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Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize
A Claude Code plugin suite for academic researchers covering the full paper lifecycle — literature search, drafting, peer review simulation, and integrity verification. Targets grad students and researchers who want AI assistance without fully automating away their judgment. The human-in-the-loop stance is explicit and well-argued.
The citation hallucination problem is taken seriously in a concrete way: v3.7.3 added three-layer citation anchors and v3.8 added an opt-in audit pass that actually fetches cited sources and checks claim support — not just format validation. The Devil's Advocate concession threshold protocol (score 1–5, concede only at ≥4) is a real attempt to address sycophancy rather than just describing it as a problem. The CI/CD setup is unusually disciplined for a prompt repo: changelog-covers-merges gate, version-consistency invariants, command-invariants that pin the slash command inventory, and defrift locks that hash prompt text to catch silent drift. The 10-stage pipeline orchestrator with mandatory blocking integrity gates at 2.5 and 4.5 means you can't skip the integrity check by accident.
The repo is essentially a collection of markdown prompt files — there's no way to test whether any of this actually works as claimed without running it yourself against live API calls. The showcase artifacts are real, but the post-publication audit report in the examples found 21/68 issues missed by three rounds of integrity checks, which is not a ringing endorsement of the pipeline's reliability. The CC-BY-NC license means you can't use this in any commercial research context, including industry research roles, which quietly excludes a large portion of the target audience. The complexity has grown to the point where understanding what actually runs requires reading ARCHITECTURE.md, MODE_REGISTRY.md, and a dozen references files — the README is now a table of contents to the documentation rather than a useful starting point.