synthesis is producing pretty decks but no roadmap movement, or when an upcoming PM decision needs to be grounded in research already conducted.
Design and run a documentation system for a team or product. Use this skill when planning what to document, choosing a documentation tool, organizing existing docs, fixing stale documentation, designing a maintenance cadence, or scoping technical writing work. Triggers on documentation, docs, tech writing, knowledge base, wiki, runbook, README, internal docs, doc audit, doc maintenance, stale docs, where do we document. Also triggers when the team is repeatedly answering the same questions or when onboarding takes too long.
Original prompt for life design. Based on Stanford's Life Design method, use when the user wants to understand their current position, distinguish gravity problems from genuinely designable problems, or plan the next five years. This is a multi-turn in-depth conversation with six to nine main questions. It ends with a personal life-design blueprint of 8,000–12,000 Chinese characters and three Odyssey Plans.
Original prompt for a minimum experiment. Use when more thinking will not clarify what the user is struggling with and real-world feedback is needed to test it. Trigger phrases include minimum experiment, try it first, how to validate, stop speculating, run an experiment, low-cost trial and error, validate in seven days, have gone back and forth many times, and still can't choose after thinking for a long time. Provide the hypothesis to test, a complete design for a low-cost, reversible experiment, and the first action they can take tomorrow.
Interactive, problem-first PRD generator — interviews the user to surface the thesis (the problem, and WHY build it) and a falsifiable hypothesis, then writes a focused PRODUCT-level PRD (problem · evidence · hypothesis · users · MVP · success metrics · non-goals · open questions). Use at the start of a greenfield effort to discuss the product. A PRD is INTENT (what/why), never engineering decisions (how) — those are the `plan-architecture` skill's spec.
Read an academic paper end to end and extract professional research insights, figures, metadata, and critique. Use this skill whenever the user shares a scientific paper, review paper, survey paper, systematic review, meta-analysis, scoping review, arXiv link, DOI, PDF, or pasted paper text and asks to read, summarize, analyze, extract, digest, review, critique, or explain it. For original research papers, produce a modified Heilmeier analysis. For review literature, produce a field-map extraction covering scope, taxonomy, evidence quality, consensus, controversies, gaps, and future directions. Do NOT use this skill for non-academic articles, blog posts, or news
Original prompt for Socratic inquiry. Use when the user cannot clearly say what they want to ask, their problem is tangled, or they want to clarify the question before acting. Trigger phrases include Socratic, Socratic questioning, help me diagnose this, help me clarify the problem, I don't know what to ask, don't give advice yet, and what am I really asking? Ask only one question at a time, up to six questions, then formulate a new question that is genuinely worth answering.
Examine complex decisions using Charlie Munger-style inversion, incentive analysis, the lollapalooza effect of cognitive biases, and multidisciplinary mental models. Use to evaluate business and investment judgments, organizational behavior, policy outcomes, major choices, popular consensus, and failure risks, or to identify one-sided perspectives and blind spots in an argument.
A constructive, evidence-based dialogue mode that avoids sycophancy. Use when the user wants balanced multi-perspective analysis, critical feedback, or rigorous challenge of their ideas. Triggered by “/balanced” or requests for honest, critical, or balanced feedback. Supports passive, interactive, tldr, steelman, and decision modes.
Transforms analysis, data, and complex information into clear, persuasive narratives tailored to specific audiences—executives, customers, investors, or non-technical stakeholders. Provides story structures (Hero's Journey, Problem-Solution-Benefit, Situation-Complication-Resolution) and audience adaptation techniques. Use when presenting findings, explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences, writing announcements, or when users mention “write this for,” “explain to,” “present findings,” “make this compelling,” or “audience is.”
“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” Master Dwight D. Eisenhower's prioritization framework to focus on what truly matters. Use when: Feeling overwhelmed by too many tasks and not enough time; weekly planning to set priorities for the week ahead; daily triage when everything seems urgent; making delegation decisions to identify what others should handle; saying no by recognizing tasks that shouldn't be done at all
Original prompt for the big-picture, small-text explanation method. Use when the user wants to quickly understand an unfamiliar topic, explain it with more visuals and less text, mentions eli5, or says they completely don't understand something. Use it when they want visuals or a page they can open; not when a text explanation is enough. Trigger phrases include big picture, small text, eli5, explain as if I know nothing, illustrated explanation, explain it with little text, I don't understand at all, and generate an explanation page. Produce an HTML explanation page with a large illustration and minimal text.
Original prompt for an expert panel. Use when a user's question requires several complementary areas of expertise and a single perspective cannot provide a good solution. Trigger phrases include expert panel, look at this from multiple perspectives, find a few experts, multidisciplinary analysis, assemble an expert team, and have them challenge one another. Present the points of disagreement across three complementary perspectives and a synthesized plan, including applicability conditions, the greatest risk, and exit criteria.
Original prompt for in-depth talent discovery. Use when the user wants to find talents they have overlooked or suppressed, doubts they have any talents, or wants a personal guide to using their talents. This is a multi-turn in-depth conversation lasting over half an hour. Ask one question at a time, up to ten main questions, and produce a guide of around 10,000 Chinese characters at the end.
Expert in building custom tools that solve your own problems first. The best products often start as personal tools—scratch your own itch, build for yourself, then discover others have the same itch. Covers rapid prototyping, local-first apps, CLI tools, scripts that grow into products, and the art of dogfooding. Use when building a tool, personal tool, scratch-my-itch solution, or CLI tool.
Original prompt for reverse teardown. Use when the user sees a strong product, website, plan, process, dashboard, or work and wants to learn why it works. Trigger phrases include reverse teardown, break this down, why is this done well, I want to imitate it, reverse-engineer this, analyze this good example, and what makes this great. Provide reusable principles and an actionable checklist. Analyze only successful work; do not use it for postmortems on failed projects or disastrous launches.
Draft stakeholder updates tailored to the audience—executives, engineering, customers, or cross-functional partners. Use when writing weekly status updates, monthly reports, launch announcements, risk communications, or decision documentation.
Writing assistant — triggered when the user says “I want to write XX,” “help me develop a topic,” “how do I form an outline,” or “help me organize my ideas.” Automatically selects the best approach based on how clear the viewpoint is: clear viewpoints follow “outline → content,” while unclear viewpoints follow “exploration → topic selection → outline → content.”
Expert knowledge for Azure Boards development, including troubleshooting, best practices, decision-making, limits and quotas, security, configuration, integrations, and coding patterns. Use when managing work items, Agile/Scrum processes, WIQL queries, Excel/Office integrations, GitHub links, or other Azure Boards development tasks. Not for Azure DevOps (use azure-devops), Azure Pipelines (use azure-pipelines), Azure Repos (use azure-repos), or Azure Test Plans (use azure-test-plans).
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