Use when evaluating academic papers or surveying a research topic. Gathers venue, citations, GitHub stats, social buzz, reproducibility, and author signals to produce a scored markdown report. Triggers: "evaluate paper", "paper review", "research survey", "literature review", "is this paper good", "find papers on", "compare papers", "paper impact"

Use when a repo does not yet have canonical memory, AGENTS.md, or CLAUDE.md. Bootstraps the standard Codex + Claude Code project memory layout in one step. Triggers: "project-mem-init", "bootstrap memory", "initialize project memory"

Use when installing tao-research-skills into a machine's global AI agent configuration. Symlinks every skill into Claude Code and Codex, injects a SessionStart git-pull hook for auto-updates, bootstraps memory, and appends workflow rules. Triggers: "install skills", "install to computer level", "setup skills globally", "meta-init", "cross-platform skills install", "bootstrap skills"

Use when a repo should keep a single memory file in sync with generated AGENTS.md and a thin CLAUDE.md wrapper, or when memory drift needs to be checked or repaired. Triggers: "memory-sync", "sync memory", "AGENTS.md drift", "CLAUDE.md drift"

Use when pushing changes in a repository that contains git submodules, especially when the submodule has its own commits that must not be left stranded. Triggers include "push", "git push", "submodule", "commit submodule", "workspace push"

Use when designing ML training pipelines, data loaders, or inference systems. Enforces engineering discipline — no silent fallbacks, explicit errors on critical paths, config as single source of truth. Triggers: "silent failure", "fallback", "preflight", "assertion", "error handling", "fail fast", "config truth"

Use when writing or improving CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, or any agent instruction file. Covers section structure, memory patterns, workflow rules, and anti-patterns. Triggers: "CLAUDE.md", "AGENTS.md", "agent instructions", "project memory", "MEMORY.md", "instruction file"

Use when running workloads on SURF Snellius supercomputer, including GPU job submission (NVIDIA A100/H100), conda/venv setup, Slurm configuration, and Snellius-specific infrastructure. Triggers: "Snellius", "SURF", "A100", "H100", "Dutch HPC"

Use when running ML training on HPC clusters with Slurm, including job submission, environment setup, monitoring, and failure triage. Applies to any GPU training workload on Slurm-managed clusters. Triggers: "sbatch", "srun", "Slurm", "SBATCH", "job submission", "HPC", "cluster", "walltime", "squeue"

Use when running workloads on LUMI supercomputer, including GPU job submission, PyTorch with ROCm/AMD MI250X, container workflows, and LUMI-specific Slurm configuration. Triggers: "LUMI", "MI250X", "ROCm", "AMD GPU", "CSC", "LUMI-G"

Use when generating images from text prompts via Google's Gemini image models ("nano-banana") with the `google-genai` SDK or OpenRouter. Covers model choice, aspect ratio, prompt patterns, multi-candidate sampling, and retry logic. Triggers: "generate image", "gemini image", "nano-banana", "text to image", "gemini-3-pro-image", "gemini-2.5-flash-image", "imagen", "paper figure generation"

Use when editing, modifying, or composing existing images with Google's Gemini image models ("nano-banana"). Covers single-image edits (add/remove/restyle), multi-image composition (outfit swap, subject-into-scene, style transfer), input encoding, preservation tricks, and iterative refinement. Triggers: "edit image", "gemini edit", "nano-banana edit", "image to image", "image composition", "outfit swap", "subject transfer", "style transfer", "inpaint", "outpaint"

Use when streaming large datasets from tar shards with WebDataset, replacing file-based DataLoaders, or precomputing encoder latents into shards. Triggers: "WebDataset", "tar shards", "wds", "streaming data", "ShardWriter", "latent shards"

Use when integrating W&B experiment tracking into ML training pipelines, including logging strategy, run configuration, and online/offline mode management. Triggers: "W&B", "wandb", "weights and biases", "experiment logging", "wandb.log", "wandb.init", "training dashboard"

Use when structuring ML experiment configs with Hydra, adding new config groups, or debugging config resolution. Applies to any project using Hydra for hyperparameter management. Triggers: "Hydra", "config", "yaml config", "OmegaConf", "config groups", "defaults list", "config override"

Use when curating, uploading, or managing HuggingFace datasets for ML training, including offline caching, preflight verification, and data directory conventions. Triggers: "HuggingFace", "datasets", "push_to_hub", "load_dataset", "HF Hub", "dataset cache"

Use when preparing to launch any remote or multi-GPU ML experiment. Triggers include "preflight", "sanity check", "launch validation", "before training", "GPU check", "dataset check", "environment check"

Use when setting up zsh and Oh My Zsh on a new machine, configuring shell plugins, PATH, or conda initialization. Triggers: "zsh", "zshrc", "Oh My Zsh", "shell config", "dotfiles", "conda init", "PATH"

Use when deploying Next.js apps to Vercel and costs are high, or when setting up a new Vercel project. Covers ISR-breaking patterns, function constraints, caching, Fluid Compute, build optimization. Triggers: "Vercel bill", "Vercel cost", "ISR broken", "dynamic rendering", "cache-control private", "x-vercel-cache MISS", "function invocations", "Fluid Compute", "GB-hours", "s-maxage", "stale-while-revalidate", "maxDuration", "build minutes"

Use when setting up tmux on a new machine, looking up key bindings, debugging terminal colors, or restoring tmux dotfiles. Triggers: "tmux", "terminal multiplexer", "tmux.conf", "pane", "window split", "copy mode", "prefix key"

Use when user says "login", "登录", "fix expired sessions", "refresh login", or needs to re-authenticate CDP browser sessions for any platform. Auto-detects expired platforms and guides interactive re-login via MCP browser tools. Triggers: "login", "登录", "CDP login", "refresh login", "expired session", "re-authenticate"

Use when interacting with GitHub repos, PRs, issues, releases, or API data. Covers gh CLI usage patterns, authentication, and common queries. Triggers: "gh", "github", "pull request", "PR", "issue", "gh api", "gh pr", "gh issue", "github release"

Use when setting up Claude Code on a new machine, configuring permissions, statusline, or plugins. Contains the standard settings.json and statusline script. Triggers: "Claude Code setup", "settings.json", "statusline", "permissions", "plugins", "enabledPlugins", "~/.claude"

Use when extracting Overleaf login cookies from Chrome on macOS for the VSCode Overleaf Workshop extension. Decrypts Chrome's cookie store and outputs the session cookie in the exact format the extension expects. Triggers: "overleaf cookie", "overleaf login", "overleaf workshop cookie", "get overleaf cookie", "vscode overleaf login