OpenLAIR@Dr Claw

Use when a quest needs concrete hypotheses, limitation analysis, candidate directions, or a selected idea relative to the active baseline.

Use when a quest needs problem framing, literature scouting, dataset or metric clarification, or baseline discovery before deeper work.

Use when a quest has enough evidence to draft or refine a paper, report, or research summary without inventing missing support.

Use when a draft, paper, or paper-like report is substantial enough for an independent skeptical audit before finalization, rebuttal, or revision routing.

Search, download, and summarize academic papers from arXiv. Use when user says "search arxiv", "download paper", "fetch arxiv", "arxiv search", "get paper pdf", or wants to find and save papers from arXiv to the local paper library.

ARIS (Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep) infrastructure setup and configuration. Configures MCP servers for cross-model adversarial review, installs Python tools, and validates environment. Run this first before using any other ARIS skills. Use when: setting up ARIS, configuring review servers, "aris setup", "配置ARIS".

Use when a quest needs to attach, import, reproduce, repair, verify, compare, or publish a baseline and its metrics.

Use when the quest needs an explicit go, stop, branch, reuse-baseline, write, finalize, reset, or user-decision transition with reasons and evidence.

Use when the quest is ready to consolidate final claims, limitations, recommendations, summary state, and graph exports before stopping or archiving.

Use when an algorithm-first quest should manage candidate briefs, optimization frontier, branch promotion, or fusion-aware search instead of the paper-oriented default loop.

Use when a quest already has a paper, draft, or review package and the task is to map reviewer feedback into experiments, manuscript deltas, and a durable rebuttal / revision response.

Search existing paper notes by title, author, keyword, or research domain

Autonomous design space exploration loop for computer architecture and EDA. Runs a program, analyzes results, tunes parameters, and iterates until objective is met or timeout. Use when user says "DSE", "design space exploration", "sweep parameters", "optimize", "find best config", or wants iterative parameter tuning.

Workflow 4: Submission rebuttal pipeline. Parses external reviews, enforces coverage and grounding, drafts a safe text-only rebuttal under venue limits, and manages follow-up rounds. Use when user says "rebuttal", "reply to reviewers", "ICML rebuttal", "OpenReview response", or wants to answer external reviews safely.

Rent, manage, and destroy GPU instances on vast.ai. Use when user says "rent gpu", "vast.ai", "rent a server", "cloud gpu", or needs on-demand GPU without owning hardware.

Use when a quest is ready for a concrete implementation pass or a main experiment run tied to a selected idea and an accepted baseline.

Drafting and refining academic rebuttals for top-tier AI/CS conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, AAAI, ARR, KDD, UAI, AISTATS, TMLR, etc.). Use this skill whenever the user needs to respond to reviewer comments, write a rebuttal, handle reviewer feedback, clarify technical misunderstandings, present additional experimental results, or deal with borderline accept/reject decisions. Also trigger when the user mentions keywords like "rebuttal", "reviewer", "review response", "author response", "camera-ready", "rebut", "AC", "area chair", "meta-review", or discusses conference review scores. Trigger for Chinese-language requests too, e.g. "写rebuttal", "回复审稿人", "审稿意见", "rebuttal怎么写", "reviewer说我的baseline不够".

Daily paper recommendation workflow — search arXiv and Semantic Scholar, score and recommend papers

Apply the 21 prose rules from "The Elements of Agent Style" — 12 canonical rules (Strunk, Orwell, Pinker) plus 9 field-observed AI-output patterns. Use when the user says "writing style", "agent style", "apply style rules", "style review", "check my prose", or explicitly invokes /writing-style with an optional draft to revise. For detecting and rewriting AI-specific tells (symbolism inflation, promotional vocabulary, rule of three), prefer /inno-humanizer.

Generate pixel art SVG illustrations for READMEs, docs, or slides. Use when user says "画像素图", "pixel art", "make an SVG illustration", "README hero image", or wants a cute visual.

Remove signs of AI-generated writing from text. Use when editing or reviewing text to make it sound more natural and human-written. Based on Wikipedia's comprehensive "Signs of AI writing" guide. Detects and fixes patterns including: inflated symbolism, promotional language, superficial -ing analyses, vague attributions, em dash overuse, rule of three, AI vocabulary words, negative parallelisms, and excessive conjunctive phrases.

Multi-persona idea evaluation with quality gate. Evaluates ideas across 5 InnoEval dimensions (Clarity, Novelty, Validity, Feasibility, Significance) using 3 reviewer personas and a meta-review. Sits between inno-idea-generation and inno-code-survey in the Idea branch. Use after inno-idea-generation.

