Review Paper
maxwell2732/my-submission-formatting-agent
Comprehensive manuscript review covering argument structure, methodology, citation completeness, writing quality, and potential referee objections.
Stable, deterministic social-science research-paper pipeline from idea or data to verified manuscript, citations, replication package, and final md/docx/tex/pdf outputs.
Install Scholar Auto Research
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-auto-research -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-auto-research --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research .claude/skills/scholar-auto-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "scholar-auto-research" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research into .claude/skills/scholar-auto-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-auto-research", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-researchType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-auto-research -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-auto-research --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research .agents/skills/scholar-auto-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-auto-research" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research into .agents/skills/scholar-auto-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-auto-research", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-auto-research -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-auto-research --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research .cursor/skills/scholar-auto-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "scholar-auto-research" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research into .cursor/skills/scholar-auto-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-auto-research", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git --path .claude/skills/scholar-auto-research--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-auto-research -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-auto-research --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research .gemini/skills/scholar-auto-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-auto-research" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research into .gemini/skills/scholar-auto-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-auto-research", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-auto-researchInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-auto-research -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research .github/skills/scholar-auto-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-auto-research" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research into .github/skills/scholar-auto-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-auto-research", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-auto-research -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-auto-research --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research .opencode/skills/scholar-auto-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-auto-research" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research into .opencode/skills/scholar-auto-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-auto-research", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
scholar-auto-research- GitHub stars
- 168
- Token cost
- ~21k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 10,022 words
- Files
- 265 (incl. scripts, references)
- Skills in repo
- 30
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Stable, deterministic social-science research-paper pipeline from idea or data to verified manuscript, citations, replication package, and final md/docx/tex/pdf outputs.
- Works in 12 steps: Safety And Run Mode → Research Question Formation → Literature And Theory → …
- The user wants a reliable end-to-end auto-research chain that avoids the evolving scholar-full-paper workflow
- SKILL.md covers Operating Rule, MUST FOLLOW RULE, Context Management and Default Chain, plus 23 more sections
- Calls bash and python3
What it does
Scholar Auto Research is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Stable, deterministic social-science research-paper pipeline from idea or data to verified manuscript, citations, replication package, and final md/docx/tex/pdf outputs. Use when the user wants a reliable end-to-end auto-research chain that avoids the evolving scholar-full-paper workflow.
Its SKILL.md is about 21k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 265 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/agent-trace-contract.md`, `references/analysis-plan-contract.md` and `references/analysis-premortem-contract.md`).
It sits in Documents & Office, covering Citation management, Word documents and LaTeX. It works with Microsoft Word. The repository describes itself as: Open scholar skill, a claude code plugin, for academic research.
When your agent uses it
- The user wants a reliable end-to-end auto-research chain that avoids the evolving scholar-full-paper workflow
- Tasks that involve Citation management
- Tasks that involve Word documents
Example prompts
- “/scholar-auto-research”
Workflow steps
12 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
- Safety And Run Mode
- Research Question Formation
- Literature And Theory
- Design
- Data And Measurement
- Analysis Plan
- Fixing Function
- Analysis Premortem
- Execute Analysis
- Post-Execution Review
- Runtime Sanity
- Results Lock
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6e5ac8e. 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
Ships 1 file in scripts/, which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
bashpython3
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
agents.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
Scholar Auto Research loads about 21k tokens when it runs, and up to ~104k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 10,022 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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); the scripts in this folder 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 10,022 words (~21,306 tokens).
“Stable default pipeline for one defensible social-science paper. This skill is intentionally smaller than scholar-full-paper: no grants, presentations, resubmission, teaching, monitoring, or auto-improve in the default route.”
- name
- scholar-auto-research
- tools
- Read, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch, Task, Write, Glob, Agent
- argument-hint
- [research idea OR data/codebook paths | resume <project-dir> | verify <project-dir>]
- user-invocable
- true
Files
SKILL.md and 264 other files (scripts, references) in .claude/skills/scholar-auto-research of joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.
- SKILL.md
- references/agent-trace-contract.md
- references/analysis-plan-contract.md
- references/analysis-premortem-contract.md
- references/artifact-contract.md
- references/citation-claim-contract.md
- references/contract-migrations.json
- references/data-measurement-contract.md
- references/data-safety-runtime.md
- references/design-contract.md
- references/documentation-registry.json
- references/ethics-open-science-contract.md
- references/execution-contract.md
- references/final-assembly-contract.md
- references/journal-profile-resolution-templates.json
- references/literature-theory-contract.md
- references/manuscript-blueprint-contract.md
- references/manuscript-drafting-contract.md
- references/phase-contract.json
- references/phase-contract.md
- … and 245 more
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e5ac8e
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scholar Auto Research this skilljoshzyj/open-scholar-skill | 168 | — | ~21k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Review Papermaxwell2732/my-submission-formatting-agent | 111 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Academic Paperbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.6k | — | ~7.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Latex To Word Workflowhajimi-kun/latex-to-word-workflow | 128 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Scipilot Cite Skillfranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Thu ThesisLeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills | 2.2k | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Scholar Auto Research
What does Scholar Auto Research do?
Stable, deterministic social-science research-paper pipeline from idea or data to verified manuscript, citations, replication package, and final md/docx/tex/pdf outputs. Scholar Auto Research is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Stable, deterministic social-science research-paper pipeline from idea or data to verified manuscript, citations, replication package, and final md/docx/tex/pdf outputs.
When should I use Scholar Auto Research?
Scholar Auto Research fits situations like: the user wants a reliable end-to-end auto-research chain that avoids the evolving scholar-full-paper workflow; tasks that involve Citation management; tasks that involve Word documents.
How do I install Scholar Auto Research in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-auto-research -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .claude/skills/scholar-auto-research in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Scholar Auto Research in Codex?
Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-auto-research -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-auto-research in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .agents/skills/scholar-auto-research in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Scholar Auto Research 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 joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-auto-research -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/scholar-auto-research, .gemini/skills/scholar-auto-research, .github/skills/scholar-auto-research and .opencode/skills/scholar-auto-research in your project.
What does Scholar Auto Research need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Scholar Auto Research needs the command-line tools its instructions call (bash and python3).
Does Scholar Auto Research access the network?
SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: agents.md. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Scholar Auto Research 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.
What licence does Scholar Auto Research use?
Scholar Auto Research 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 Scholar Auto Research use?
About 21k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 85k 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 83k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Scholar Auto Research?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Scholar Auto Research: Review Paper (maxwell2732/my-submission-formatting-agent, 111 stars), Academic Paper (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.6k stars), Latex To Word Workflow (hajimi-kun/latex-to-word-workflow, 128 stars) and Scipilot Cite Skill (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Scholar Auto Research?
joshzyj (a GitHub user) maintains it in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill, which has 168 GitHub stars. The repository holds 30 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 18, 2026.
Source: joshzyj/open-scholar-skill on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.