Research Summarizer
Skill Verified ActiveStructured research summarization agent skill for non-dev users. Handles academic papers, web articles, reports, and documentation. Extracts key findings, generates comparative analyses, and produces properly formatted citations. Use when: user wants to summarize a research paper, compare multiple sources, extract citations from documents, or create structured research briefs. Plugin for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and OpenClaw.
To streamline the process of understanding and synthesizing research material, enabling users to extract key information, compare sources, and generate formatted citations efficiently.
Features
- Summarize single sources into structured briefs
- Compare multiple sources side-by-side with synthesis
- Extract and format citations in various styles
- Handles academic papers, web articles, reports, and documentation
Use Cases
- When a user wants to summarize a research paper or article.
- When a user needs to compare findings across multiple documents.
- When a user needs to extract and format citations from a document.
- When a user wants to create structured research briefs on a topic.
Non-Goals
- Performing generic 'summarize this' tasks without structure.
- Replacing deep domain expertise; provides structured synthesis.
- Handling highly technical or code-based documentation without clear text sections.
Workflow
- Identify source type
- Extract structured brief
- Assess quality
- Collect sources (for comparison)
- Summarize each source (for comparison)
- Build comparison matrix (for comparison)
- Synthesize findings (for comparison)
- Scan document for references (for citation)
- Extract and format citations (for citation)
- Classify citations (for citation)
Practices
- Research summarization
- Comparative analysis
- Citation management
- Information synthesis
Compliance
- info:GDPRThe skill processes user-provided text, which may contain personal data. While it doesn't submit this data to third parties, the LLM processing itself is a potential point of contact with personal data.
Installation
First, add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills/plugin install research-summarizer@claude-code-skillsQuality Score
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