Supervisor-Skills: a decade of PhD supervision distilled into AI skills
HKUST researchers packaged a decade of PhD supervision experience into eleven executable agent skills covering the full paper lifecycle, from idea evaluation to pre-submission review.
Why it matters
Turns tacit supervisor judgment into installable skills any coding agent can run, with evidence-gated drafting that forbids fabricated citations.
What you could build with it
A research lab could build a pre-submission review service that runs these skills over a draft manuscript and returns a reviewer-style report with severity-tagged findings before the paper is submitted.
Does it hold up?
Real and usable: the skills are plain SKILL.md files that drop into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, and the repo has drawn thousands of stars since its April release.
Built with Supervisor-Skills
- dungnotnull/self-learning-academic-research-agentgithub · 4 ★ · A self-learning academic research agent that integrates Supervisor-Skills as its research skill knowledge base.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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