sota-researcher

name: sota-researcher description: Search for authoritative materials, academic literature, expert shares, and high-quality blogs to summarize state-of-the-art (SOTA) practices for any given topic. Use when the user needs a comprehensive, high-signal overview of the latest advancements, benchmarks, or engineering standards.

SOTA Researcher

This skill provides a systematic workflow for discovering, acquiring, and synthesizing the state-of-the-art (SOTA) in any domain.

Research Workflow

Follow this multi-stage process to ensure high-signal results:

1. Broad Discovery: Perform a broad google_web_search to identify top-tier sources, key papers, and influential blogs.
2. Authority Filtering: Focus on high-authority domains (e.g., arxiv.org, nature.com, blog.google, engineering.fb.com, medium.com from verified experts).
3. Content Acquisition:
   • Use web_fetch to extract clean content from high-quality URLs.
   • Use chrome-devtools if the site has a complex paywall or requires JavaScript rendering.
   • Save the raw content to research/sources/ using the save_source.py script to ensure a persistent local library.
4. Deep Extraction: Read the locally saved sources to extract detailed methodology, benchmarks, and "lessons learned."
5. Library Context: For software-related topics, use context7 (resolve-library-id followed by query-docs) to get the latest official documentation.
6. Synthesis: Summarize the findings into a "SOTA Report" using the provided structure.

Selecting Authoritative Sources

Prioritize sources in this order:

• Academic: arxiv.org, scholar.google.com, nature.com, acm.org.
• Corporate Engineering Blogs: Google AI, Meta Engineering, Netflix Tech Blog, OpenAI Blog.
• Expert Shares: High-signal Medium articles, GitHub repositories with significant stars/activity, or Substack newsletters from recognized industry leaders.

SOTA Report Structure

Every report must include:

1. Executive Summary: A 1-2 sentence high-level overview.
2. Current State (SOTA): The latest benchmarks, architectural patterns, or scientific consensus.
3. Key Technologies/Frameworks: The tools currently leading the field.
4. Expert Consensus & Trends: Observations from high-quality blogs and industry leaders.
5. Actionable Recommendations: Clear next steps based on the research.
6. Sources & Citations: Direct links to the primary materials.

Tips for High-Signal Searching

• Use specific keywords like "state of the art", "SOTA", "2025 benchmark", "best practices", "engineering blog".
• Use site: operators to narrow down to top domains (e.g., site:arxiv.org [topic]).
• For software, search for the latest version and its breaking changes or "SOTA usage."