# Supervisor-Skills

> A PhD-level academic research methodology distilled into eleven structured skills, covering research discovery, idea evaluation, paper planning, drafting, polishing, figure design and reconstruction, pre-submission review, and AI-assisted research workflow. Usable as a standalone Chinese curriculum at `handbook/`, as an English mirror at `handbook-en/`, or as Agent Skills under `skills/`.

Target audience: researchers writing papers for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, VLDB, SIGMOD, KDD, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, and similar top venues.

## Install

Paste the following prompt into your AI assistant:

```
Help me install every skill under the skills/ directory from https://github.com/HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills. Treat each directory containing SKILL.md as a separate skill; do not install the repository root as one skill. If you are Codex, use $skill-installer.
```

To install only Draw.io reconstruction:

```
Use $skill-installer to install https://github.com/HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills/tree/main/skills/drawio-reconstruction.
```

See [README.md](README.md) (Chinese) or [README.en.md](README.en.md) for full details.

## Skills (v2.1.0)

Eleven anchor skills under `skills/` cover the full paper lifecycle.

- [deep-research](skills/deep-research/SKILL.md): survey-grade literature investigation with multi-perspective search, per-citation verification, MECE synthesis, and a report that answers explicit research questions.
- [idea-evaluator](skills/idea-evaluator/SKILL.md): scores a research idea on the five-dimension framework (Higher / Faster / Stronger / Cheaper / Broader) plus lifecycle-capability matching, fatal-flaws audit, and paradigm-shift probe; non-STEM ideas route to substitute frameworks.
- [vibe-research-workflow](skills/vibe-research-workflow/SKILL.md): Vibe Coding, Vibe Figure, Vibe Writing tool choice and six behavioral rules for AI-assisted research.
- [tech-paper-template](skills/tech-paper-template/SKILL.md): technical-paper thinking table with four self-consistency checks and Technique vs New Problem positioning.
- [intro-drafter](skills/intro-drafter/SKILL.md): six paragraphs of Introduction prose from the six-paragraph flowchart, with retrieval-verified citations; outline mode on request.
- [paper-writer](skills/paper-writer/SKILL.md): evidence-gated drafting of any paper section or a full manuscript; every claim traces to the author's materials or verified retrieval, citations pass an independent verification ladder.
- [benchmark-paper-template](skills/benchmark-paper-template/SKILL.md): benchmark-paper five-pillar audit, six-part Introduction logic chain, Section 2-7 skeleton, and pre-submission checklist.
- [paper-polish](skills/paper-polish/SKILL.md): meaning-preserving language polish, AI-tone removal, claim calibration, and Chinese-to-English rewriting, with meaning-risk edits flagged.
- [figure-designer](skills/figure-designer/SKILL.md): paradigm selection and quality audit for motivated-example, solution-overview, and experimental-results figures.
- [drawio-reconstruction](skills/drawio-reconstruction/SKILL.md): rebuilds reference images, paper figures, and screenshots into editable Draw.io files with PNG previews and visual audits.
- [pre-submission-reviewer](skills/pre-submission-reviewer/SKILL.md): paradigm-aware reviewer self-check covering macro logic, writing detail, grammar, LaTeX format, and figure quality, with retrieval-grounded novelty and citation-completeness checks.

## Reader curriculum

The original Chinese curriculum by the methodology author lives at `handbook/`. An English mirror lives at `handbook-en/`. Both are organized into six chapters.

- `handbook/01_Preliminary/` — evaluating paper quality from a reviewer's perspective.
- `handbook/02_Idea_Generation/` — idea lifecycle, five-dimension thinking, disruptive innovation.
- `handbook/03_Paper_Writing/` — paper lifecycle, Introduction flowchart, technical and benchmark templates, writing checklist.
- `handbook/04_Scientific_Plotting/` — motivated, overview, experimental figures and a drawing checklist.
- `handbook/05_Vibe_Research/` — AI-assisted research workflow and practitioner notes.
- `handbook/06_Case_Studies/` — Alpha-SQL (ICML 2025), AFlow (ICLR 2025), LEAD (VLDB 2026) Introduction analyses.

## Supporting documentation

- [Contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md): how to contribute.
- [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md): version history.
- [License](LICENSE): CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
