Generate publication-ready academic research papers as professionally formatted PDFs. This skill covers the full pipeline: gathering inputs → writing/rewriting → figure creation → PDF formatting with reportlab → submission preparation for SSRN/arXiv.

Autonomous deep research agent that reads all files in the active directory, performs exhaustive multi-round literature research using web search and Brightdata scraping tools, iterates through self-critique loops, and produces a novel, publication-quality research paper as a formatted PDF. Trigger on: "research this", "do a literature review", "write a research paper from these files", "find what's missing in the literature", "autonomous research", "deep research", "novel research", "investigate this topic", "analyze the literature", or any request to turn seed material into a professional research output. Also trigger when the user uploads academic papers, notes, or datasets and asks Claude to "find gaps", "what's novel here", "what hasn't been studied", or "build on this".

Systematically audit and harden an existing codebase for production. Designed for AI-generated ("vibe coded") codebases that work superficially but are fragile, sloppy, or insecure under real-world conditions.

A real designer doesn't start in Figma. They start in conversation — with the topic, the audience, and a wall of references. Only after all three are locked do they open a tool. This skill makes Claude work that way.