Skills, in their native habitat.

Cross-cutting meta skills — authoring new skills, integrity audit before publish, release management, cross-reference mapping, agent handoff with Material Passports

A well-formed test fixture for the validation script.

Section-by-section guidance for biomedical manuscripts using the IMRAD frame (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion), title and abstract strategies, figure/table selection,...

Structures the rebuttal letter to reviewers and editor after peer review: response architecture, point-by-point format, how to handle conflicting reviewers, polite disagreement,...

Detailed how-to for the actual response-to-reviewers document: tone discipline, heading structure (Reviewer N, Comment M: ... Response: ...), line-number references, embedding...

One sentence (max 200 chars) — what the skill does and when to use it.

AI/LLM usage disclosure for biomedical manuscripts: which journals require disclosure (Nature, Science, Cell), what counts as AI authorship (banned) vs. AI tool use (allowed with...

Use when generating an NIH or NSF Biographical Sketch in SciENcv (current format): personal statement, contribution statements (new 2025 NIH format), positions and honors,...

Creative research ideation and exploration. Use for open-ended brainstorming, interdisciplinary connections, challenging assumptions, or identifying research gaps in early-stage...

Choose and audit color palettes for scientific figures. Covers ColorBrewer, viridis, color-blindness simulators (Coblis, Sim Daltonism), texture/pattern encoding, WCAG 2.1...

Designs, scripts, and rehearses a 10-20 minute scientific conference talk (job talk, contributed talk, plenary, lightning) for a technical but non-specialist audience. Enforces a...

Crafts a 30-second, 60-second, and 2-minute scientific elevator pitch (a researcher describing their work to a non-specialist) using the Problem-Approach-Result-So-What (PARS)...

Produces a 20-60 minute scientific podcast episode (interview, narrated story, or panel) for a general audience, with a pre-published show note, three-act structure, host prep,...

Designs and presents a scientific conference poster (A0 / 48x36 inches) for a 2-minute scan by a passing expert, a 10-minute deep read by a collaborator, and a 3-minute Q&A with...

Drafts a 400-word scientific press release for the public and journalists using the Inverted Pyramid structure, the AAAS Newsmakers framework, and the Gopen & Swan sentence...

Crafts a cover letter to a biomedical journal editor: addressing the editor, novelty statement, suggested and recommended-against reviewers, conflicts of interest, what not to...

Evaluate scientific claims and evidence quality. Use for assessing experimental design validity, identifying biases and confounders, applying evidence grading frameworks (GRADE,...

Use when responding to a DARPA Broad Agency Announcement: white paper vs full proposal, Heilmeier Catechism framing, program manager engagement, BAA-specific formatting, cost...

Use when drafting or revising an ERC proposal: B1 Extended Synopsis (2 pp), B2 Full Proposal (≈7–8 pp), CV, Track Record, resources, ethics issues table, and host institution...

Handle negative results, failed experiments, preregistration violations, and replication failures. Use for reporting null findings, deciding when to revise vs. discard hypotheses,...