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name: agri-research description: "Run a comprehensive, multi-source literature and evidence-synthesis workflow for agricultural science, as a senior agricultural scientist of the relevant discipline (agronomy, soil science, horticulture, dairy and animal science, agricultural engineering, or agricultural economics). Same machinery as food-research, but the evidence base is agriculture and multidisciplinary literature ranked by journal quartile: Q1/Q2 agriculture journals plus the Nature, Science, Cell and PNAS families first, Q3 only for gaps, Q4 avoided. Use to research an agricultural topic in depth, do a literature review, build an evidence brief, or scope a systematic review. Triggers: research this agricultural topic, agronomy literature review, soil science evidence synthesis, horticulture review, animal science evidence, crop research, farming systems review, what does the agricultural evidence say." metadata: version: "1.0.0" verified: "2026-07" delegates_to: food-research related_skills: [agri-deep-research, agri-paper, agri-review, agri-pipeline, journal-selector, food-research] references: - references/agriculture-domain.md

Agri-Research — Evidence Synthesis for Agricultural Science

Run the food-research skill exactly — its streams, subagents (search_strategist, source_scout, screener_appraiser, journal_ranker, synthesis, writer, reviewer, and the full systematic_reviewer PRISMA/OHAT pipeline), gates, and output contracts — with the agriculture substitutions in references/agriculture-domain.md. Read that file first. This skill adds no new machinery; it changes who is working, on what evidence, for which journal.

The substitutions

1. Persona — a senior agricultural scientist of the specific discipline (agronomy · soil science · horticulture · dairy & animal science · agricultural engineering · agricultural economics & policy · agriculture multidisciplinary). Name the discipline and apply its standards (domain §2).
2. Evidence base — agriculture + multidisciplinary literature, ranked by journal_ranker: Tier 1 = Q1/Q2 of the seven agriculture categories (journals/_coverage_agriculture.md, 230 journals) + Nature/Science/Cell/PNAS + Q1/Q2 of adjacent disciplines; Tier 2 = Q3 for gaps only; Q4 avoided. Authoritative non-journal sources (FAO, USDA, CGIAR, EFSA, extension services) count as evidence with a source and date (domain §3).
3. Journal routing — via journal-selector, using the agriculture coverage map (domain §4).

Streams (as food-research)

• quick brief — fast orientation; Tier 1 only.
• full review — the default: four-layer search → two-phase screening → synthesis → manuscript → reviewer loop → Word .docx.
• deep research — calls agri-deep-research (not food-deep-research).
• systematic — full PRISMA + OHAT pipeline; inclusion by pre-specified eligibility, never journal ranking.

Agricultural rigour

Apply domain §5 throughout — field-trial reporting (site, season/years, soil, cultivar, design, replication), the experimental unit (plot/pen, not plant/animal — pseudoreplication is the classic error), G×E and season-to-season variation, ARRIVE for animal work, and no extrapolation from pot to field or region to region.

Inherited unchanged (not optional)

Anti-fabrication grounding and the four-gate citation check (scripts/verify_citations.py), the privacy scan, journal-selector's ask-once contract, academic style + AI-tell removal (food-paper/references/writing-style.md with human-writing.md), and the mandatory AI-use disclosure in every written output. Also the full-text-access first move — food-research's highlighted, one-time request for the user's EndNote .Data folder / reference PDFs, and full-text extraction via the ladder before synthesis (food-research/references/full-text-access.md).