Research briefing
Skill papersflow-ai/papersflow-skills/skills/research-briefing
Reusable PapersFlow research skills for literature search, citation graph exploration, and DeepScan monitoring powered by papersflow-mcp.
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Build a focused literature and citation briefing from PapersFlow. Use when the user wants paper search, citation verification, related-paper discovery, or citation graph exploration.
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Research Briefing
Use this skill when a user wants a high-signal research briefing grounded in the hosted papersflow-mcp server.
Workflow
- Resolve the user's target topic, title, DOI, or seed paper.
- Start with
search_literaturefor broad discovery. - Use
verify_citationwhen the user gives a citation string, DOI, URL, PubMed ID, arXiv ID, or uncertain bibliographic reference. - Use
find_related_paperswhen the user wants nearby work around a seed paper. - Use
get_citation_graphwhen the user wants a graph view with references, incoming citations, and optionally similar papers. - Use
get_paper_neighborswhen the user wants a one-hop grouped view instead of a graph-first view. - Use
expand_citation_graphonly after you already have seed node ids from a previous graph result. - Use
fetchwhen the user wants a richer single-paper record after search or graph exploration.
Output Style
- Prefer short grouped sections over long prose.
- Include paper titles, years, identifiers, and why they matter.
- If the user asked for a graph-oriented answer, explicitly distinguish:
- references
- later citations
- similar papers
- If the graph result looks noisy, say so instead of pretending the neighborhood is authoritative.
Tool Guidance
Use search_literature
Use for:
- topic exploration
- early-stage paper discovery
- short lists of candidate seed papers
Use verify_citation
Use for:
- checking a citation string
- normalizing a DOI or paper URL
- producing a reliable paper identifier before deeper exploration
Use get_citation_graph
Use for:
- seed-centered graph exploration
- showing how a paper connects to prior and later work
Prefer this when the user explicitly asks for a graph, network, map, or influence chain.
Use get_paper_neighbors
Use for:
- concise grouped neighbors
- "show me the references / citations / similar papers" requests
Prefer this over the graph tool when the user cares more about grouped lists than graph structure.
Use expand_citation_graph
Use only when:
- you already have valid node ids from a previous graph result
- the user wants to grow the graph one hop farther
Do not guess node ids.
Examples
- User asks: "Find five strong papers on retrieval-augmented generation evaluation and tell me which one to start with."
- User asks: "Verify this citation and give me a normalized version."
- User asks: "Show me the citation graph around Attention Is All You Need."
- User asks: "Expand the graph from these two node ids and tell me where the important branches are."