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Research Field Onboarding

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Description

A reusable research-onboarding skill for **Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, and other instruction-following agents**.

Installation

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open the source below and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

README

Field Onboarding

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Left: a general assistant answers a beginner's question about topological photonics with twelve unexplained terms. Right: Field Onboarding first asks the reader to mark four prerequisites as used it, learned it, or new.

A reusable research-onboarding skill for **ChatGPT, Codex, and other instruction-following agents**. It guides researchers into unfamiliar scientific fields step by step and decodes dense papers, abstracts, talks, figure captions, and referee comments without assuming specialist knowledge too early.

**Primary contributors:** LI Junxiang and Ziyan Zhou (Anna)

Quick start — try it in under a minute

Claude Code

One command, installs to `~/.claude/skills/`:

npx skills add ljx-chase/research-field-onboarding -g

Or manually:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r field-onboarding ~/.claude/skills/field-onboarding

Drop the `-g` (or use `.claude/skills/`) to scope it to one project instead.

Claude apps (claude.ai, Desktop, Cowork)

Desktop and cloud sessions do not read `~/.claude/skills/`. Enable the skill for your claude.ai account instead — Customize in the Desktop sidebar, or the skills settings on claude.ai.

ChatGPT Skills / Codex / other agents

**ChatGPT:** package the `field-onboarding/` directory as a skill (or install the release artifact if one is published), then try: