research-workspace

Turn a research area into a go/no-go decision dossier for ONE candidate thesis/proposal topic — a 3-gate verdict (is the gap open? is it a contribution? is it feasible?) with the evidence laid out so the researcher can verify it. Use when the user asks "is this gap worth pursuing", "help me pick a thesis topic", "is this idea already taken", "find me a defensible research gap", "vet this research idea before I commit", or "should I do this". NOT a literature review (use `literature-triage-matrix` for a comparison matrix) and NOT a study design (use `research-design-helper` once a topic is chosen). Produces a `.research/topic_dossier.md`, a `.research/topic_dossier.docx` (Word, colour-coded), a `.bib`, and a `.gaps.yml`.

Turn a list of papers (Zotero collection, Obsidian cluster, manual list) into a compact comparison matrix written to .research/literature_matrix.md, instead of generic per-paper summaries. Use when the user asks to "make a literature matrix", "compare these papers by method/data/limitations", or "decide which papers are central to my review". If the user says "extract the claims from these papers": cross-paper comparison matrix → this skill; claims from their own manuscript draft → `paper-memory-builder`; per-cited-paper Key Findings → `paper-summarize`. This skill compares a KNOWN paper set; to turn a research area into a go/no-go decision on a candidate thesis/proposal topic, use `gap-to-topic`.

Compare a downloaded NotebookLM brief against the source bundle research-hub uploaded, and report missed sources, unsupported claims, contradictions, and recommended follow-up prompts. Use when the user asks to "verify this NotebookLM brief", "check if the brief missed anything", or "compare downloaded notes to the cluster papers".

Convert a paper draft + figures + Zotero metadata into reusable .paper/claims.yml and .paper/figures.yml files so the academic-writing-skills skill can do writing, revision, and audit passes without re-reading the manuscript every time. Use when the user asks to "build paper memory", "extract claims from this manuscript", "extract claims, supporting evidence, and figure key numbers", or "prepare this paper for AI-assisted writing". NOT for summarizing cited papers in a literature cluster — that's `paper-summarize`. This skill is for the user's own manuscript draft only.

After research-hub ingests a cluster of cited papers, fill the per-paper Key Findings + Methodology + Relevance sections in BOTH Obsidian markdown and the Zotero child note. Use when the user says "fill the TODO Key Findings/Methodology blocks left by research-hub auto", "I just ran auto and don't know what these papers are about", or "summarize the papers in cluster X". Invokes a supported LLM CLI on each paper's abstract. NOT for summarizing the user's own manuscript draft — that's `paper-memory-builder`. NOT for cluster-level briefs — that's `research-hub notebooklm generate`. This skill is per-cited-paper only. If the user says "extract claims from these papers", disambiguate before acting: their own manuscript draft → `paper-memory-builder`; a cross-paper comparison matrix → `literature-triage-matrix`; per-cited-paper Key Findings → this skill.