Research Summarizer
Research Summarizer is a structured workflow that turns dense source material—academic papers, web articles, reports, and documentation—into actionable briefs. It extracts key findings, generates comparative analyses across multiple sources, and produces properly formatted citations in styles like APA, IEEE, and Chicago.
✨ What it does
- Provides source-type-specific summary templates (academic, article, report, documentation).
- Includes a quality assessment framework rating credibility, evidence, recency, and objectivity.
- Builds comparison matrices and synthesis briefs for multi-source analysis.
- Extracts citations via a CLI script with deduplication and multiple output formats.
- Flags proactive issues like missing dates, contradictions, and incomplete citations.
- Offers a verification loop to ensure claims are anchored and nothing is invented.
🎯 When to use it
- When a user wants to summarize a single research paper, article, or report they have on hand.
- When comparing 2-5 documents to identify consensus, disagreements, and gaps.
- When extracting and formatting citations from a document in a specific style.
- When creating a structured research brief or literature review from provided sources.
🚀 How to use
Trigger the skill by requesting a summary, comparison, citation extraction, or research brief on a document you provide. Paste or attach the source text. The skill will scaffold a structured brief using templates and optionally run scripts for citation extraction. Example prompts:
Summarize this paper: [paste text]
Compare these two articles: [paste text 1] and [paste text 2]
Extract citations in IEEE format from this document: [paste text]
📄 Output: The skill produces structured research briefs, comparison matrices, synthesis reports, and formatted citation lists.
📦 Add this skill to Claude Code
# 1. Get the skills repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills /tmp/claude-skills
# 2. Copy this skill into your project (or ~/.claude/skills for all projects)
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/product-team/research-summarizer/skills/research-summarizer .claude/skills/research-summarizerSkill source: product-team/research-summarizer/skills/research-summarizer/SKILL.md
⚠️ Good to know
The skill only works with documents the user already has; it does not perform web searches or find new sources.
❓ FAQ
What source types does the skill support?
It supports academic papers, web articles, technical reports, and documentation, each with a tailored summary template.
Can it handle multiple sources at once?
Yes, it supports multi-source comparison for 2-5 documents, producing a comparison matrix and synthesis brief.
What citation formats are available?
APA 7 (default), IEEE, Chicago, Harvard, and MLA 9 are supported via the citation extraction script.
🤖 Overview, features, install steps and FAQ were generated from the project's SKILL.md on Sep 4, 2026. Always check the original source before running commands.