Agent Catalog

Sisyphus Academica has 20+ agents organized into 5 groups. Each is a single Markdown file with frontmatter configuration.

Orchestrator

Agent	File	Role
Research Director	`orchestrator/research-director.md`	Conducts the full 10-phase pipeline. Deploys subagents, collects results, loops on failure. Never writes — only commands.

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

Agent	File	Thinking Mode
The Contrarian	`novelty-engines/contrarian.md`	Inverts field claims → 10 counter-hypotheses
The Cross-Pollinator	`novelty-engines/cross-pollinator.md`	Imports solutions from 15 distant fields
The Assumption Excavator	`novelty-engines/assumption-excavator.md`	Finds unstated assumptions, tests if false
The Counterfactual Generator	`novelty-engines/counterfactual-generator.md`	Rewrites field history without key papers
The Paradox Sifter	`novelty-engines/paradox-sifter.md`	Cross-references "Limitations" sections for contradictions
The Heretic	`novelty-engines/heretic.md`	Crown jewel — generates 50 wild hypotheses from title+abstract alone

Persona	File	Focus
Theorist	`reviewers/theorist.md`	Formal proofs, mathematical rigor
Empiricist	`reviewers/empiricist.md`	Experimental design, baselines
Pragmatist	`reviewers/pragmatist.md`	Practical applicability
Skeptic	`reviewers/skeptic.md`	"Your results are wrong" — demands proof
Historian	`reviewers/historian.md`	Prior art, citation accuracy
Methodologist	`reviewers/methodologist.md`	Statistical correctness
Ethicist	`reviewers/ethicist.md`	Societal implications
Competitor	`reviewers/competitor.md`	Novelty relative to existing work
Student	`reviewers/student.md`	Clarity and accessibility
Dreamer	`reviewers/dreamer.md`	"What if you went further?"

Skill	File	Purpose
Academic Humanizer	`skills/skill-academic-humanizer.md`	11 academic-specific AI-pattern detection patterns (#31-41)
Humanizer (external)	`~/.config/opencode/skills/humanizer/`	30 general AI-writing patterns (installed via install.sh)