research-proposal

95 / 100 · Low risk

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

By gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills (GitHub) · research · 181 stars · scanned at commit f1169e6

Use when the user has a research proposal (problem + proposed methodology + planned experiments) and wants it iteratively strengthened until it clears a passing grade. ScholarEval grades the proposal against the literature (Soundness + Contribution), a Judge scores that feedback 0-100 on a fixed rubric, and a Reviser rewrites the proposal to fix the worst points without diluting the research question; loops until the grade passes or the budget is hit. Not for generating a proposal from scratch,…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a research skill.

Found in 2 places.

loops/research-proposal/schemas/scholareval.schema.json, line 49"description": "The citation pool. Every `cites` key in any point MUST resolve to an entry here, and every entry MUST come from a real tools/lit_search.py / Web
loops/research-proposal/schemas/scholareval.schema.json, line 58"description": "Which retrieval path produced it (s2 = lit_search search/snippet/cite; arxiv = fulltext; web = WebSearch/WebFetch fallback)."},

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=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'f1169e6db0b0f8a83ced3a18562b7c57e14a748a' -- 'loops/research-proposal' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'loops/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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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-07	`f1169e6`	100