Deep ResearchCAUTION

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize

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name: deep-research
description: "Universal deep research agent team. 13-agent pipeline for rigorous academic research on any topic. 8 modes: full research, quick brief, paper review, lit-review, fact-check, three-way literature scan, Socratic guided research dialogue, and systematic review with optional meta-analysis. Covers research question formulation, Socratic mentoring, methodology design, systematic literature search, source verification, cross-source synthesis, risk of bias assessment, meta-analysis, APA 7.0 report compilation, editorial review, devil's advocate challenges, ethics review, and post-research literature monitoring. Triggers on: research, deep research, literature review, systematic review, meta-analysis, PRISMA, evidence synthesis, fact-check, WHY HOW WHAT papers, 3W literature scan, guide my research, help me think through, 研究, 深度研究, 文獻回顧, 文獻探討, 系統性回顧, 後設分析, 事實查核, 三段式文獻掃描, 引導我的研究, 幫我釐清, 幫我想想, 我不確定要研究什麼, 研究方向, 研究主題, 심층 연구, 문헌 조사, 체계적 문헌고찰, 메타분석, 사실 확인, 연구 방향을 잡아줘, 연구 주제 정하는 것을 도와줘, revisión de literatura, metaanálisis"
metadata:
  version: "2.12.1"
  last_updated: "2026-08-15"
  status: active
  data_access_level: raw
  task_type: open-ended
  related_skills:
    - academic-paper
    - academic-pipeline
---

# 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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**Step 0 — Escape hatch check (before any classification):** If the user's first message begins with `[direct-mode]` (case-insensitive byte-0 token, optionally preceded by whitespace/newlines that are stripped on parse), record this fact, strip the prefix and surrounding whitespace from the message, and skip directly to **Step 1 explicit-intent handling** on the stripped content. The literal `[direct-mode]` is NOT passed through to the dispatched agent. If the stripped message itself has no clear skill named, Step 1 falls through to Step 3 clarification (the escape hatch bypasses cross-phase clarification (Step 2), not all routing). When the token is honored and the named agent or skill needs inputs the message does not supply, read that agent's or skill's file and ask for what it requires, in its terms. Without the byte-0 token, naming an agent is not explicit intent: such a message goes through Steps 1-3 like any other, so cross-phase materials still get Step 2 clarification.

Otherwise, classify the user's input:

1. **Explicit clear intent** — user invokes a specific skill via `/ars-*` slash command, or uses an unambiguous trigger keyword that maps to a single skill (e.g., "lit-review this", "review my paper", "draft an abstract"):
   → Route directly; no clarification, no orchestrator detour.
   → The request stays explicit when the mode's usual input is absent or a word in it has other everyday senses. A revision request with no reviewer comments is revision mode's "feel certain sections need improvement" case, and "revisar artículo" is the reviewer's trigger. Route to that mode and let the mode handle what is missing; do not reopen the choice of workflow.

2. **Cross-phase materials detected** — user provides artifacts spanning ≥ 2 pipeline phases without naming a specific skill (e.g., pre-written abstract + pre-collected literature; full draft + reviewer comments + bibliography):
   → **Clarify**. Do NOT auto-route to a single-phase agent. List candidate workflows as a-d options in markdown body (NOT via AskUserQuestion tool). See `shared/references/intent_clarification_protocol.md` for the message template.
   → Reason: clarification is the safest action when materials don't unambiguously identify intent. (v3.10 active conductor (#134) will handle this via structured intake; v3.9.2 asks.)

3. **Ambiguous intent, no materials** — user provides no artifacts and no clear request:
   → Clarify per `shared/references/intent_clarification_protocol.md`.

**Anti-pattern (caused #133):** Receiving ambiguous cross-phase materials and silently auto-routing to a single-phase agent based on which phase the materials "look closest to." This bypasses orchestrator-level reconciliation and lets the subagent inherit the full ambiguity without independent oversight.
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## Quick Start

**Minimal command:**
```
Research the impact of AI on higher education quality assurance
```

**Socratic mode:**
```
Guide my research on the impact of declining birth rates on private universities
引導我的研究:少子化對私立大學的影響
幫我釐清我的研究方向,我對高教品保有興趣但還不太確定
```

**Execution:**
1. Scoping — Research question + methodology blueprint
2. Investigation — Systematic literature search + source verification
3. Analysis — Cross-source synthesis + bias check
4. Composition — Full APA 7.0 report
5. Review — Editorial + ethics + vulnerability scan
6. Revision — Final polished report

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skills/academic-paper

skills/academic-paper-reviewer

skills/academic-pipeline

skills/deep-research

Rechecked 2026-08-01, the HTTPS request for that DOI redirects to `http://122.115.55.36:8000/doi/...`: plaintext, a bare IP, and outside the allowlist. The client refuses that hop before reading its b

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