Agent skill · vasilyu1983
research-scout
Mines academic papers, research blogs, and curator newsletters for stealable methods and frameworks. Use when scanning research for applicable techniques across AI/ML/SWE.
What it needs
About 10k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Dev Research Scout Scans high-signal research sources for methods, frameworks, and ideas worth applying to your own work, and converts the top finds into idea cards with how-to-apply recipes, evidence quality grades, and reproducibility notes. Supported sources: arXiv, Hugging Face Papers, Semantic Scholar, Papers with Code (archive only — shut down Jul 2025), conference proceedings (NeurIPS / ICML / ICLR / ACL / EMNLP / KDD), industry research blogs (Anthropic / OpenAI / DeepMind / Google Research / Meta AI / Microsoft Research / Apple ML), and curator newsletters (Lilian Weng, Sebastian Raschka, Eugene Yan, Latent Space, Simon Willison, The Batch, Import AI, Interconnects / Nathan Lambert, Davis Summarizes Papers / Davis Blalock). Output is a generative toolkit, not a landscape report: pattern catalog (methods worth stealing, with how-to-apply) anti-pattern catalog (research traps — irreproducibility, benchmark gaming, hype) recipes (extraction, validation-before-adoption, kill criteria) Key distinction from sibling scouts: This skill = research-grade idea mining (papers + research blogs + curated synthesis) research-painpoint-scanner = community-pain mining (Reddit / HN / GitHub Issues / G2 / Stack Overflow) research-arxiv-scout = arXiv-only deep triage with category taxonomy and attribution; specialist downstream research-git = public GitHub repo research for skills, practices, and code patterns (separate concern) Use this skill when the question is "what methods or frameworks are worth stealing from recent research?" — escalate to research-arxiv-scout for arXiv-only work where category taxonomy and attribution matter most. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills vasilyu1983/research-scout