Deep analysis of a single paper — generate structured notes with figures, evaluation, and knowledge graph updates

Generate a structured paper outline from review conclusions and experiment results. Use when user says "写大纲", "paper outline", "plan the paper", "论文规划", or wants to create a paper plan before writing.

Use when a quest does not start from a blank state and the agent must first audit, trust-rank, and reconcile existing baselines, results, drafts, or review materials before choosing the next anchor.

Generate/edit images with OpenAI gpt-image-2 by default, falling back to Gemini (gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview) when OPENAI_API_KEY is unset. Supports text-to-image + image-to-image; 1K/2K/4K; use --input-image for editing, --provider to force a provider, --model to override the model.

Draft LaTeX paper section by section from an outline. Use when user says "写论文", "write paper", "draft LaTeX", "开始写", or wants to generate LaTeX content from a paper plan.

Use when a quest needs a polished milestone chart, paper-facing figure, appendix figure, or a mandatory render-inspect-revise pass before treating a figure as final.

Full DeepScientist research pipeline: scout → baseline → idea → experiment → analysis → optimize → write → review → finalize. End-to-end autonomous research lifecycle.

Acquires missing code repositories for the selected idea (Phase A) and conducts comprehensive code survey mapping academic concepts to implementations (Phase B). Outputs acquired_code_repos, updated_prepare_res, and model_survey for downstream use by inno-implementation-plan.

Generate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user says "找idea", "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research area for publishable directions.

Generate publication-quality figures and tables from experiment results. Use when user says "画图", "作图", "generate figures", "paper figures", or needs plots for a paper.

Generate a conference poster (article + tcbposter LaTeX → A0/A1 PDF + editable PPTX + SVG) from a compiled paper. Use when user says "做海报", "制作海报", "conference poster", "make poster", "生成poster", "poster session", or wants to create a poster for a conference presentation.

Generate conference presentation slides (beamer LaTeX → PDF + editable PPTX) from a compiled paper, with speaker notes and full talk script. Use when user says "做PPT", "做幻灯片", "make slides", "conference talk", "presentation slides", "生成slides", "写演讲稿", or wants beamer slides for a conference talk.

Writes rigorous mathematical proofs for ML/AI theory. Use when asked to prove a theorem, lemma, proposition, or corollary, fill in missing proof steps, formalize a proof sketch, 补全证明, 写证明, 证明某个命题, or determine whether a claimed proof can actually be completed under the stated assumptions.

Search and analyze research papers, find related work, summarize key ideas. Use when user says "find papers", "related work", "literature review", "what does this paper say", or needs to understand academic papers.

Multi-source ML dataset discovery. Search HuggingFace Hub, OpenML, GitHub, and paper cross-references for datasets relevant to a research task. Use when asked to "find datasets for", "search ML datasets", "what datasets exist for", or "discover training data for".

Mandatory pre-flight compute resource check before running experiments. Detects whether local/remote GPU or compute resources are actually available. If resources are unavailable, STOPS the experiment pipeline immediately and reports to the user — preventing the model from hallucinating fake experiment results. Use when: about to run experiments, deploy training, or any GPU-intensive task.

Send notifications to Feishu/Lark. Internal utility used by other skills, or manually via /feishu-notify. Supports push-only (webhook) and interactive (bidirectional) modes. Use when user says "发飞书", "notify feishu", or other skills need to send status updates.

Analyze ARIS usage logs and propose optimizations to SKILL.md files, reviewer prompts, and workflow defaults. Outer-loop harness optimization inspired by Meta-Harness (Lee et al., 2026). Use when user says "优化技能", "meta optimize", "improve skills", "分析使用记录", or wants to optimize ARIS's own harness components based on accumulated experience.

Verify research idea novelty against recent literature. Use when user says "查新", "novelty check", "有没有人做过", "check novelty", or wants to verify a research idea is novel before implementing.

Compile LaTeX paper to PDF, fix errors, and verify output. Use when user says "编译论文", "compile paper", "build PDF", "生成PDF", or wants to compile LaTeX into a submission-ready PDF.

Workflow 3: Full paper writing pipeline. Orchestrates paper-plan → paper-figure → paper-write → paper-compile → auto-paper-improvement-loop to go from a narrative report to a polished, submission-ready PDF. Use when user says "写论文全流程", "write paper pipeline", "从报告到PDF", "paper writing", or wants the complete paper generation workflow.

Persistent research knowledge base that accumulates papers, ideas, experiments, claims, and their relationships across the entire research lifecycle. Inspired by Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern. Use when user says "知识库", "research wiki", "add paper", "wiki query", "查知识库", or wants to build/query a persistent field map.

