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Add research agent skills that stop invented citations and follow journal rules

A team open-sourced more than 280 research agent skills aimed at the ways agents fail at academic work: invented citations, generic writing and ignoring current journal rules. They install with one npx command into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and more.

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@sayan_ai on X · 2026-10-19

Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-19.

What they did

A team open-sourced more than 280 research agent skills aimed at the ways agents fail at academic work: invented citations, generic writing and ignoring current journal rules. They install with one npx command into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and more.

Result (as claimed)

Open source on GitHub.

Tools they used

Cost: Claude Code: from $17/mo; OpenAI Codex: free plan, paid from $8/mo; Cursor: free plan, paid from $8/mo.

Set it up

  1. Gather your sources

    Collect the papers, notes, links or files you want to work from in one place.

  2. Load them into the tool

    Open Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and add your sources. Keep the original files so you can check claims later.

  3. Ask focused questions

    Ask for summaries, comparisons or connections with citations to the source passages.

  4. Verify and save

    Spot check claims against the sources, then save the output as notes you can reuse.

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Goal: Add research agent skills that stop invented citations and follow journal rules
What the original author did: A team open-sourced more than 280 research agent skills aimed at the ways agents fail at academic work: invented citations, generic writing and ignoring current journal rules. They install with one npx command into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and more.
Reported result (as claimed by the author): Open source on GitHub.
Source: https://x.com/sayan_ai/status/2112130453889249353
Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
Category: Research & learning

Please:
1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like).
2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure.
3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data.
4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.

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