GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Fully automatic AI research agent for Geoscientists, Remote Sensing researchers, and GIScientists. Features harness engineering, GeoBenchmark (OLS/GWR/MGWR), journal templates, and MCP servers.

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39Mods indexed here, across every type
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auto-review-loop

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Adversarial iterative review loop with generator-evaluator separation. Up to 4 rounds of independent review, improvement, and re-evaluation. Persists state to output/REVIEWSTATE.json for recovery. Stop: score ≥ 7.5/10 on all dimensions, or 4 rounds. Writes full history to output/AUTOREVIEWREPORT.md.

not rated 103 4mo ago A 0 tokens

data-download

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Discover, evaluate, and download publicly available datasets from the internet. Infers data needs from a research question or task, selects authoritative sources, downloads reproducibly, validates file integrity, and documents provenance. Pauses for user input when authentication, API keys, or major tradeoffs require…

not rated 103 4mo ago A 98 tokens

deploy-experiment

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Deploy and run experiments for ML/DL training (local, remote, or Modal GPU) AND spatial data science / GIScience experiments (local, data-driven). Reads from output/refine-logs/EXPERIMENTPLAN.md and output/refine-logs/FINALPROPOSAL.md, writes to output/experiment/. Use when user says "run experiment", "deploy…

not rated 103 4mo ago A 95 tokens

GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Run an end-to-end workflow that chains the skills refine-research and experiment-design. Use when the user wants a one-shot pipeline from vague research direction to focused final proposal plus detailed experiment roadmap, or asks to build a pipeline, do it end-to-end, or generate both the method and experiment plan…

not rated 103 4mo ago A 71 tokens

experiment-design

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Turn a refined GIScience / remote sensing / spatial data science proposal into a detailed, claim-driven experiment roadmap. Use after refine-research, or when the user asks for a detailed experiment plan, ablation matrix, spatial evaluation protocol, run order, compute budget, or paper-ready validation that supports…

not rated 103 4mo ago A 75 tokens

full-pipeline

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Complete 4-stage end-to-end research pipeline. Orchestrates idea-discovery-pipeline → deploy-experiment → auto-review-loop → generate-report. Reads RESEARCHPLAN.md (or BRIEF.md as fallback) for context that overrides $ARGUMENTS.

not rated 103 4mo ago A 56 tokens

generate-idea

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Generate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user input "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research area for publishable directions.

not rated 103 4mo ago A 47 tokens

generate-report

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Consolidates literature review, idea discovery, refined proposal, experiment plan, experiment results, and automated review into a single NARRATIVEREPORT.md that is rich enough to drive the downstream paper-writing-pipeline (paper-plan → paper-figure-generate → paper-draft → paper-review-loop → paper-convert).

not rated 103 4mo ago A 66 tokens

GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

The full pipeline for idea generation. It generates 8-12 novel research ideas from literature gaps and evaluates each on novelty, feasibility, and domain fit. Orchestrates lit-review → generate-idea → novelty-check → idea-review → experiment-design-pipeline to go from a broad research direction to a validated…

not rated 103 4mo ago A 93 tokens

research-review

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Get a deep critical review of research idea from GPT via Codex MCP. Use when user says "review my idea", "help me review", "get external review", or wants critical feedback on research ideas, papers, or experimental results.

not rated 103 4mo ago A 51 tokens

lit-review

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Retrieves papers from local folder or ArXiv and Semantic Scholar using domain-aware keyword expansion, builds synthesis matrix, identifies gaps. Calls tools/arxivfetch.py and tools/semanticscholarfetch.py. Writes to output/paper-cache/ and output/LITREVIEWREPORT.md.

not rated 103 4mo ago B 61 tokens

novelty-check

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Validates that a research idea is genuinely novel vs. existing literature. Searches ArXiv, Semantic Scholar, and WebSearch for near-duplicate work. Produces a novelty verdict and evidence. Run on each idea from idea-discovery-pipeline before investing in experiments.

not rated 103 4mo ago A 59 tokens

paper-covert

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Converts the final Markdown manuscript from paper-draft / paper-review-loop into a submission package for the target venue — modular LaTeX (one file per section), compiled PDF, and Word .docx. Venue is read from output/PAPERPLAN.md (or argument) and routed through a small YAML profile. Does not rewrite prose, score…

not rated 103 4mo ago A 84 tokens

paper-draft

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Transforms output/PAPERPLAN.md into a journal-quality Markdown manuscript draft for GIScience, GeoAI, spatial data science, and remote sensing venues (IJGIS, ISPRS JPRS, RSE, TGIS, AAG Annals). Consults referenced literature, experiment, figure, and claim artifacts; supports full drafts, partial drafts, and skeleton…

not rated 103 4mo ago A 104 tokens

GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Generates publication-quality figures and diagrams from output/PAPERPLAN.md for GIScience, GeoAI, and remote sensing journals (IJGIS, ISPRS JPRS, RSE, TGIS). Decides per-figure whether to produce reproducible code-generated plots/maps or structured prompts for external image-generation models (nano banana, ChatGPT…

not rated 103 4mo ago A 103 tokens

paper-plan

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Produces a detailed, venue-aware paper outline from all available upstream artifacts (RESEARCHPLAN, lit review, idea report, refined proposal, experiment plan/results, narrative report). Creates section-by-section plan with word budgets, claim-evidence matrix, figure/table plan, and citation scaffolding. Uses journal…

not rated 103 4mo ago A 71 tokens

paper-review-loop

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Reviews the manuscript produced by paper-draft (in output/manuscript/) as a demanding IJGIS / ISPRS JPRS reviewer-editor, cross-checks it against output/PAPERPLAN.md and its evidence artifacts, then revises it into a stronger draft. Produces a reviewed manuscript, a revised manuscript, a structured review report, a…

not rated 103 4mo ago A 149 tokens

GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Full paper writing pipeline. Orchestrates paper-plan → paper-figure-generate → paper-draft → paper-review-loop → paper-covert to go from upstream research artifacts to a polished, submission-ready manuscript package (Markdown → LaTeX → PDF + DOCX). Use when user says "write paper pipeline", "paper writing", or wants…

not rated 103 4mo ago A 80 tokens

research-refine

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Turn a vague research direction into a problem-anchored, elegant, frontier-aware, implementation-oriented method plan via iterative GPT-5.4 review. Use when the user says "refine my approach", "decompose this problem", "refine research plan", or wants a concrete research method that stays simple, focused, and…

not rated 103 4mo ago A 83 tokens

spatial-analysis

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude Code

Guideline-driven spatial analysis skill. Given a research question and data context, provides decision frameworks for selecting appropriate spatial methods, diagnostics, and interpretation strategies. Adapts to available data, spatial units, and analytical objectives — Claude Code determines the optimal workflow. Use…

not rated 103 4mo ago A 98 tokens

submit-check

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Validates a manuscript against target journal requirements before submission. Checks word count, section structure, figure/table count, reference format, and geo-specific reporting standards. Writes a PASS/FAIL checklist report to output/reports/.

not rated 103 4mo ago A 46 tokens

training-check

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GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Monitors running spatial experiments. Checks output files, log files, and process status. Categorizes results as OK, STALLED, FAILED, or COMPLETE. Fires alerts by appending to output/PROJNOTES.md. Run every 15 minutes during Stage 3 of research-pipeline.

not rated 103 4mo ago A 62 tokens

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