Agent Catalog

Sisyphus Academica has 20+ agents organized into 5 groups.

Orchestrator

Agent	Role
Research Director	Conducts the full 10-phase pipeline. Deploys subagents, collects results, loops on failure.

Subagents (Pipeline)

Agent	Role
Literature Scout	Multi-source literature search (arXiv, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, OpenAlex)
Gap Analyzer	Identifies genuine research gaps from the literature corpus
Methodology Designer	Recommends statistical tests, power analysis, confound controls
Data Engineer	Writes analysis code, generates publication-ready figures
Writer	Writes paper sections with 41 Humanizer patterns as hard constraints
Verifier	3-module verification: citations, statistics, AI-patterns
Style Auditor	Final Humanizer certification gate
Formatter	LaTeX template matching, BibTeX, PDF compilation

Novelty Engines

Also available as 17 standalone portable skills under the skills/ directory — install via npx skills add argahv/sisyphus-academica.

Agent	Approach
Contrarian	Inverts field claims → 10 counter-hypotheses
Cross-Pollinator	Imports solutions from 15 distant fields
Assumption Excavator	Finds unstated assumptions, tests if false
Counterfactual Generator	Rewrites field history without key papers
Paradox Sifter	Cross-references Limitations sections for contradictions
Heretic	Crown jewel. 50 wild hypotheses from title+abstract alone.

Adversarial Reviewers

Standalone versions also in skills/reviewers/.

Persona	Focus	Typical Critique
Theorist	Formal proofs, mathematical rigor	“Where’s the formal proof?”
Empiricist	Experimental design, baselines	“Your baseline is wrong”
Pragmatist	Practical applicability	“Does this matter in practice?”
Skeptic	Default: results are wrong	“Show me error bars”
Historian	Prior art, citation accuracy	“This was done in 1972”
Methodologist	Statistical methodology	“Your test assumes normality”
Ethicist	Societal implications	“What are the downsides?”
Competitor	Novelty relative to existing work	“Minor mod of our 2023 paper”
Student	Clarity and accessibility	“I don’t understand section 3”
Dreamer	“What if you went further?”	“You stopped too early”

Skills (Portable)

The skills/ directory contains 17 standalone SKILL.md files. Install with a single command:

npx skills add argahv/sisyphus-academica

Invoke in any agent:

/contrarian "The claim: 'Attention is all you need'"
/cross-pollinator "Problem: How to reduce LLM hallucination"
/heretic "Paper: 'Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models'"