Dev Research Scout

Targeted audit 2026-09-11: selected source/API and evidence-contract corrections were verified; the frontmatter validation date and other source-registry dates are not a blanket September freshness claim. Recheck unverified source access and volatile facts when using them.

Scans high-signal research sources for methods, frameworks, and ideas worth applying to your own work, and converts the top finds into idea cards with how-to-apply recipes, evidence quality grades, and reproducibility notes.

Supported sources: arXiv, Hugging Face Papers, Semantic Scholar, Papers with Code (archive only — shut down Jul 2025), conference proceedings (NeurIPS / ICML / ICLR / ACL / EMNLP / KDD), industry research blogs (Anthropic / OpenAI / DeepMind / Google Research / Meta AI / Microsoft Research / Apple ML), and curator newsletters (Lilian Weng, Sebastian Raschka, Eugene Yan, Latent Space, Simon Willison, The Batch, Import AI, Interconnects / Nathan Lambert, Davis Summarizes Papers / Davis Blalock).

For a concrete startup area, workflow or domain-specific technical question, use specialist-source-routing.md. It routes PMC, NIH ExPORTER, Free Law Project, USPTO, Ubuntu IRC, PhilPapers, Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia and YouTube alongside the existing GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange owners. These are conditional evidence or product-input sources; they do not expand this skill's default method-source enum or establish commercial demand.

Output is a generative toolkit, not a landscape report: a pattern catalog (methods worth stealing, with how-to-apply), an anti-pattern catalog (research traps — irreproducibility, benchmark gaming, hype), and recipes (extraction, validation-before-adoption, kill criteria).

Key distinction from sibling scouts:

• This skill = research-grade idea mining (papers + research blogs + curated synthesis)
• research-painpoint-scanner = community-pain mining (Reddit / HN / GitHub Issues / G2 / Stack Overflow)
• research-arxiv-scout = arXiv-only deep triage with category taxonomy and attribution; specialist downstream
• research-git = public GitHub repo research for skills, practices, and code patterns (separate concern)

Use this skill when the question is "what methods or frameworks are worth stealing from recent research?" — escalate to research-arxiv-scout for arXiv-only work where category taxonomy and attribution matter most.