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20Audience · researcherComplexity · 2/5LicenseSetup · moderate

In one sentence

A set of installable AI agent skills that automate academic research tasks, using a real literature search tool so every claim traces to an actual paper.

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    What it does
      AI research skills
      Cites real papers only
    Tech stack
      Claude Code
      scimaster-cli
    Use cases
      Support or counter a claim
      Map a topic
      Check novelty
    Audience
      Researchers

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Find real published papers that support or contradict a research claim.

USE CASE 2

Build a concept map of a topic from retrieved paper abstracts.

USE CASE 3

Check whether a research idea has already been published before starting work on it.

USE CASE 4

Trace a research problem back through its foundational prior work.

What is it built with?

Pythonscimaster-cli

How does it compare?

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LanguageJavaScriptGo
Setup difficultymoderatemoderatehard
Complexity2/52/53/5
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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires the separate scimaster-cli literature search tool to function.

Free to use and adapt for non-commercial purposes as long as you give attribution and share changes under the same license.

So what is it?

This repository (README written in Chinese) is a collection of AI-assisted academic research workflows packaged as installable agent skills. The author, who goes by the handle bear, developed these workflows from personal experience doing academic research and released them as reusable tools that plug into AI coding environments like Claude Code or Codex. All of the skills depend on a command-line tool called scimaster-cli, which is a separate academic literature search tool built by the author's team. Every output must trace back to a real search result from that tool. The repository makes this a hard rule: no filling in from memory, no invented references. The individual skills cover common research tasks. bear-support finds real papers that back a given claim, ranked by how directly they support it. bear-counter finds papers that challenge or contradict the same claim, rated by how serious the threat is. bear-map builds a concept knowledge map around a topic using retrieved abstracts, not recalled facts. bear-scoop checks whether a research idea already exists in the literature before you invest time in it. bear-trace traces a research problem back through earlier foundational work to show how a field evolved. The three workflow skills chain these together: bear-review runs support and counter in parallel to give a balanced evidence picture, bear-onboard runs map plus trace to help someone enter an unfamiliar field quickly, and bear-propose runs scoop, support, and counter in sequence to evaluate a proposal idea before it is submitted. Each run produces four outputs: a terminal summary, a structured Markdown report, a self-contained HTML report with dark mode support, and a BibTeX file of all cited papers. The repository is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, which permits free use and adaptation for non-commercial purposes with attribution.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Use bear-support to find papers backing this claim: [claim].
Prompt 2
Run bear-review to give me a balanced evidence picture on this research question.
Prompt 3
Use bear-scoop to check if this research idea already exists in the literature.
Prompt 4
Run bear-onboard to help me get oriented in this unfamiliar research field.

Frequently asked questions

What is bear-research-skills?

A set of installable AI agent skills that automate academic research tasks, using a real literature search tool so every claim traces to an actual paper.

What license does bear-research-skills use?

Free to use and adapt for non-commercial purposes as long as you give attribution and share changes under the same license.

How hard is bear-research-skills to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is bear-research-skills for?

Mainly researcher.

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