Creates and refines high-quality academic presentations from research papers. Use this skill for tasks involving the conversion of scientific or technical documents into slide decks for conferences, lectures, or academic reviews.

Refines and restructures existing presentations into concise, high-impact versions suitable for short academic conference talks (e.g., 20 minutes). Focuses on logical flow, information density, and visual consistency.

Audit and refine academic manuscripts for structure, terminology consistency, LaTeX hygiene, and high-signal grammar fixes. Use this skill for theses, papers, proposals, and technical reports when the task is manuscript writing rather than experiment execution.

Evaluate whether backside benefits come from `CTS-backside-only` or from moving a selected subset of signal nets to backside, under a fair and physically valid comparison contract.

Plan and execute internet-assisted backside net cost modeling for signal and clock nets, then evaluate stability and correlation against HPWL baselines across multiple designs. Use when users ask to improve/validate backside cost models, choose benchmark designs, compare model vs HPWL, or prepare publishable model-evaluation evidence.

Build and validate theory-grounded optimization models for backside front-vs-back net cost (signal and clock), with strict metric contracts and stability gates against HPWL baselines. Use when users request principled model fitting, crossover reasoning, or promotion decisions from shadow mode to active optimization.

Drive BSPDN objective optimization toward target outcomes (about 8% dynamic-power reduction without area/timing regression, or 5%+ frequency uplift with non-worse power/area) using gated experiments and evidence tracking.

Manage and standardize project conda environment usage as an auxiliary utility skill, including env discovery, package availability checks, explicit env selection, and reproducible `conda run -n ...` integration for scripts and workflows.

Before each experiment, analyze latest route/STA evidence, reflect on method gaps, and output concrete improvement hypotheses and next-step A/B plan. Use when user asks to start new experiments or when model/flow conclusions may be unstable.

Execute delay-model validation gates against HPWL baselines. Use when evaluating model consistency, running Gate-0 contract checks, building Gate-1 bucketed scorecards, or deciding readiness for active optimization.

Clean and normalize knowledge-base, tool-registry, and log artifacts by merging duplicates, removing stale items, and correcting inaccurate naming while preserving traceability.

Bridge autoIdea literature recommendation, historical formulation, and idea-generation outputs into the current repo's paper/knowledge/skill workflow.

Legacy compatibility shim for historical eda-chief calls. Use when old prompts/scripts still invoke eda-chief, then dispatch to the repo-level agent policy and execution skills.

Convert research ideas into falsifiable hypotheses and experiment plans with metrics, controls, pass/fail criteria, and confounder mitigation.

Generate and refine EDA research ideas through structured brainstorming and pro-vs-con debate, then output a testable idea decision memo.

Maintain and evolve the EDA infrastructure stack (agent policy, knowledge base, tool registry, and skill system) with auditable guardrails and minimal-risk updates.

Explore and structure local EDA knowledge, identify evidence gaps, and prepare targeted literature retrieval tasks for local download and follow-up parsing.

Enforce experiment hygiene for this EDA repo. Utility skill for knowledge gate, tool reuse checks, and maintenance-log updates during scoped execution.

Implement EDA research methods from approved hypothesis plans, with integration discipline, measurable contracts, and minimal-risk iteration.

Fetch primary-source paper metadata when evidence is missing or weak for EDA/model/flow claims. Use for requests like building reproducible paper candidate lists, generating user-download queues, and recording citation metadata for local validation.