Comprehensive research assistant that synthesizes information from multiple sources with citations. Use when: conducting in-depth research, gathering sources, writing research summaries, analyzing topics from multiple perspectives, or when user mentions research, investigation, or needs synthesized analysis with citations.

Creates formal academic research papers following IEEE/ACM formatting standards with proper structure, citations, and scholarly writing style. Use when the user asks to write a research paper, academic paper, or conference paper on any topic.

Read the latest news feed results (server/data/news-results-*.json), cluster items by topic, and generate grounded research idea seeds with citations. Use when the user wants to turn their daily news into actionable ideation proposals, or when invoked by the proactive research scout (Option C).

Draft a structured grant proposal from research ideas and literature. Supports KAKENHI (Japan), NSF (US), NSFC (China, including 面上/青年/优青/杰青/海外优青/重点), ERC (EU), DFG (Germany), SNSF (Switzerland), ARC (Australia), NWO (Netherlands), and generic formats. Use when user says "write grant", "grant proposal", "申請書", "write KAKENHI", "科研費", "基金申请", "写基金", "NSF proposal", or wants to turn research ideas into a funding application.

Workflow 1: Full idea discovery pipeline. Orchestrates research-lit → idea-creator → novelty-check → research-review to go from a broad research direction to validated, pilot-tested ideas. Use when user says "找idea全流程", "idea discovery pipeline", "从零开始找方向", or wants the complete idea exploration workflow.

Deploy and run ML experiments on local, remote, Vast.ai, or Modal serverless GPU. Use when user says "run experiment", "deploy to server", "跑实验", or needs to launch training jobs.

Profile a target (script, process, GPU, memory, interconnect) using external tools and code instrumentation. Produces structured performance reports with actionable recommendations. Use when user says "profile", "benchmark", "bottleneck", or wants performance analysis.

Periodically check WandB metrics during training to catch problems early (NaN, loss divergence, idle GPUs). Avoids wasting GPU hours on broken runs. Use when training is running and you want automated health checks.

Creates implementation plan, writes project code with judge feedback loop, and submits final experiment run. Use after code-survey in both Idea and Plan branches.

Help professors and researchers write, revise, adapt, and polish grant proposals for US agencies (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, NASA) and Chinese agencies (NSFC 国自然). Use this skill whenever the user mentions grants, proposals, funding applications, 基金申请, 本子, R01, R21, CAREER, 面上, 青年基金, specific aims, 立项依据, broader impacts, or wants to plan, draft, review, or resubmit any research funding proposal — even if they don't explicitly say "grant". Also use this skill when the user wants to adapt a previous proposal for a new submission. Six-phase workflow: profiling → planning → drafting → quality review → simulated peer review → submission prep.

Structured manuscript/grant review with checklist-based evaluation. Use when writing formal peer reviews with specific criteria methodology assessment, statistical validity, reporting standards compliance (CONSORT/STROBE), and constructive feedback. Best for actual review writing, manuscript revision. For evaluating claims/evidence quality use scientific-critical-thinking; for quantitative scoring frameworks use scholar-evaluation.

Analyze ML experiment results, compute statistics, generate comparison tables and insights. Use when user says "analyze results", "compare", or needs to interpret experimental data.

Communications-domain literature review with Claude-style knowledge-base-first retrieval. Use when the task is about communications, wireless, networking, satellite/NTN, Wi-Fi, cellular, transport protocols, congestion control, routing, scheduling, MAC/PHY, rate adaptation, channel estimation, beamforming, or communication-system research and the user wants papers, related work, a survey, or a landscape summary. Search Zotero, Obsidian, and local paper folders first when available, then search IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, ACM Digital Library, and broader web in that order.

Turn a refined research proposal or method idea into a detailed, claim-driven experiment roadmap. Use after `aris-research-refine`, or when the user asks for a detailed experiment plan, ablation matrix, evaluation protocol, run order, compute budget, or paper-ready validation that supports the core problem, novelty, simplicity, and any LLM / VLM / Diffusion / RL-based contribution.

Generate Mermaid diagrams from user requirements. Saves .mmd and .md files to figures/ directory with syntax verification. Supports flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, ER diagrams, Gantt charts, and 18 more diagram types.

Turn a vague research direction into a problem-anchored, elegant, frontier-aware, implementation-oriented method plan via iterative GPT-5.4 review. Use when the user says "refine my approach", "帮我细化方案", "decompose this problem", "打磨idea", "refine research plan", "细化研究方案", or wants a concrete research method that stays simple, focused, and top-venue ready instead of a vague or overbuilt idea.