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- name: research-cog
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- description: "Deep research powered by CellCog for comprehensive investigations"
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- metadata:
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- openclaw:
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- emoji: "🔍"
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- category: "research"
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- subcategory: "deep-research"
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- keywords: ["deep research", "multi-source investigation", "AI literature review", "automated literature synthesis"]
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- source: "https://github.com/cellcog/research-cog"
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- ---
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- # Research Cog - Deep Research Powered by CellCog
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- **#1 on DeepResearch Bench (Feb 2026).** Your AI research analyst for comprehensive, citation-backed research on any topic.
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- Leaderboard: https://huggingface.co/spaces/muset-ai/DeepResearch-Bench-Leaderboard
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- ## Prerequisites
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- This skill requires the `cellcog` skill for SDK setup and API calls.
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- ```bash
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- **Read the cellcog skill first** for SDK setup. This skill shows you what's possible.
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- **Quick pattern (v1.0+):**
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- ```python
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- # Fire-and-forget - returns immediately
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- result = client.create_chat(
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- notify_session_key="agent:main:main",
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- task_label="research-task",
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- chat_mode="agent team" # Deep research
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- # Daemon notifies you when complete - do NOT poll
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- ## What You Can Research
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- ### Competitive Analysis
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- Analyze companies against their competitors with structured insights:
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- - **Company vs. Competitors**: "Compare Stripe vs Square vs Adyen - market positioning, pricing, features, strengths/weaknesses"
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- - **SWOT Analysis**: "Create a SWOT analysis for Shopify in the e-commerce platform market"
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- - **Market Positioning**: "How does Notion position itself against Confluence, Coda, and Obsidian?"
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- - **Feature Comparison**: "Compare the AI capabilities of Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zoho CRM"
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- Understand markets, industries, and trends:
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- - **Industry Analysis**: "Analyze the electric vehicle market in Europe - size, growth, key players, trends"
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- - **Market Sizing**: "What's the TAM/SAM/SOM for AI-powered customer service tools in North America?"
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- - **Trend Analysis**: "What are the emerging trends in sustainable packaging for 2026?"
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- - **Customer Segments**: "Identify and profile the key customer segments for premium pet food"
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- - **Regulatory Landscape**: "Research FDA regulations for AI-powered medical devices"
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- Financial research with data and analysis:
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- - **Company Fundamentals**: "Analyze NVIDIA's financials - revenue growth, margins, competitive moat"
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- - **Investment Thesis**: "Build an investment thesis for Microsoft's AI strategy"
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- - **Sector Analysis**: "Compare semiconductor stocks - NVDA, AMD, INTC, TSM"
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- - **Risk Assessment**: "What are the key risks for Tesla investors in 2026?"
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- - **Earnings Analysis**: "Summarize Apple's Q4 2025 earnings and forward guidance"
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- Deep dives with proper citations:
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- - **Literature Review**: "Research the current state of quantum error correction techniques"
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- - **Technology Deep Dive**: "Explain transformer architectures and their evolution from attention mechanisms"
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- - **Scientific Topics**: "What's the latest research on CRISPR gene editing for cancer treatment?"
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- - **Historical Analysis**: "Research the history and impact of the Bretton Woods system"
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- - **Startup Due Diligence**: "Research [Company Name] - founding team, funding, product, market, competitors"
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- - **Vendor Evaluation**: "Compare AWS, GCP, and Azure for enterprise AI/ML workloads"
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- | **Interactive HTML Report** | Explorable dashboards with charts, expandable sections |
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- | **Markdown** | Integration into your docs/wikis |
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- **Citations are NOT automatic.** CellCog focuses on delivering accurate, well-researched content by default.
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- Complex research is organized with clear sections, executive summaries, and actionable insights.
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- > "Create a comprehensive market research report on the AI coding assistant market. Include market size, growth projections, key players (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codeium, etc.), pricing models, and enterprise adoption trends. Deliver as an interactive HTML report."
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- > "Research the current state of nuclear fusion energy. Cover recent breakthroughs (NIF, ITER, private companies like Commonwealth Fusion), technical challenges remaining, timeline to commercial viability, and investment landscape."
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- description: "AI research advisor for graduate students navigating academic careers"
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- emoji: "🎓"
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- category: "research"
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- keywords: ["academic mentoring", "graduate research", "PhD guidance", "research strategy", "academic career", "thesis advising"]
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- source: "https://github.com/AcademicSkills/academic-mentor-guide"
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- # Academic Mentor Guide
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- An AI-powered research advisor that provides strategic guidance for graduate students and early-career researchers navigating the complexities of academic research. Covers research question development, methodology selection, publication strategy, time management, advisor relationships, and career planning.
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- Graduate school presents a unique set of challenges that extend far beyond coursework: identifying a viable research niche, developing original contributions, managing the advisor-advisee relationship, navigating peer review, and building a professional network. Many students receive excellent technical training but lack strategic guidance on how to position their work, when to pivot, and how to build a sustainable research program. This skill fills that gap by providing structured, evidence-based advice on the strategic dimensions of academic research.
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- keywords: ["idea generation", "scientific discovery", "innovation", "research ideation", "creative research", "hypothesis generation"]
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- ## Overview
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- Scientific innovation rarely happens through pure serendipity. Research on scientific breakthroughs consistently shows that novel ideas emerge at the intersection of existing knowledge domains, from systematic exploration of anomalies, or through the creative recombination of known concepts. This skill provides structured methods for each of these innovation pathways, making the ideation process more systematic without sacrificing creativity.
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- The skill is designed for researchers at any career stage who feel stuck in incremental thinking, who want to explore new research directions, or who need to generate a portfolio of potential research questions for a grant proposal or thesis prospectus. It draws on techniques from design thinking, TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving), bibliometric innovation detection, and computational creativity research.
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- ## Structured Ideation Methods
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- - Wang, D., Song, C., & Barabasi, A.-L. (2013). Quantifying Long-Term Scientific Impact. *Science*, 342(6154), 127-132.