Scholar Evaluation

Name: Scholar Evaluation
Author: microck

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microck·vlatest·writing

This skill analyzes text to assess its scholarly quality – helpful for verifying research and identifying credible sources.

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$ npx skills add microck/ordinary-claude-skills --skill scholar-evaluation -a claude-code

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scanned 30 Sept 2026

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About this skill

What it does

The microck-scholar-evaluation skill allows an AI agent to assess and summarize academic papers. It can extract key findings, identify limitations, and provide a concise overview of research articles based on provided text or URLs. This facilitates quicker comprehension and analysis of scholarly work.

When to use it

Literature Reviews: Quickly synthesize information from multiple research papers for background reading or literature review writing.
Research Selection: Evaluate the relevance and quality of potential papers before committing to a full read.
Understanding Complex Topics: Get a digestible summary of academic articles when lacking deep expertise in the field.
Staying Updated: Keep abreast of new research findings without having to read every paper in detail.

Key capabilities

Paper summarization
Identification of key findings
Limitation identification
Concise overview generation

Example prompts

"Summarize the following research paper: [paste text of abstract and introduction]"
“Evaluate this article for its strengths and weaknesses: [URL to a research paper]"
"Give me a concise overview of the key findings in this paper: [paste full paper content]"

Tips & gotchas

The skill’s effectiveness depends on the quality and completeness of the provided text or URL. Longer, more detailed papers will generally yield better results than short abstracts.