# Skills library for a research team

Published: 2026-05-26T00:00:00.000Z
Canonical: https://wow.pjh.is/journal/example-skills-library-research-org

Below is a snapshot of a research team's shared [skills](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/claude-skills) library.

A snapshot of the full skill files is [here](https://github.com/HartreeWorks/research-skills).

| Name                   | Description                                                                                                                                                         |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| adversarial-prompt     | Red-team a claim or document from five independent angles at once, surfacing empirical, logical, methodological, historical, and strongest-opposition critiques.    |
| ask-many-contexts      | Compare the same prompt under full project context, base context, and zero context to test whether added scaffolding improves responses.                            |
| ask-many-models        | Send the same prompt to multiple AI models in parallel, then synthesise their responses to surface consensus, disagreements, unique insights, and confidence level. |
| ask-many-times         | Send the same prompt to multiple fresh model instances and compare where answers converge or diverge.                                                               |
| ask-many-ways          | Generate several prompt variations, run them all, and compare how wording affects the result.                                                                       |
| robustness-stress-test | Run identical, variant, and leading prompts to test stability, sensitivity, and sycophancy.                                                                         |
| blind-review           | Strip identifying information from a document before evaluation, then compare blinded and unblinded assessments to detect prestige or author bias.                  |
| back-of-envelope-brief | Draft or revise a structured technical brief with rough calculations, tables, assumptions, and formatted derivations.                                               |
| prompt-chain           | Run multi-step prompt chains inside an agent conversation, including workflows defined in a chain file.                                                             |
| consensus-check        | Investigate a claim by independently searching for evidence for and against, then synthesise the state of the evidence.                                             |
| model-debate           | Run a structured debate between two models with a moderator, producing a transcript and map of cruxes without declaring a winner.                                   |
| decompose              | Break a complex question into answerable subquestions until each leaf is a search, calculation, lookup, or concrete action.                                         |
| deep-review            | Run a comprehensive document review using parallel roles such as editor, fact-checker, calculation auditor, red team, extensions reviewer, and simulated readers.   |
| diagrams               | Create diagrams, flowcharts, charts, graphs, infographics, and data visualisations for research, papers, or presentations.                                          |
| epistemic-audit        | Chain multiple review methods into one full epistemic audit: adversarial review, consensus check, steelmanning, premise audit, and blind review.                    |
| explore-tree           | Recursively branch out from an input, question, word, or document to map promising directions and unexplored territory.                                             |
| fact-check             | Fact-check research documents by tracing verifiable claims to sources, assessing consensus, and producing severity-rated findings.                                  |
| feedback               | Capture feedback on the tooling, installation, individual skills, bugs, or feature ideas.                                                                           |
| handoff                | Checkpoint an in-flight project into a handoff file so future sessions can resume without losing state.                                                             |
| new-project            | Scaffold a new research project folder with a standard layout for memo, notes, tasks, drafts, research, and code.                                                   |
| premise-audit          | Surface hidden assumptions in an argument and rate how load-bearing each one is.                                                                                    |
| research-sprint        | Run a multi-agent research fan-out and consolidate the results into one research-notes file.                                                                        |
| skill-help             | Print a quick-reference table of available skills and help answer questions about when to use them.                                                                 |
| steelman-duel          | Generate the strongest possible case for each side of a debate using separate agents that cannot see each other's work.                                             |
| style-guide            | Generate or review writing against a house style for abstracts, blog posts, research notes, papers, threads, and public-facing content.                             |