Research Report Generator

Analyze technical projects/papers and produce comprehensive reports with PDF export.

Modes

Lite Mode (default)

• Literature search + paper analysis
• Code reading (local or remote)
• Multi-iteration report writing
• PDF generation via md2pdf skill
• No environment setup or experiment runs

Full Mode

• Everything in lite mode +
• Conda/virtualenv setup
• Dependency installation
• Experiment execution
• Result analysis

Usage

bash {baseDir}/scripts/research-report.sh 
  --topic "Spatial Forcing" 
  --mode lite 
  --iterations 3 
  --output both

Parameters

Workflow

Phase 1: Discovery

1. Search arXiv + project pages
2. Fetch related papers (citations + references)
3. Identify key technologies and dependencies

Phase 2: Analysis

1. Read source code (if --project-path provided)
2. Analyze architecture from docs/code
3. Map technology stack

Phase 3: Report Writing (× iterations)

1. Draft outline
2. Write sections iteratively
3. Add diagrams (Mermaid/ASCII)
4. Refine explanations

Phase 4: Export (Full mode only)

1. Setup conda env
2. Install dependencies
3. Run experiments
4. Append results to report

Phase 5: PDF Generation

1. Call md2pdf skill
2. Send to user via Telegram

Output Structure

<workspace>/
├── reports/
│   ├── <topic>_report_v1.md
│   ├── <topic>_report_v2.md
│   ├── <topic>_report_final.md
│   └── <topic>_report_final.pdf
├── memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md (appended)
└── logs/<topic>_research.log

Report Template

The generated report follows this structure:

1. Executive Summary - 100-word overview
2. Motivation - Problem statement + why it matters
3. Background - Prerequisites explained intuitively
4. Core Method - Technical details with analogies
5. Code Analysis - Key files walkthrough
6. Experiments - Setup + results (full mode)
7. Troubleshooting - Common issues + fixes
8. References - Papers + repos + docs

Dependencies

Required: - pandoc (for PDF export) - texlive-xetex (CJK + math support)

Full mode only: - conda/miniconda - CUDA toolkit (if GPU experiments)

Integration

This skill automatically: - Uses md2pdf skill for PDF conversion - Appends to memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md - Creates structured report directory

Examples

Lite mode, 5 iterations:

research-report --topic "VGGT" --iterations 5 --mode lite

Full mode with local code:

research-report --topic "Spatial Forcing" 
  --project-path ~/Spatial-Forcing/openvla-SF 
  --mode full 
  --iterations 3

PDF only output:

research-report --topic "OpenVLA" --output pdf

Troubleshooting