Orchestrator for the full academic research pipeline: research - write - integrity check - review - revise - re-review - re-revise - final integrity check - finalize.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Academic Pipeline

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-pipeline -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills academic-pipeline --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/24-Imbad0202-academic-research-skills/academic-pipeline .claude/skills/academic-pipeline && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
academic-pipeline
GitHub stars
4.6k
Token cost
~11k tokens
SKILL.md length
3,236 words
Files
13 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Orchestrator for the full academic research pipeline: research - write - integrity check - review - revise - re-review - re-revise - final integrity check - finalize.

  • Works in 12 steps: INTAKE & DETECTION → MODE RECOMMENDATION → STAGE EXECUTION → …
  • : academic pipeline
  • SKILL.md covers Quick Start, Trigger Conditions, Pipeline Stages (10 Stages) and Pipeline State Machine, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Academic Pipeline is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Orchestrator for the full academic research pipeline: research - write - integrity check - review - revise - re-review - re-revise - final integrity check - finalize. Coordinates deep-research, academic-paper, and academic-paper-reviewer into a seamless 9-stage workflow with mandatory integrity verification, two-stage peer review, and reproducible quality gates. Triggers on: academic pipeline, research to paper, full paper workflow, paper pipeline, end-to-end paper, research-to-publication, complete paper workflow.

Its SKILL.md is about 11k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 16 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/integrity_verification_agent.md`, `agents/pipeline_orchestrator_agent.md` and `agents/state_tracker_agent.md`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering Deep research and Quality gates. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库,覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…

When your agent uses it

  • : academic pipeline
  • Research to paper
  • Full paper workflow
  • End-to-end paper

Example prompts

  • “/academic-pipeline”

Workflow steps

12 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. INTAKE & DETECTION
  2. MODE RECOMMENDATION
  3. STAGE EXECUTION
  4. TRANSITION
  5. 5: First Integrity Check (Pre-Review Integrity)
  6. 5: Final Integrity Check (Post-Revision Final Check)
  7. First Review (Full Review)
  8. > 4 Transition: Revision Coaching
  9. ': Second Review (Verification Review)
  10. ' -> 4' Transition: Residual Coaching
  11. Intake and Structuring
  12. Strategic Revision Coaching (External Revision Coaching)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Academic Pipeline loads about 11k tokens when it runs, and up to ~22k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 137 tokens; SKILL.md has 3,236 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~137
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~11k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~22k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 3,236 words (~10,602 tokens).

“A lightweight orchestrator that manages the complete academic pipeline from research exploration to final manuscript. It does not perform substantive work — it only detects stages, recommends modes, dispatches skills, manages transitions, and tracks state.”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
academic-pipeline
metadata.version
2.7
metadata.last_updated
2026-03-27
metadata.depends_on
deep-research, academic-paper, academic-paper-reviewer

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 12 other files (references) in skills/24-Imbad0202-academic-research-skills/academic-pipeline of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/integrity_verification_agent.md
  • agents/pipeline_orchestrator_agent.md
  • agents/state_tracker_agent.md
  • examples/full_pipeline_example.md
  • examples/integrity_failure_recovery.md
  • examples/mid_entry_example.md
  • references/claim_verification_protocol.md
  • references/mode_advisor.md
  • references/pipeline_state_machine.md
  • references/plagiarism_detection_protocol.md
  • references/team_collaboration_protocol.md
  • templates/pipeline_status_template.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Academic Pipeline

What does Academic Pipeline do?

Orchestrator for the full academic research pipeline: research - write - integrity check - review - revise - re-review - re-revise - final integrity check - finalize. Academic Pipeline is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Orchestrator for the full academic research pipeline: research - write - integrity check - review - revise - re-review - re-revise - final integrity check - finalize.

When should I use Academic Pipeline?

Academic Pipeline fits situations like: : academic pipeline; research to paper; full paper workflow; end-to-end paper.

How do I install Academic Pipeline in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-pipeline -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/24-Imbad0202-academic-research-skills/academic-pipeline in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/academic-pipeline in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Academic Pipeline in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-pipeline -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/24-Imbad0202-academic-research-skills/academic-pipeline in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/academic-pipeline in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Academic Pipeline in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-pipeline -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/academic-pipeline, .gemini/skills/academic-pipeline, .github/skills/academic-pipeline and .opencode/skills/academic-pipeline in your project.

What does Academic Pipeline need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Academic Pipeline is instructions for the agent only.

Does Academic Pipeline access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Academic Pipeline safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Academic Pipeline use?

Academic Pipeline has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Academic Pipeline use?

About 11k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 42k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 12k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Academic Pipeline?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Academic Pipeline: Skill Expert Skills (LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills, 2.2k stars), Auto Review Loop (appleweiping/WEIPING_WIKI, 119 stars), GitHub Deep Research (bytedance/deer-flow, 84k stars) and Deep Research Workflow (TokenRhythm/opensquilla, 7.1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Academic Pipeline?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,556 GitHub stars. The repository holds 383 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.