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research-proposal

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Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills (GitHub) · research · 5,016 stars · scanned at commit 8684584

Generate academic research proposals for PhD applications. Use when user asks to "write a research proposal", "create PhD proposal", "generate research plan", "撰写研究计划", "写博士申请", "doctoral proposal", or mentions specific research topics for PhD application. Supports STEM, humanities, and social sciences with field-specific adaptations. Follows Nature Reviews-style academic writing conventions. Supports both English and Chinese output based on user preference.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Connects to the internet

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a research skill.

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Runs commands on your computer

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'research-proposal' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'research-proposal' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named research-proposal already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8684584e7d1127940f018157d2c579974fae8f79' -- 'skills/02-luwill-research-skills/research-proposal' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/02-luwill-research-skills/research-proposal' ~/.agents/skills/'research-proposal' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'research-proposal' ~/.claude/skills/'research-proposal' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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2026-11-10868458492
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