Research-direction and lit-review plugin for Cowork.
Grills a half-formed idea into a defensible research question, runs a PRISMA-audited review, ships a synthesis chapter you'd defend. For doctoral researchers and grad students.
Skills 14 in the Claude listing
audit Use when the user asks for the audit trail, PRISMA flow, or a record of what happened during the review. contradictions Use when the user asks where papers disagree, wants to surface contradictions, or is preparing a "limits of the evidence" section. extract Use when the user asks to pull full text of kept papers, extract methods/findings, or populate evidence from PDFs. Grill question Use when the user has a topic and a clear intent to write a research-paper-shaped artifact (paper, chapter, dissertation, conference talk, EdD/DBA capstone) but doesn't yet have a defensible research publish Use when the user asks for a podcast, slide deck, mind map, or video of a finished review. render Use when the user has a finished synthesis (synthesis.md + corpus.jsonl + evidence.jsonl) and wants a click-to-source viewer they can open in the Cowork sidebar, share with their advisor, or paste int Research direction Use when the user has a research topic but doesn't yet know what they want from engaging with it — could be a podcast, a paper, a chapter, a strategy memo, a teaching module, or just clearer thinking. review Use when the user asks to run a lit review on a topic or research question end-to-end ("run a lit review on caffeine and working memory", "do a literature review for me on X"). scope Use when the user asks to scope, frame, or plan a literature review before searching begins, OR when invoked by review, OR when search finds no scope object. screen Use after search when the user wants to apply inclusion/exclusion criteria (year range, language, must-include/exclude keywords) to the corpus. search Use when the user asks to find/search/discover papers on a topic, wants candidate sources, or is populating/extending the corpus. setup Use on first run, when the user asks "set up Scriptorium", "what does this plugin do", or "configure Scriptorium". synthesize Use when the user asks to draft a literature review section, write a synthesis, or summarize the evidence. Using scriptorium Use when the user mentions a literature review, asks to find/screen/synthesize/draft research, or starts a Scriptorium session.